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Financial Operations Manager
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Irving, Texas · Closes in 3 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL), The public.

You must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. The job is open to the public under Direct Hire Authority, and the announcement lists career transition priority (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) for displaced federal employees.

Experience: You need one year of specialized experience at the GS-14 level or equivalent. This means work such as ensuring legal compliance, writing financial reports, directing financial control systems over staff, and developing policies for senior officials.

Education: Education cannot replace experience at this grade.

Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.

2 Resume and documents

Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Two-page resume showing job title, duties, employer name, employer phone and address, dates (MM/YY), and hours worked per week Statement on whether we may contact your current supervisor Completed occupational questionnaire DD-214 or other discharge document if you are a veteran Agency notice, most recent performance rating, and SF-50 if claiming ICTAP priority SF-50 and statement about your appointment if you are a current or former political appointee

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 3 days (October 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.

How they rate you: Your resume, questionnaire answers, and USA Hire online assessment are used to rate you against the qualifications and seven competencies (such as problem solving and decisiveness). You must meet or beat the assessment cut score, and overstating experience or cheating can get you removed from consideration.

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4 After you apply

In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.

For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.

If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

Your resume must show hours per week, supervisor contact permission, and dates in MM/YY format, or it may not be fully reviewed.
Describe your own experience clearly and specifically. Do not copy the duties or questionnaire text into your resume.
Submit the application, questionnaire, and all required documents by 11:59 PM Eastern on 10/30/2026, and complete the USA Hire assessment within 48 hours if the link arrives after closing.

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