Chief Financial Management Specialist

This position serves as a Chief Financial Management Specialist in the Program Integrity Office (PIO) within the Office of Business Oversight (OBO). Incumbent provides team leadership, project direction, and technical expertise to increase fraud risk mitigation while promoting compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA). The initial application review cut-off for this job announcement is 50 applications. The first 50 applications received will be considered first. Applications received after the initial cut-off number (50 applications) may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. If management requests additional certificates, applicants will continue to be reviewed in groups of 50 in the order they applied. Note: Submitting multiple applications will change the order in which your application is reviewed. Major Duties: Develop working papers and sampling plans in preparation for reviews. Provide leadership, mentoring, guidance, and recommend training to staff. Identify discrepancies and recommend corrective action to collect overpayments. Utilize data analytics to detect patterns and anomalies indicative of fraudulent activities. Continuously monitor and update analytical tools and methodologies to stay ahead of emerging fraud trends. Coordinate with program officials in field stations, network offices, program offices, and VA Central Office (VACO). Plan work to be accomplished to include setting goals, deadlines, and priorities to ensure completion of the mission. Review project results to ensure findings and recommendations for improvement are substantive, logical, and within scope. Develop creative solutions to problems when laws and regulations are highly interpretive, nonexistent, obscure, or conflicting. Serve as a team supervisor for senior auditors and financial management specialists performing reviews of varied and complex issues associated with identifying Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA). Work Schedule: Monday • Friday, 8:00am • 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Ad-hoc, as determined by the agency policy. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: PD000510 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/25/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to some former Federal employees applying for reinstatement, as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. See the Required Document section below for more information regarding the SF-50s needed to verify time-in-grade. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Designing and leading audit reviews of healthcare programs. Using data analytics to detect or prevent fraud, waste, abuse, overpayments and other payment errors. Performing administrative and personnel management functions for staff, such as time and attendance, awards, position description updates, or participation in hiring actions. Coordinating correspondence and communication with officials across multiple organizational levels, such as field offices, regional offices, and headquarters, in connection with audit or review activities. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: Resume must include job title and employer name, number of hours worked per week, start and end dates (including month and year), list of duties and responsibilities for each position held. In addition, if the experience was a federal position, you must list series and grade for each position held. Failure to include this information may result in an ineligible rating. A full year of work is considered to be 40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: This work is principally sedentary but may require the employee to carry light loads or drive a motor vehicle. No special physical effort or ability is required to conduct this work. Travel is required. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be found well qualified, applicants must meet the following qualifications: Directs a team to perform reviews involving varied and complex issues associated with identifying and preventing and recovering fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA). Develops reports for presentation to senior management and consistently briefs results at the GS-15 and SES level. Serves as a technical expert in the area of FWA providing advice to management and agency officials in matters pertaining to FWA. Utilizes data analytics to detect patterns and anomalies indicative of fraudulent activities. Develops new review approaches where no precedents exist, develops creative solutions to controversial problems, and resolves issues where governing laws and regulations are highly interpretive or where procedures are nonexistent, obscure, or conflicting. Reviews project results and review work to ensure findings are substantive, logical, and within scope and recommendations for improvement are fully developed and supported. . Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/. Local Commuting Area: The local commuting area for this position is defined as a radius of 50 miles from Austin, TX. This includes all locations that fall within a 50 mile driving distance from 8000 Metropolis Dr, Bldg B, Austin TX 78744 Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 You may be required to serve a probationary period Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a one year probationary period or two year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your one year probationary period or two year trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest. There is no educational substitution at this grade level.