NTIA Agile Mission Support Services

Agency	National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), U.S. Department of Commerce
FTE	2
Primary Task Alignment	Task Area 2 – Budget, Financial, and Resource Management Support; secondary support to Task Area 3
Key Personnel	No
Work Arrangement	Hybrid; remote collaboration with onsite support at designated U.S. Government facilities when required
Security	Current Public Trust designation or an appropriate Government security clearance commensurate with assigned work

Position Summary

The Senior Accountant provides advanced accounting, reconciliation, financial-management, analysis, reporting, and resource-support services to NTIA. The role works with complex Government financial information, identifies and resolves discrepancies, supports budget execution, validates financial activity, and translates detailed accounting data into reliable management information. The position collaborates closely with budget analysts, program offices, operational personnel, and Government stakeholders to improve fiscal visibility, data quality, audit readiness, and decision support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Support recurring accounting and financial-management operations for NTIA programs and enterprise activities.
• Review financial transactions, accounting records, and supporting documentation for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and traceability.
• Perform reconciliations of accounts, commitments, obligations, expenditures, balances, and related financial data.
• Research discrepancies among financial systems, source documents, reports, and program records and coordinate corrective action.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, year-end, and other recurring financial-reporting cycles.
• Analyze historical and current financial data to identify trends, variances, anomalies, execution concerns, and potential financial risks.
• Prepare financial analyses, management reports, tables, charts, and briefing materials for operational and executive audiences.
• Support budget execution by monitoring the relationship among available funding, obligations, expenditures, commitments, and planned requirements.
• Provide financial data and analysis supporting staffing, resource-planning, and portfolio-management decisions.
• Coordinate and validate responses to financial data calls and other reporting requests.
• Support audit readiness by maintaining organized, traceable, and retrievable financial records and evidence.
• Assist with responses to audits, management reviews, internal-control inquiries, and other financial information requests.
• Develop and maintain repeatable accounting procedures, standard operating procedures, desk guides, and supporting documentation.
• Recommend process improvements that increase financial accuracy, transparency, internal control, timeliness, and efficiency.
• Support dashboarding and financial reporting using authorized tools such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau, and Government financial systems.
• Work with Government systems that may include Oracle Federal Financials and related financial or administrative platforms.
• Protect sensitive financial, acquisition, personnel, and Government information and comply with applicable confidentiality and security requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Financial Management, or a related discipline.
• Approximately 5-8+ years of professional accounting, financial-management, or closely related experience.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, reconciliations, financial controls, and financial reporting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong analytical/problem-solving capability.
• Experience preparing accurate financial reports and explaining financial information to non-financial stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Federal financial-management or Federal accounting experience.
• Federal appropriations, budget-execution, or audit-readiness experience.
• Oracle Federal Financials experience.
• Power BI and/or Tableau reporting experience.
• CPA, CGFM, CDFM, or comparable professional credential.
• Department of Commerce or comparable civilian Federal agency experience.

Performance Expectations

• Produce accurate, timely, traceable financial analyses and reconciliations.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies with minimal supervision.
• Maintain strong documentation and audit-readiness practices.
• Communicate financial conditions clearly and professionally to Government stakeholders.

Professional Expectations

• Work effectively in an agile, cross-functional Federal mission-support environment and adapt to evolving priorities, executive direction, workload fluctuations, and emerging organizational needs.
• Demonstrate strong ethical conduct, professional judgment, teamwork, stakeholder engagement, confidentiality, and clear written and verbal communication.
• Produce accurate, timely, objective, understandable, and consistently formatted reports and work products.
• Safeguard Government information, equipment, and property and comply with applicable security, confidentiality, privacy, and information-handling requirements.
• Identify contractor status when required and appropriately mark contractor-produced documents and reports.
• Complete and maintain training, credentials, certifications, or qualifications applicable to assigned duties.
• Other duties assigned

Government Systems and Platforms That May Be Used

Oracle Federal Financials / Business Application Systems, Sunflower, PRISM, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Tableau, Power BI, E2, GovTA, ServiceNow.

Schedule and Performance Environment

• Monday-Friday during normal business hours, 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, excluding Federal holidays and Government-directed closures.
• Routine travel is not required.
• Specific priorities, sequencing, assignments, and levels of effort may change throughout performance based on Government direction and mission requirements.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

P3S Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a professional, diverse, and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable federal, state, or local law.