Summary The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) leads the development, negotiation, and presentation of the National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget on behalf of the Director of National Intelligence to the President and the Congress. The CFO's three main responsibilities include resource management (budget analysis, formulation, justification, and execution), performance planning and evaluation, and financial management improvement. Responsibilities Lead the examination and analysis of budget requests and execution data to ensure accuracy and consistency with National and Intelligence Community (IC) strategic priorities, compliance with guidance, regulations, laws, and usage of sound budgeting and financial management practices. Interface and collaborate with the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) mission owners, National Intelligence Managers, and/or IC functional oversight offices to determine resource needs to satisfy priority requirements. Provide expert advice and guidance to mission owners regarding the budget process, potential resource decisions, and strategies to satisfy resource needs. Develop deep expertise in assigned portfolio to inform resource decisions, understand mission owner objectives, and the mission impacts of program decisions. Initiate, develop, and conduct in-depth analysis of IC budget trends and issues. Apply critical thinking to devise and evaluate alternative strategies and innovative solutions for key program and budget issues throughout the budget process. Interface and collaborate with the IC component Resource Managers, internal and external organization staffs to ensure program and budget recommendations to IC and Department of Defense (DoD) senior leadership are fully coordinated and satisfy priority requirements. Lead the review, editing, coordination and production processes for budget justification materials to ensure timely delivery to Congress, and monitor and summarize IC component Congressional budget actions and provide substantive input for appeals to Congressional budget markups. Review and provide substantive input to IC and DoD Congressional budget testimony, responses to Congressional queries, Questions for the Record, Congressionally Directed Actions, and letters, memoranda and reports regarding program, budget and execution issues. Plan and oversee the conduct of IC component formal budget execution reviews. Assess program plans for under executing resources and develop strategies for realignment to other IC priorities. Provide expert advice and guidance in support of IC component resource management and/or budget justification process improvement efforts. Requirements Conditions of Employment Must be a current permanent ODNI employee. OR Must be a current permanent Federal employee Must have supervisory approval to apply to the Joint Duty Assignment. Must be currently at the grade level of the detail. No Temporary Promotion Opportunity The program does not apply to members of the Military service or contractors. Qualifications Mandatory Requirements: Expert knowledge of budget formulation, programming, and budget execution processes for IC programs, a defense agency, or a military service. Superior ability to apply analytic, diagnostic, and qualitative techniques, conduct independent research, filter and synthesize data sufficient to identify and evaluate alternatives and produce clear, logical, and concise products and recommendations to resolve complex, interrelated program and budgetary problems and issues. Superior organizational and interpersonal skills, specifically, the ability to plan strategically and manage competing priorities, the ability to negotiate, build consensus, and work effectively in a collaborative environment, and the ability to establish and maintain professional networks across all levels of management both internal and external. Superior oral and written communication skills. Expert knowledge of the IC, DoD, Office of Management and Budget, and Congressional budget processes and procedures. Demonstration of progressively responsible experience in Resource Management or Financial Management fields within the DoD, IC, other Government Agency or Private industry equivalent to a GS-14 in the normal line of progression. Bachelor's Degree. Education Mandatory Requirement: Bachelor's Degree Additional Information Job Interview Travel: Candidates from outside the Washington, D.C. area may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview. Salary Determination: A current Federal Government employee, selected for a detail, will be assigned to the position at their current grade and salary. Other Information REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to otherwise qualified applicants with disabilities. IF YOU NEED A REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Reasonable Accommodation Office Representative by classified email at DNIDiversityWMA@cia.ic.gov, by unclassified email at DNIDRA@dni.gov, by telephone at 703-275-3900 or by FAX at 703-275-1217. Your request for reasonable accommodation will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION TO THE EEOD EMAIL ADDRESS. THIS EMAIL IS FOR REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS ONLY. The ODNI is an equal opportunity employer and abides by applicable employment laws and regulations.
