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Deputy Assistant Secretary
Department of Education - Agency Wide · Posted 54 days ago
About the Role
The mission of the Office of Finance and Operations (OFO) is to transform the Department of Education (ED) into a high-performance, customer-focused organization by providing services to our customers that help them do a better job of managing their people, processes, and overall strategy. This position may be detailed to another Federal agency.
What You'll Do
- →Provides senior executive leadership for OFM and oversees Department-wide financial operations, including accounting, financial reporting, payment integrity, cash management, funds control, financial transactions, and fiscal accountability.
- →Advises the Chief Financial Officer and senior Department leadership on financial management risks, audit issues, internal controls, financial reporting, funds management, and fiscal integrity matters.
- →Builds a culture of accuracy, accountability, service, audit readiness, and continuous improvement.
- →Ensures OFM has appropriate workforce planning, succession planning, training, and technical expertise to meet the Department's financial management responsibilities and accounting operations.
- →Serves as the senior executive responsible for coordinating the Department's annual financial statement audit and related audit readiness activities.
- →Leads engagements with independent auditors, the Education Office of Inspector General (OIG), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), U.S.
- →Department of Treasury (Treasury), the U.S.
- →Government Accountability Office, and other oversight entities on financial audit matters.
- →Coordinates and collaborates with other Department components to ensure independent auditor requests are completed accurately and timely and that corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
- →Leads Department-wide efforts to strengthen fiscal integrity, internal controls, payment integrity, and financial accountability, aligned with broad requirements of a CFO Act agency.
- →Oversees financial control activities related to funds control, obligations, outlays, reconciliations, grant and contract payments, improper payments, and financial reporting.
- →Ensures the Department maintains effective internal controls over financial reporting and financial operations.
- →Supports compliance with federal internal control requirements, including OMB Circular A-123, FMFIA, and related financial management such as guided by the Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200), FFMIA, and other payment integrity requirements, such as required by the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA), and the recent Executive Order 14249 (March 2025).
- →Identifies systemic risks and recommends corrective actions to reduce fraud, waste, abuse, improper payments, reporting errors, and operational weaknesses.
Requirements
- ✓- One year probationary period, unless excepted by regulation. - U.S.
- ✓Citizenship - Financial disclosure statement, OGE-278. - Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. - Relocation expenses will NOT be paid. - Registration with the Selective Service (if applicable).
- ✓Males born after 12-31-1959 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service. - All initial appointments to an SES position are contingent on approval from OPM's Qualification Review Board.
- ✓This position is in the Accounting Series, 0510.
- ✓In addition to the minimum qualification requirements above, applicants must also meet the basic education requirement established by the U.S.
- ✓Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
- ✓To qualify, applicants must meet one of the following: A.
- ✓Degree: accounting; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting.
- ✓The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law.
- ✓(The term "accounting" means "accounting and/or auditing" in this standard.
- ✓Similarly, "accountant" should be interpreted, generally, as "accountant and/or auditor.") OR B.
- ✓Combination of education and experience: at least four (4) years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge.
- ✓The applicant's background must also include one of the following: Twenty-four semester (24) hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 5c79d0a4-c130-40a0-99ff-7aa9d43a6349
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