Duties

As a Auditor GS-0511-11/12/13, your typical work assignments may include the following:

• Leads the development of audit, examination, and/or evaluation plans.
• Adapts the audit, examination, inspection, or evaluation plan to fit special circumstances encountered in an assigned audit, examination, inspection, or evaluation.
• Identifies, analyzes, and researches accounting and auditing issues.
• Prepares audit, inspection, and/or evaluation work papers, interview summaries, and briefing materials covering review findings.
• Tracks and maintains multiple documents essential to the audit/evaluation.
• Meets with internal management officials to brief on findings, explain the significance of conclusions, and justify recommendations

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED
• BACKGROUND SECURITY INVESTIGATION WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ALL NEW HIRES
• APPOINTMENT MAY BE SUBJECT TO A 2 YR TRIAL OR 1 YR PROBATIONARY PERIOD
• VALID STATE-ISSUED DRIVERS LICENSE IS REQUIRED
• SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR MALES BORN AFTER 12/31/1959

Qualifications

Applicants must meet the qualification requirements contained in the OPM Standards . For this position, they are listed below.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

Degree: auditing; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, public administration or accounting.
-OR-
Combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in Performance Auditing, or an equivalent combination of performance auditing experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional auditing knowledge. The applicant's background must also include one of the following:

A certificate as a Certified Internal Auditor or a Certified Public Accountant, obtained through written examination; or

Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in auditing or accounting, e.g., 15 semester hours.

In addition to meeting the Basic Requirement, you must also meet the Minimum Qualifications requirements below.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

GS-11: One (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-9 level in the Federal service that includes: Conducts complex and/or controversial audits in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS) or similar standards; With supervisory review, plans and performs all phases of audits demonstrating thorough knowledge of audit standards and accounting practices; Communicates controversial issues, justifying conclusions reached, and recommending course of action.
-OR-
Successfully completed three (3) years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, if related.
-OR-
A combination of graduate level education and specialized experience when combined together meets 100% of the total requirements for the position.

GS-12: One (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal service that includes: Conducts complex and/or controversial audits in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS) or similar standards; Independently with limited supervisory involvement plans and performs all phases of audits demonstrating thorough knowledge of audit standards and accounting practices; Communicates complex and controversial issues, justifying conclusions reached, and recommending course of action.

GS-13: One (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 level in the Federal service that includes: Conducts complex and/or controversial audits in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS) or similar standards; Independently plans and performs all phases of audits demonstrating thorough knowledge of audit standards and accounting practices; Communicates complex and controversial issues, justifying conclusions reached, and recommending course of action.

Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.

Time-In-Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year (52 weeks) of service at the next lower grade level.

Education

EDUCATION: Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, credit hours, major, and grade-point average or class ranking, degree and date awarded. All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Applicants are responsible for providing documentation that the educational requirements have been met. To qualify based on education you must submit a legible copy of your transcripts. Official transcripts are required upon selection if you qualified based on education.

Education must have been obtained from an accredited or pre-accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.

For further information on creditable education visit:
http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Additional information

Career Transition Assistance Programs: CTAP/ICTAP provides placement assistance to permanent Federal employees who are surplus, displaced, or involuntarily separated. Applicants claiming CTAP/ICTAP eligibility must submit a copy of their most recent performance appraisal, proof of eligibility, and most current SF-50 noting position, grade level, and duty location with their application. To be considered under CTAP/ICTAP, applicants must be well-qualified (i.e., meet the minimum qualification requirements, including any selective placement factors; education, and experience requirements), score at least 85 on the assessment questionnaire, and be able to perform the duties of the position upon entry. For more information visit: http://www.opm.gov/rif/employee_guides/career_transition.asp

Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service .

STATUS CANDIDATES: Consideration will be given to Non-Indian applicants (Status or Reinstatement eligibles) in the absence of a qualified Indian Preference eligible. Applicants not entitled to Indian or Veteran's Preference must be Federal civilian employees with competitive status or former Federal civilian employees with reinstatement eligibility and must submit latest Notification of Personnel Action, SF-50B, as proof.

VETERANS EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ACT (VEOA): Preference eligibles may apply for permanent positions (career or career-conditional appointments) under merit promotion procedures for VEOA appointments; however, veteran's preference is not a factor in these appointments. To be eligible for a VEOA appointment, a veteran must be a preference eligible OR veteran separated after 3 or more years of continuous active service performed under honorable conditions. Applicants must submit a copy of their DD-214 (Member Copy 4) for verification of eligibility. For more information about this program and to determine whether you are eligible, click here .

If you are a veteran with preference eligibility and you are claiming 5-points veterans' preference, you must submit a copy of your DD-214 (Member Copy 4) or other proof of eligibility. If you are claiming 10-point veterans' preference, you must also submit an SF-15, "Application for 10-Point Veterans' Preference" plus the proof required by that form.