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Summary The Office of Financial Management Systems (OFMS) is located within the Office of The Chief Financial Officer. OFMS is responsible for the provision and operation of all financial management systems at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). These systems automate core accounting, acquisition, travel, fee collection, planning, budget, reporting and analytical business processes. If this interests you, join USPTO as our next Senior Advisor for the OFMS! Responsibilities This role is the ideal next career step for you if: You can serve as the principal advisor to OCFO executive leadership about how information technology (IT) can best fulfill financial management business needs and as a USPTO IT Product Line Lead for the Enterprise Business Product Line (EBPL) which oversees several of USPTO's mission-enabling business systems (e.g., financial, human capital, administrative, general counsel, etc.). You can oversee the resourcing of all products in the EBPL and collaborate with the Lead Product Owners (LPO) in various mission-enabling business units to formulate and justify budget requests and ensure that adjustments during the year of execution drive the highest business value in accordance with the USPTO's new ways of working. Utilize strategic thinking to make and enable high impact decisions that drive enterprise success, specifically those related to enterprise IT. You can advise the USPTO's mission-enabling executive leaders on the merits of certain technical investments, such as cloud migration, that reduce business risk related to factors like cyber-attacks, fraud, and system availability. You can establish and communicate the vision for mutually beneficial enterprise business process flow improvements through automation. Join us at the agency unleashing America's Potential! The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia. This position is telework eligible within 50-mile straight line distance of USPTO Alexandria, VA Headquarters. If selected for an interview, applicants are encouraged to discuss telework options and eligibility specific to the position in which they applied with the hiring manager. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications To meet the minimum requirements for this position, candidates must demonstrate their experience in their narrative responses to the Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) questions and all narrative responses must be fully supported within their resume. *Applicants must use the USA Jobs text boxes to submit their narrative responses to the PTQs. Do not write "see resume" or "see attached documents". Each PTQ has a 10,000-character limit (to include spaces) that must be adhered to. Uploaded documents addressing the PTQs will not be accepted. Experience must have been at a sufficiently high level of difficulty to clearly show that the candidate possesses the required professional/technical qualifications set forth below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Professional Technical Qualifications: Applicants must clearly demonstrate in their application materials that they possess technical attributes in the PTQs. Applicants are required to input narrative responses to the Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) in the text boxes as prompted by USAJobs. Each PTQ has a 10,000-character limit (to include spaces) that must be adhered to. The Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) for this position are: 1. Extensive experience overseeing automated business management and/or financial management systems. This includes various technologies and platforms of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom software, in order to plan, direct and assess risks of major information technology investments and performance on an ongoing basis. Experience includes an understanding of the interrelationships between business, financial, and program data and information systems consistent with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Act, Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), Federal Manager's Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA), and other legislative requirements. 2. Demonstrated experience in successfully assessing and managing IT system risks and vulnerabilities, maintaining the appropriate system security posture while balancing the needs of the business/mission, and identifying and advising corrective actions needed to secure the integrity of IT systems and data. 3. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with executives, IT delivery partners, vendors, business partners, peers, LPO's, senior agency personnel, OIG, Treasury, and OMB. This includes engaging, educating, and influencing others who do not report to you in order to evaluate priorities, manage Agile team capacity, and address automation challenges. 4. Ability to think critically and analyze automation, contracting, software, and business process improvement options and trade-offs in order to recommend automated solutions that efficiently deliver business value based on mission need and in compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Note: Submit only the documents requested. Additional documents will not be reviewed by the rating panel. Uploaded documents addressing the PTQ's will not be accepted. Education There is no higher educational requirement for this position. Additional Information This is a Non-Bargaining Unit position. This is a Public Trust position and has a risk level designation of 'moderate'. Background Investigation: If selected for this position, you may be required to complete a Declaration for Federal Employment (OF-306), which includes a fingerprint and credit check, to determine your suitability for Federal employment and to authorize a background investigation. The USPTO participates in E-Verify. For more information on E-Verify, please visit http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1185221678150.shtm. All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choice. More than one selection may be made from this announcement if additional identical vacancies in the same title, series, grade, and unit occur within 90 days from the date the certificate was issued. The Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended, requires senior officials in the executive, legislative and judicial branches to file public reports of their finances as well as other interests outside the Government. If selected for this position you will be required to file a Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278).The OGE 278 is available to the public. The primary purpose of disclosure is to assist agencies in identifying potential conflicts of interest between a filer's official duties and the filer's private financial interests and affiliations. The United States Patent and Trademark Office is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors. If you believe that you have been discriminated against and would like to file an EEO complaint, you must do so within 45 days of the date of the alleged discriminatory act. Claims of employment discrimination must be submitted to the attention of the USPTO's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity & Diversity via email (oeeod@uspto.gov) or phone (571-272-8292).