COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Crisis1, LLC (www.crisis1.com) is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) dedicated to delivering innovative solutions to federal clients. Founded on a commitment to excellence, Crisis1 provides mission-critical support services to help agencies achieve their goals. With a focus on program management, financial management, and operational support, Crisis1 is a trusted partner in delivering results that matter. Crisis1 has several opportunities for a 5-year contract supporting a federal client in the DC Metro area for accounting, budgeting, operations, and financial reporting.

JOB SUMMARY:

We are seeking a detail-oriented Junior Accountant to assist in financial reporting, internal controls, audit, and general financial operations support. This role is critical in supporting the client by ensuring compliance with federal financial regulations and optimizing financial processes.

QUALIFICATIONS:

The candidate must possess:

• A minimum education requirement of a bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, operations research, management, computer science, or a related discipline.
• A minimum of three (3) years of related work experience.
• Working knowledge of federal financial regulations.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to read, interpret, and comply with management policies, regulations, and directives.
• Ability to work effectively within a group or independently.
• Ability to manage multiple projects or requests simultaneously.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and SharePoint).

Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Work from home

Work Location: Remot

and requirements.

• Provide support on financial system IT General Controls and on recommendations related to audit findings.
• Provide support in cost estimating and with capital planning and investment controls.
• Provide support services to implement the requirements of OMB guidance and othe

new reports and revised structures to meet FPS financial requirements.

• Assist in documenting how to create and populate all FPS financial reports, and train FP

analysis of financial system reports and reporting requirements.

• Provide ongoing expertise in financial policy and procedures, research and analysis

RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:

Key responsibilities:

• Work with Servicing Finance Centers and FPS/ Information Technology (IT) to develop

reports that meet FPS requirements leveraging existing tools to the greatest extent

possible.

• Coordinate with Regional Offices and Headquarter Divisions to distribute reports and

collect data and variance reporting.

• Provide variance analysis and recommendations.
• Provide support services to review, develop, and update financial policies and procedures for FPS related to Federal Government and Accounting regulations, integrating

efficiencies where appropriate.

• Assist in the development and/or update of financial policies and procedures to address

and prevent audit findings and recommendation areas, utilizing plain language.

• Assist in compliance with financial concepts related to Federal IT policies, procedures,

and requirements.

• Provide support on financial system IT General Controls and on recommendations related to audit findings.
• Provide support in cost estimating and with capital planning and investment controls.
• Provide support services to implement the requirements of OMB guidance and other

financial standards, the results achieved on existing or proposed internal controls and
automated tool sets, integrating internal controls into overall financial, and cost and

performance business processes and procedures.

• Provide support to all aspects of OMB A-123 Internal Controls and Improper Payments

Elimination and Recovery Act (IPERA) and Annual Financial Statement Audit, or any
internal FPS Financial Reviews, including process walkthroughs, sampling, testing, and
data analysis support as well as providing recommendations for program or policy

improvements to reach identified targets and remediate weaknesses or findings.

• Provide support in the analysis and correction of data integrity errors associated with

subsidiary-to-general ledger reconciliations, intra-agency eliminations, and other
financial data quality assurance issues to include preparing procedures on the findings

of the financial auditor.

• Assess the current reports available to FPS for financial management and recommend

new reports and revised structures to meet FPS financial requirements.

• Assist in documenting how to create and populate all FPS financial reports, and train FPS

users nationwide as necessary.

• Assess the field FTE and contractors supporting financial management operations within

FPS and a provide a recommendation to include best practices for the management of
these operations to include optimal federal staffing required to manage the process,
recommended skill sets, and training requirements or certifications associated with the

optimal staffing identified.

• Assist in the development and recommend standardized financial performance metrics for the organization, including reporting of Government Performance and Result Act /Modernization Act (GPRMA) measures. Document methodology and reporting criteria used to produce standardized reports.
• Provide critical support to and advanced knowledge of federal accounting systems and

financial reporting to maintain strategic, tactical, and operational levels of excellence.

• Assist with feasibility analysis, development, recommendations, clean-up, and cost

analysis of financial system reports and reporting requirements.

• Provide ongoing expertise in financial policy and procedures, research and analysis,

recommendations for business process improvements, financial statement analysis,
reconciling financial reports, performing validation and verification of accounting
records, analyzing estimates and accruals and other financial related business efforts

and activities.

• Provide internal control support as well as assisting in the development and execution of

Mission Action Plans (MAPs), Corrective Action Plans (CAPs), and other required

remediation.

• Support financial audits and OMB Circular A-123 reviews including development and

maintenance of standard operating procedures.

• Work with FPS Offices and the ICE Office of Financial Management to develop system

change requests to improve internal controls and business process efficiency.

• Provide technical expertise related to various systems modernization activities affecting

financial systems including, document preparation, requirements analysis and
documentation, data clean-up, change management, communications and process

standardization and improvements.

• Advise on the creation of new process documentation to ensure compliance with

appropriate internal controls and FPS policies

• Prepares and delivers briefings and presentations, including status briefings, findings, and recommendations.
• Establish an Internal Control Program Governance framework with FPS to define a

formalized communication structure that promotes effective communication within FPS,
and with DHS Departmental Management Operations. As part of this, we will assist FPS
in identifying and understanding available process documentation, assessing roles and
responsibilities, evaluating existing functions (like the Self Inspection Function) and

integrating these into a complete internal control program framework for FPS.

• Perform an organizational assessment that promotes entity level control, considers roles

and responsibilities, inventories existing processes and subprocesses and identifies
existing process documentation, allows for plans to create process documentation where
possible, and informs corrective action plans so that process gaps may be readily filled
and robust documentation created to assist the entity in improving the effectiveness of

execution of internal control.

• Establish a Risk Assessment and Risk Management framework that informs planning for

internal control assessments, prioritizes and establishes monitoring of key functions, and
enables more reliable and targeted results to assist in mitigating audit risk. We will assist
FPS in developing a detailed risk assessment process that can be used for multifaceted
purposes in support of financial reporting and operations and considers the overall goals

of the organization.

• Create dashboards and data visualizations to meaningfully demonstrate, report, and track progress by process area and accountable process owner that may be leveraged to help inform and drive decision making and changes across FPS.
• Execute annual A-123 assessments. Review annual results and consider them during

scoping and planning each year and provide consideration for how to add procedures to
identify deficiencies and issues that have not previously been identified before they are
identified as potential audit issues. Facilitate corrective action planning that is prioritized
by risk and enables transformation. Conduct verification and validation to confirm the
effectiveness of the remediation activities and promote sustainability of these activities.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES INCLUDE:

• Deliver as-is assessments of the processes and related tools FPS currently uses to manage budget and financial activities. Provide recommendations based on the process and optimal level of federal staffing to follow all applicable government standards associated with delivering best-in-class budget and financial management.
• Develop and provide knowledge management support through practices and process documentation.
• Support FPS SharePoint site content, usage, and development.
• Establish and administer standard operating procedures to advance financial management process improvement.
• Develop FPS FMO Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution reference guide and training for division and to be provided to the regions’ budgetary and financial community.
• Assist FPS in delivering support for financial and budget activities related to Organizational transformation.
• Assist FPS in planning, analyzing, preparing recommendations, implementing, reporting, managing, delivering, and maintaining newly identified budget and financial projects with established timeframes that would otherwise impact on day-to-day operations maintained through efforts completed under SOW Section 3.2 detailed above.
• Assist FPS planning, analyzing, preparing recommendations, implementing, reporting, managing, delivering, and maintaining new FMO responsibilities that may be identified through the Operational/Organizational Assessment being completed or through other organizational realignments or remediation’s identified.
• Preparing minutes associated with financial and budget level meeting, outreach events and associated roundtables.
• Assist in scheduling financial, budget management and coordination required efforts. Assist with regional tasking and standardization, and response coordination and analysis thereof.
• Consolidate historical financial and budgetary records. Provide financial and budgetary records management support.
• Assist in the development and administration of financial and budgetary tools. Assist in meeting preparation.
• Assist with financial and budgetary task coordination and schedule tracking.
• Conduct analysis of ad-hoc issues that support management decision making.