Accounting Director FIAR Lead #24275 - Aeyon

Job Description:

Background:

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office (JPO) leads the life-cycle program management of the F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C: the fifth-generation joint strike fighter air system for the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, international partners, and foreign military sales customers.  

Now that the F-35's have passed their Initial Operational Test & Evaluation (IOT&E), they're ready for serial production, deployment and production.

DoD Audit Readiness is a significant goal for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and a major linchpin to the DoD receiving an unmodified Audit is the F-35 program. This has brought increased attention to the F-35 JPO resolving the notices of findings and recommendations (NFRs) for accountable property... Making this the best time to innovate and streamline financial related processes, systems and     procedures.

Project Objectives for the Transforming Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR) in the F-35 JPO

The JPO will need to change property accountability processes that require utilization of the GFP Module and the Program's Accountable Property System of Record to be populated and sustained with all F-35 property.

The F-35 JPO is listed as a high priority item by the Deputy Secretary of Defense (DepSecDef) to achieve Audit Readiness. 

To achieve audit compliance, the F-35 JPO must:

• Complete the Trial Balance of the F-35 JPO by December 2025 per Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Establish and adhere to all audit methodologies and requirements across the enterprise
• Ensure the control environment aligns with Department of the Air Force, the Department of the Navy and the Defense Logistics Agency.
•  Transform our current FIAR efforts to ensure that there is a clear strategy and comprehensive plan to achieve audit compliance
• Transition to a solution that automates our asset tracking into the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE)
•  Remediate Notice of Finding and Recommendations (NFRs) from DOD-IG and GAO
•  Ensure an automated capability for total asset visibility and inventory control (TAV/IC)
•  Ensure our Accountable Property System of Record is accurate, complete, and is minimal burden capturing all Government Furnished Property movement; seamlessly allowing the US Services to financially report F-35 assets (
•  Develop, document, and test Internal Controls for audit requirements to establish an Initial Trial Balance

Experience Requirements:

• Management experience handling large technologically savvy/detail-oriented teams of professionals
• Backend experience merging systems or software to integrate and automate data
• Navigated updating/automating old ways of doing things within a large institution
• Experience working simultaneously with multiple high-level stakeholders to find agreed upon solutions problems and created a method to address said problem
• Experience leading/ being responsible for the quality assurance of large data sets & transfers
• Comfortable addressing discrepancies in data and efficiently working with groups to find errors
• Professional experience solving large puzzles, finding missing pieces, & piecing together full displays of information to present/ share with others
• Experience being given new policies to integrate into an existing plan coordinating with multiple stakeholders to execute
• Experience managing large ledgers
• Experience in double-end bookkeeping

Mandatory:

• Proven experience successfully managing a seasoned team of 10+ financial professionals & coordinating with senior stakeholders to deliver new and unique results to a constantly evolving set of objectives
• Ability to guide teammates, create ideas, and built internal audit methodologies from scratch with minimal oversight to a 95% accuracy and timeliness when independently examined
• Extremely detail oriented
• Experience creating new systems, software, or visualization tools that take existing data off old systems/methodologies to put into a new creative format
• Experience modernizing systems and pulling together disparate pieces of data from various entities

• You have direct experience with the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) or similar programs
• Experience with cost estimations, conducting financial audits, and establishing an audit strategy
• Experience developing, documenting, testing internal controls for audit requirements
• Experience working with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and/or DoD Inspector General (IG)
  • Specifically on Notice of Findings and Recommendations (NFRs) identifying weaknesses and inefficiencies in financial processes, their respective impacts, why they exist, and recommendations on how to correct
• Advanced excel experience

Experience working one or more of the following:

• Office of the Secretary of Defense
• White House
• Congress
• Acquisition systems within the Air Force, Navy, or Marine Corps
• Foreign militaries or their multilateral weapons sales and compliance teams

Certification Requirements: N/A

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of experience

Work Type:

OnSite – Washington, DC/NCR

Clearance Requirements:

Secret Clearance Required – No Interim Clearances