This position is located in the Indian Health Service (IHS), Office of Finance and Accounting (OFA), Division of Systems Review and Procedures (DSRP). The incumbent serves as the Director, DSRP, providing staff supervision, advisement, and support to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO)/Director, OFA. The incumbent reports to the Deputy CFO/Deputy Director, OFA.
Duties
- Plans, organizes, and directs the administrative activities in support of UFMS, ensuring that financial management systems, sub-systems, and cross-functional business systems comply with legal and regulatory requirements, and meet customer needs. In addition, the incumbent coordinates the overall UFM communications activities as well as the analysis, formulation, prioritization, development, and monitoring of IHS-wide business and financial management practices. Oversees multi-million-dollar systems support contracts. Serves as the UFMS change management lead and monitors the administrative functions associated with the major modules, primary products, technical systems, and structural architectures, data sources, applied standards point releases and testing, and operational costs that support the acquisition and systems life cycle change management process. Develops, consolidates, standardizes, and integrates business and financial management processes within IHS and HHS to ensure their proper administrative relationship to other functional areas. The incumbent researches, interprets, analyzes, and applies management principles of systems analysis, design, and development that integrate goals and objectives within the organization and financial management systems objectives.
Policy Establishment Procedures:
- Establishes policies and procedures for accomplishment of the full and complete implementation, operation, and modification of the financial system and the integration of various related financial and administrative systems.
Supervisory Functions:
- Plans and organizes the work of the division and determines the objectives and priorities within the available resources so that the delegated functions and work tasks are efficiently and effectively completed. Budgets, plans, organizes, monitors, and directs as appropriate the work of the DSRP staff in accomplishment of financial management systems program goals. The incumbent provides administrative and technical supervision to the division professional and technical staff, initiates awards, recommends promotions, evaluates training needs and oversees development of training plans, recommends approval of training, schedules, and recommends approval of overtime and compensation time, develops performance standards, maintains accurate and up-to-date position descriptions, recommends staffing levels, recruits, and provides for general staff development, effects minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, recommending other action in more serious cases, and evaluation. Responsible for the development, application, and implementation of the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) requirements and the EEO program guidelines established by the IHS and Department as well as the performance appraisal system.
