Deputy Controller

Deputy Controller

Department: Department of Justice

Location(s): Washington, District of Columbia

Salary Range: $169279 - $197200 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is located in the Criminal Division's Finance Group (FG) and serves under the direct supervision of the Controller. The Finance Group is responsible for the overall financial management, monitoring, and reporting, for all 17 sections of the Criminal Division. The Finance Group works to ensure policy compliance, execute budget and financial initiatives, and strategically manage the Division's fiscal resources.

Major Duties:

• As Deputy Controller, you will: Serve as a key advisor and consultant to the Controller in the planning and administration of the Division's financial and budget execution functions. Provide the administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing Finance Group's expansive portfolio of work. Communicate the strategic plan, mission, vision, and values of Division and Finance Group leadership and ensure their integration into the unit's strategies, objectives, work plans, deliverables, and services. Coordinate and formulate current and long-range financial planning and analysis data, including forecasts. Analyze and recommend solutions to current and anticipated budget execution issues and challenges involving diverse programmatic requirements. Lead teams in creating, analyzing, and presenting various reports including obligation rates, accounting data, expenditures, travel data, and personnel expenses. Participate in discussions and decisions on requests for new funding, change in type of funding, and reprogramming. Supervise the review and implementation of Division, Agency, and Federal policies and regulations to ensure compliance and consistently produce clean audit results. Provide draft policy and written technical guidance to be issued as regulations, guides, or instructions. Oversee all required reporting and auditing as required. Use initiative, judgement, and originality to research and interpret national policy and legislation, keep abreast of new developments in technology, and recommend changes to FG methods and procedures accordingly. Represent Finance Group interests at Departmental working groups, task forces, and expert panels on special projects or studies of considerable scope and depth critical to the resolution of finance issues.

Qualifications: To qualify at the GS-15 level, applicants must have one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-14 federal grade level. Examples of specialized experience include: providing short and long-range finance, accounting, and budgetary guidance to organizational leadership; establishing, analyzing, and evaluating financial operating plans for current and future years; reviewing and implementing changes in federal laws, regulations, procedures, and other guidance to revise organizational guidance and policies; and negotiating in the resolution of potentially controversial finance issues. Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for consideration by the closing date of this announcement.

How to Apply: To apply for this position, you must provide a complete application package which includes the assessment questionnaire and the required documents indicated below. The application package must be received by 11:59 PM, Eastern Time, on 03/13/2026. We recommend that you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the application process. You may preview the assessment questionnaire by clicking https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12890443. To begin the process, click the Apply Online button to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the prompts to complete the assessment questionnaire. Please ensure you click the "Submit My Answers" button at the end of the process. To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account, https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/application/status, select the Application Status link and then select the More Information link for this position. The Details page will display the status of your application, the documentation received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent related to this application. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click Update Application in the vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be incomplete. Reasonable Accommodation Statement: Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Human Resources team at CRM.RA@usdoj.gov. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Application Deadline: 2026-03-13