MWEOC Accountant
Accountant
Department of Homeland Security-Federal Emergency Management Agency
Summary
In this position you will work as a member of the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC), Finance and Administration Division, Finance Branch. MWEOC is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The ideal candidate for this position will possess exceptional analytical skills and has experience creating and maintaining visualization reports or dashboards, reconciling financial data, and preparing complex payroll reports and/or financial forecasts.
Duties
All MWEOC staff have emergency assignments and are considered deployed in place. Exercises and activations are planned and unplanned, and may require long hours, nights, weekends and holidays.
All MWEOC employees are: (1) required to use a government-issued electronic device (to include cellular phones); (2) subject to recall during emergency situations; and (3) required to perform work in locations both above and below ground.
What will I do in this position if hired?
In this position, you will create and maintain visualization reports or dashboards, reconcile financial data, and prepare complex payroll reports and/or financial forecasts. Typical assignments include:
- Performing complex salary and benefit (S&B) analysis and preparing detailed cost projections.
- Interpreting accounting reports, statements, and data which point out trends, identifying deviations from standards and/or plans, and projects data into the future.
- Resolving complex accounting problems and providing guidance and assistance to program managers and operating personnel on all matters of financial management and financial operations.
- Validating a variety of accounting data entered into schedules and accounts, making adjustments, and preparing reports.
- Conducting monthly reconciliations with Treasury.
What else do I need to know?
At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/870403800