Auditor

About the role

The Department of Energy (Department), Office of Inspector General (OIG) is currently looking for an Auditor in the Office of Audits. Join our professional team to help support the Department's mission through performance and financial audits, inspections, and investigations into alleged violations of law.

What you will do

• Assist in completing audits by carrying out a variety of audit procedures and reporting on conditions found.
• Audit assignments may involve a broad range of program areas within the Department of Energy.
• Apply knowledge of professional accounting and auditing principles, concepts, and practices to independently perform assignments using traditional and advanced methods and techniques, including statistical techniques to collect and analyze data.
• Conduct examinations on a variety of records to determine compliance with governing regulations, legislation, and operating controls by ensuring that expenses are allocated correctly.
• Gather, organize, and evaluate data and separate essential from nonessential data.
• Maintain communications with internal and external stakeholders to plan, arrange, and coordinate audit work efforts and present information.
• Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
• This announcement may be used to fill both Auditor (Performance) and Auditor (Financial) GS-0511-7/9 positions within the Office of Audits.
• Candidates may be placed on an Incurred Cost, Cyber and Financial, or Performance Audit Team as determined by their specific qualifications and agency needs.

Education

Continuing from the Qualifications Section Above: QUALIFICATIONS (GS-09) CONTINUED: -OR- Successful completion of a combination of education and experience as described above.

To combine education and experience, first take the number of graduate credit hours earned in excess of the number of semester hours or quarter hours equivalent to one full year of study at the academic institution (i.e. 18 semester hours; 27 quarter hours) and divide by that same value. Then, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12. Add the percentages together.

The total must equal at least 100 percent to qualify. In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined above by the closing date of the announcement (or by February 3, 2027).

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: Auditing Series 0511 Volunteer Experience: "Experience" refers to paid and unpaid experience.

Examples of qualifying unpaid experience may include: volunteer work done through National Service programs (such as Peace Corps and AmeriCorps); as well as work for other community-based philanthropic and social organizations.

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. This position has a Basic Requirement/Positive Education requirement.

See the Qualifications section above for detailed requirement. If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements: To qualify based on education, you must submit a legible copy of transcripts from an accredited institution with your name, school name, credit hours, course level, major(s), grade-point average or class ranking, and date degree conferred.

Transcripts do not need to be official, but if you are selected for this position and you used your education to qualify, you must provide official transcripts before you begin work.

If working to finish your degree and/or educational requirements for this position by February 3, 2027, please submit with your application your most recent, unofficial transcript; documentation verifying your anticipated graduation date; and/or documentation verifying your class standing, if applicable, to receive consideration.

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet qualification requirements, you must show that your education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

For further information, visit: Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

How you will be evaluated

Rule of Many Rating Procedure: Once the application process is complete, your resume, supporting documentation, and questionnaire/assessment responses will be used to determine whether you meet the job qualifications. If you are minimally qualified for this job, your responses to the technical rating assessment(s) will be scored.

You will be ranked in score order plus any Veterans' preference points. All candidates who rate among a set number of the highest-ranked eligibles will be referred to the hiring manager for consideration. All applicants tied at the cut line will be referred.

If additional candidates are needed, groups of three per vacancy will be referred.

Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): Professional Ethics & Independence Application of Veterans' Preference: If you are a preference eligible candidate, you will be listed ahead of non-preference eligibles with the same score.

Preference eligibles with a compensable service-connected disability of 10 percent or more are listed at the top of the certificate in the order of their ratings unless the job is scientific or professional at the GS-9 grade level or above (or equivalent). To preview the Assessment Questionnaire, click ***

Documents you must provide

• duties performed; full name and address of the each employer; start and end dates (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed education and training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion date).
• Cover Letter, optional, expressing additional information not covered in your resume.
• Transcripts: This position has educational requirements; you must submit a copy of your transcripts.
• Unofficial transcripts or any report listing institution, course title, credits earned (semester or quarter hour) and final grade is acceptable.
• If working to finish your degree and/or educational requirements for this position by February 3, 2027, please submit with your application your most recent, unofficial transcript or other report as described above; documentation verifying your anticipated graduation date; and/or documentation verifying your class standing, if applicable.
• It is your responsibility to provide adequate proof that you meet the educational requirements. adequate proof that you meet the educational requirements.
• Veterans' Preference documentation, if applicable, DD-214 Member Copy 4 showing type of discharge/character of service; current active duty members- certification of expected discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions dated within 120 days; SF-15 Form and related documentation; VA letter.
• For more information visit the USAJOBS Help Center & OPM CHCOC website for VOW information.
• Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) & Reemployment, if you are a DOE Excepted Service displaced federal employee, from a Pathways appointment, or believe you have reemployment rights at DOE based on a compensable injury, you must reach out to the agency contact listed in this announcement prior to the close date for guidance on how to receive consideration.
• Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents may result in loss of consideration due to an incomplete application package.
• It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted.

What to expect next

Once your online application is submitted you will receive a confirmation notification by email. The status of your application will be updated in USAJOBS as it is evaluated. You can check the status by logging into USAJOBS.

You may also sign up to receive automatic emails anytime the status of your application changes by logging into your USAJOBS Account and editing the Notification Settings. You will be contacted directly if an interview is required. All applicants will receive notifications and you will be notified of our rating and referral decision.

If you are referred, you will be notified after a hiring decision is made.

Additional information

This vacancy is limited to the first 200 applications received and will close at 11:59pm ET on the closing date or at 11:59pm ET on the day we receive the 200th application, whichever comes first. Conversion: Pathways Recent Graduates may be noncompetitively converted to a term or permanent position in the competitive service upon program completion.

This is not automatic nor guaranteed; it is at the discretion of the employing office.

To be eligible for conversion, a Recent Graduate must: (1) complete at least one year of continuous service; (2) be a U.S. citizen; (3) demonstrate successful job performance (4) meet the qualification standards for the position to which converted; (5) receive a recommendation for conversion from the first-level supervisor; and (6) meet agency-specific requirements, as specified in the Participant Agreement.

Note on Citizenship: Non-U.S. Citizens may be initially appointed into the Pathways Program when the student is lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a permanent resident and is actively seeking citizenship as provided under 8 U.S.C.1324b(a)(3)(B). However, U.S. Citizenship is required to be considered eligible for conversion to the competitive service.

A non-U.S. Citizen not receiving citizenship by the end of the trial period must be terminated. A proposed appointment of a non-U.S. Citizen must be reviewed and approved by the Office of General Counsel to ensure compliance with applicant Federal laws and regulations.

Promotion Potential: Promotion to the full performance level (GS-13) is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactory perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommending by the position's supervisor.

Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized to newly appointed federal employees for amounts up to 25% of annual salary. If a recruitment incentive is authorized, the employee must sign an agreement to fulfill a period of service with the agency of not less than 6 months and not more than 4 years, as determined by the gaining office in accordance with agency policy.

Authorization of incentives is not guaranteed and is subject to available funding and management approval. Relocation Incentives: May be authorized to current Federal employees who must relocate to accept a position in a different geographical area, for amounts up to 25% of annual salary.

If a relocation incentive is authorized, the employee must sign an agreement to fulfill a period of service with the agency of not less than 6 months and not more than 4 years, as determined by the gaining office in accordance with agency policy. Authorization of incentives is not guaranteed and is subject to available funding and management approval.

For Reasonable Accommodation information or assistance: Email: *** Phone: (202)586-4393 711 for TTY-Based Telecommunications Relay Service | Federal Communications Commission (fcc.gov) This announcement may be used to fill additional similar positions across OIG-DOE if identical vacancies occur within 120 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.

More than one selection may be made from this announcement. For general information on government-wide Telework polices visit: *** You will be assigned to an OIG office.

Limited, situational telework flexibilities may be offered as defined by agency policy. Telework flexibilities are not guaranteed.