National Security Agency

Budget /Finance/Accounting Analyst

Responsibilities
The National Security Agency carries out some of our country's most important sensitive intelligence activities. Knowledge of acquisition and business practices to include acquisition and financial management are essential to enable NSA to continually modernize efficiently and effectively.
The Directorate of Finance at NSA is seeking highly motivated and self-starting finance professionals to fill positions of varying levels of complexity and responsibility and entry-level finance positions. NSA is seeking articulate, creative, organized and outgoing team players to help shape, describe, defend, and execute a budget similar in size to that of a Fortune 500 Company. Candidates will be responsible for management of a portion of the Agency budget and must communicate with NSA leaders and external customers in the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and in Congress. Candidates selected must be well organized and adaptable to ever-changing financial conditions in a fast-paced environment. Candidates will take part in a development program designed to provide and enhance skills, knowledge and tools needed to perform successfully in the Budget and Finance career field at NSA. Beyond strengthening technical skills, the program includes exposure to a variety of major Agency concerns through formal and on-the-job training and work assignments.
SALARY RANGE: GG07-12 ($39,330 - $90,698)
Qualifications
Candidates must possess background, skills and/or have demonstrated experience in the following areas:
- Accounting
Basic Accounting Principles
- Business
Business Finance, Statistics, Business Law, Problem Solving,
Strategic Management, Ethics, Management and
Organizational Theory, Program Analysis and Evaluation
-Finance
Management and Analysis, Trend Analysis and Techniques,
Business Finance

- General
Policy Interpretation and Compliance, Problem Solving and
Process Management, Information Search, Retrieval and Analysis,
Negotiation Strategies Operations Research, Industrial
Engineering.
A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is desired from accredited college with at least 24 semester credit hours of study in Business in any of the following disciplines: accounting, business finance, law, contracts, economics, marketing, quantitative methods, statistics and organization and management. Applicants with equivalent work experience will also be considered.
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U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants. Reasonable accommodations provided to applicants with disabilities during the application and hiring process where appropriate. NSA is an equal opportunity employer and abides by applicable employment laws and regulations. All applicants and employees are subject to random drug testing in accordance with Executive Order 12564. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a security background investigation and polygraph.

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The National Security Agency (NSA) is a world leader in the protection and exploitation of intelligence. We gather and analyze foreign signals intelligence to produce vital information for U.S. policy makers and warfighters. And we protect American intelligence from the ever-listening ears of our adversaries, giving our Nation a decisive edge.

At NSA, you can work with the best and the brightest, using your intelligence to solve some of the Nation’s most difficult challenges. Your solutions can play a major role in shaping the course of world history.

NSA offers the following exciting career opportunities:

• Computer/Electrical Engineering
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Foreign Language
• Intelligence Analysis
• Cryptanalysis
• Signals Analysis
• Business Management
• Finance & Accounting
• Student Programs

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At NSA, we recognize that your life is much more than your job. That is why we offer employee benefits that help make work a pleasure and life a little easier. You’ll enjoy an incredible benefits package, flexible work hours, a competitive salary, generous paid time off, and much more.

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