Federal Government

Accountant

• Reviews and analyzes various incoming/outgoing detailed and summary reports and reconciliations in the Defense Departmental Reporting System (DDRS) in order to ensure accuracy, integrity and reliability of financial reports submitted from operating activities. Identify potential data issues that impact the financial statement production. Issues could include; missing crosswalk data for United States General Ledger Accounts, inaccurate report or account mapping or missing reconciliations. • Routinely prepares high quality Journal Vouchers (JVs), reconciliations, footnotes, financial statements and report packages in Defense Departmental Reporting System (DDRS), accurately, with adequate support, and by the established due dates in accordance with DFAS guidelines. • Independently researches abnormal and inaccurate account balances in DDRS and Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), to determine the cause, and collaborates with Commands and other Directorates during the research and resolution process. Provides recommendations to correct and resolve balances by the assigned deadlines. • Resolves complex reporting system issues that may prevent the processing of JVs and reconciliations by the assigned due dates, by collaborating with the appropriate POCs (for example, DDRS Program Management Office (PMO), Navy Financial Management Operations (FMO), and/or Enterprise Solutions & Standards (ESS) to further understand the root cause, as well as the proper procedures to follow for resolution. • Consistently volunteers to cover additional workload due to retirements and staff shortages (in addition to normal workload), and provides support outside of normal business hours to ensure reporting deadlines are met. • Regularly provide detailed research and analysis support to the Navy Financial Management Office (FMO) for the Navy Universe of Transactions Reconciliation efforts, to provide end to end detailed transactions and financial statement reproduction. Ensuring reconciled financial statements are provided to auditors by established due dates. • Evaluates, designs, develops, adapts and revises Standard Operating procedures for new process implementation across accounting and financial management reporting systems and for various stakeholders, to include but not limited to FMO, Navy General Team and the Navy Working Capital Fund Team. Also provides training for new points of contacts on processes to ensure smooth transition of workloads. • As the team Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Intragovernmental/Intergovernmental Eliminations (Trading Partner) Process, lead process improvement activities for trading partner database completion process as well as transition of workload in efforts to cross train across working capital fund teams, to include communicating new procedures to remediate Journal Vouchers and produce more accurate trading partner data. • Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the WCF team, regularly coordinate and lead group and one on one training sessions for the professional accountants on the NWCF team, the WCF department, new employees and Navy interns related to various accounting procedures and process implementations. • Formulate and present department process overview presentations to Navy customers in order in to explain business processes, ongoing challenges, and current initiatives to improve customer service and products. Also develop input for presentations for delivery to customers and management officials on accounting situations, system transitions and new developments. • Analyzes quarterly financial statement line items, reconciliations, fluctuation analysis and variance analysis from FMO and Financial Reporting (formerly Agency Wide) and identifies problem areas, explain discrepancies, research authoritative policy to not only ensure modification of operations to comply with current regulations but also to identify the root cause of issues to assist in improving operating programs and assist in maintaining integrity of accounting records and financial information. • Performs testing of annual internal controls over Navy General Fund (GF) processes. Serves as the subject matter expert for control point 1010 for iControl. The timely and accurate testing of these controls assists DFAS in moving towards a favorable audit opinion by ensuring that DR follows the proper procedures for each process. • Evaluates and performs testing on system change requests to determine the impact of process improvements on the financial statements, reconciliations, report mappings and crosswalks and communicating my findings to management and the Project Management Office upon testing completion. • Provide walkthrough presentations to internal and external auditors and assist in the development and implementation of Corrective Action Plans and remediation efforts. Including answering requests, attending conference calls and meetings. • Reviews and analyzes new guidance, policy changes and legislation to ensure proper implementation, compliance and performance of accounting procedural changes, and to determine the impact on current operations. • Utilizes various guidance resources, laws and policies such as the Department of Defense Financial Management Regulations (DoD FMR), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) guidance, FIAR guidance, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circulars, the Treasury Financial Manual (TFM), Standard Financial Information Structure (SFIS) information, to resolve posting logic issues, accounting errors and audit issues. • As lead of the GTAS team for WCF, ensured proper training for back up points of contact, prepared Navy Working Capital Fund Summary Trial Balance and submitted information to the Department of Treasury through the Government Treasury Accounting System (GTAS) System. Also provided in depth analysis of edit and validation failures for the GTAS Trial Balance submission, identifying the root cause of the error and providing management with recommendations for resolution. • Performed reconciliation of cash balances for all Navy subheads monthly, to ensure that cash transactions were accurately being posted to all applicable systems, including Defense Cash Accountability System (DCAS), the Activity Control Ledger (ACL) and Standard Accounting and Reporting System (STARS), prior to providing essential cash files to AM&C and the Navy Customers for use in their monthly reporting process.