Other Agencies and Independent Organizations

Financial Resource Manager

Bethesda, Maryland Full time

Financial Resource Manager

Department: Other Agencies and Independent Organizations

Location(s): Bethesda, Maryland

Salary Range: $169279 - $197200 Per Year

Job Summary: Lead proactive counterintelligence and security activities across the United States government, integrating the instruments of national power to detect, report, deter, disrupt, investigate, exploit, and defeat foreign intelligence threats.

Major Duties:

  • Lead the planning, preparation, justification, administration, analysis, forecasting, and monitoring of budget/financial information to ensure cost­ effective support of Intelligence Community (IC) organizations and programs; oversee budget/financial data analysis and the assessment of financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems. Lead the collection, research, and analysis of comprehensive and substantive financial information that includes budget, accounting, and financial reporting information to develop budget testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership and develop IC guidance on the preparation of resource requests and realignments or reprogramming to the DNI and Congress. May involve supporting major re-allocation of staffing, funds, or other resources. Lead the development of complex financial analyses and provide expert advice and recommendations to senior IC customers in the context of their operations and requirements. Lead the development of complex financial analyses and provide expert advice and recommendations to senior IC customers in the context of their operations and requirements. Provide expert advice to other financial or budget experts throughout the ODNI or other agencies on issues that involve applying or tailoring methods and procedures developed by the employee to a variety of situations. Lead a team of professional staff and assess performance, collaborate and oversee goal setting, and provide feedback on personal development.

Qualifications: FREE RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS All applicants must answer the following four short, free response essay questions. The responses cannot exceed 200 words per question. By submitting your responses to the following questions, you certify that you are using your own words and did not use a consultant or AI (such as a large language model [LLM]). How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience. In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes. How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you and explain how you would help implement them if hired. How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position. Expert knowledge of the principles, concepts, laws, and regulations of financial administration, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to generate new concepts and methodologies or to theorize, plan, and direct entire financial, budgeting, accounting, or auditing systems for broad, emerging, or similarly critical large-scale ODNl-wide programs of national or international scope where no precedents exist. Superior ability to serve as expert and consultant' to top agency management officials and customers, in context of operation requirements bases on financial analysis and recommends possible courses of action. Problems are frequently stubborn due to such matters as conflicting funding priorities, economic interests, public interests, constitutional protections, or equivalent concerns. Superior ability to conduct accounting, and financial reporting information; expert knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems. Superior knowledge of departmental or agency financial management policy, regulations, and financial systems and superior ability to make sound and independent judgment in order to resolve complex financial problems.

How to Apply: We encourage you to read the entire announcement prior to submitting your application. In order to be considered, you must apply via USAJOBS. The ODNI will not accept emailed applications. Your application must be received by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of this announcement. Applications received after the closing date will NOT be eligible for consideration. All attachments should be in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format. Do not include the following types of information in your profile or resume: Classified or government sensitive information Social Security Number (SSN) Photos of yourself Personal information such as age, gender, religious affiliation, etc. Encrypted and digitally signed documents

Application Deadline: 2026-05-07