The U.S. Army Audit Agency is currently accepting applications for a GS-511-13 Senior Auditor. Applications will be accepted until 1 February 2021 under the Direct Hire Authority (DHA) for FM Experts.
Qualified applicants must meet the Office of Personnel Management’s eligibility and qualification criteria for GS-0511-13 Auditor positions including education requirements and demonstration of at least one year of specialized audit experience at the GS-12 level. Qualified candidates will be paneled against the Agency's competency-based recruitment criteria (below) for consideration by selecting officials.
Possible Duty Locations:
- Huntsville, Alabama
- Fort Carson, Colorado
- Rock Island, Illinois
- Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
- Fort Meade, Maryland
- Detroit, Michigan
- Saint Louis, Missouri
- Fort Bragg, North Carolina
- Fort Bliss, Texas
- San Antonio, Texas
- Fort Belvoir, Virginia
- Fort Eustis, Virginia
- Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington
PCS is NOT authorized.
Interested applicants should submit their transcripts, resume, last SF50 and last performance appraisal to usarmy.pentagon.hqda-aaa.mbx.recruiting@mail.mil by 1 February 2021. Resumes must clearly outline your experience and include your position title, series, grade and dates of service.
COMPETENCY‐BASED RECRUITING
GS‐0511‐13 Senior Auditor (Auditor‐In‐Charge)
The following competencies are a product of a series of agency efforts by employees and subject matter experts to identify the critical knowledge and skills to successfully perform in the position of Auditor, GS‐ 0511‐13. Deploying a competency‐based recruiting approach, these competencies will be reviewed and assessed through a combination of tools including USA Staffing, internal agency evaluation criteria, and standardized interview and reference checking questions to select the best qualified and most highly competent candidates. Applicants should address these competencies where appropriate and to a fitting extent in their resume and application materials.
Leadership Competencies (Weight: 20%)
1. Leadership: Interacts with others to influence, motivate, and challenge them.
2. Team Building: Inspires, motivates, and guides others towards goal accomplishments. Consistently develops and sustains cooperative working relationships. Encourages and facilitates cooperative working relationships. Encourages and facilitates cooperation within the organization and with customer groups. Fosters commitment, team spirit, pride, trust. Develops leadership in others through coaching, mentoring, rewarding and guiding employees.
3. Teaching Others: Helps others learn through formal or informal methods; identifies training needs; provides constructive feedback; coaches others on how to perform tasks; acts as a mentor.
4. Self‐Management: Sets well‐defined and realistic personal goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve goals; demonstrates responsible behavior.
Technical Competencies (Weight: 40%)
1. Elements of Finding and Recommendation: Ability to fully develop and identify condition (problem or material weakness), root cause, effect, and recommendations addressed to the appropriate activity that can fix the problem.
2. Working Papers: Knowledge of generally accepted government auditing standards for working papers. This includes developing relevant purpose and scope which relate to an objective; identifying and documenting credible sources; developing complete, organized, clear, and logical results; and developing succinct and supportable conclusions. Ability to appropriately cross‐reference to source documents and reports and sufficiently address reviewer comments.
3. Audit Execution: Knowledge of audit execution procedures (establish and answer audit objectives; reasonably measure the extent and significance of potential weaknesses; develop information and data needed for the audit report; and summarize the overall results of audit) and their use in financial and performance audits.
4. Audit Programs: Knowledge of principles used in developing audit programs for audit execution during financial and performance audits (i.e., steps/tests designed to measure condition, criteria, cause, effect; and to develop recommendations and estimated time requirements).
5. Audit Reporting: Ability to incorporate sufficient details to support full condition, cause, effect, conclusions, and recommendations. Application of appropriate report format with required administrative information. Appropriate cross‐referencing to working papers and final report package.
6. Critical Thinking: Skilled interpretation and evaluation of observations, communications, information, and argumentation to come to a reasonable conclusion. Includes asking questions, analyzing assumptions and bias, avoiding emotional reasoning, distinguishing between fact and opinion, and considering other interpretations.
Professional Competencies (Weight: 20%)
1. Diligence: Thorough and conscientious when performing work, such as editing; catching the avoidable; including complete, relevant, and accurate data; meeting milestones; and prioritizing resources.
2. Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems; uses sound reasoning to arrive at conclusions. Finds alternative solutions to complex problems. Distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical judgments. Willingness to confront problems and resolve them timely.
3. Teamwork: Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride trust and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals.
4. Written Communication: Expresses facts and ideas in writing in a clear, convincing and organized manner.
5. Oral Communication: Comfort with public speaking. Ability to make clear and convincing oral presentations to individuals or groups using appropriate diction (choice and pronunciation of words). Ability to facilitate an open exchange of ideas and fosters an atmosphere of open communication.
6. Reasoning: Discovers or selects rules, principles, or relationships between facts and other information.
7. Decision Making: Specifies goals and obstacles to achieving those goals, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses the best alternative in order to make a determination, draw conclusions, or solve a problem.
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