Senior Revenue Agent (Examiner)

This Senior Revenue Agent (Examiner) position is with Internal Revenue Service (Department of the Treasury) in Glendale, AZ. WHAT IS OFFICE OF LARGE BUSINESS & INTERNATIONAL (LB&I)? A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions Position(s) are to be filled in following area(s): LBI - Office of Program and Business Solutions (PBS) OFFICE TECH & PROG SOLUTIONS (TPS): QUALITY REVIEW & ANALYSIS (QRA) REVIEW THE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW FOR FURTHER DETAILS Key duties: • The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position. Serves as a technical expert in examinations of significant tax compliance issues and provides expert advice that may impact tax compliance strategy and the examination program as a whole. Drafts or reviews work projects involving emerging issues and areas of non-compliance. Serves as an issue expert in the examination of LB&I returns. Exercises significant authority and responsibility in planning, directing, and coordinating the examination of certain significant complex issues. Serves as a lead for other revenue agents and specialists assigned to an examination and counsel attorneys. Leads the team in conferences with appeals, including issue resolution meetings such as fast track. May be assigned to multiple examinations simultaneously. Functions as a resource in certain technical areas of expertise. Collaborates and coordinates with other experts, revenue agents, counsel attorneys, appeals officers, and/or specialists throughout IRS to leverage and expand expertise and ensure consistent application and interpretation of tax laws within those areas. STANDARD POSITION DESCRIPTIONS (SPD): PD98316 Visit the IRS SPD Library to access the position descriptions. Qualifications: Federal experience is not required. Experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or through Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. BASIC REQUIREMENTS All GRADES: A Certificate as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or a bachelor's or higher degree in accounting that included at least 30 semester hours in accounting or 24 semester hours in accounting and an additional 6 semester hours in related subjects such as business law, economics, statistical/quantitative methods, computerized accounting, or financial systems, financial management, or finance. OR A bachelor's or higher degree in a field other than accounting or a combination of education and experience equivalent to 4 years that included at least 30 semester hours in accounting or 24 semester hours in accounting and 6 semester hours in related subjects as described above. AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-14: In addition to the basic requirements, to be eligible for this position, you must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service.Specialized experience for this position includes: Qualifying experience must have been in progressively responsible and diversified professional accounting or auditing work that required 1) knowledge of and skill in applying professional accounting principles, theory, and practices to analyze and interpret accounting books, records, or systems specifically to determine their effect on Federal tax liabilities and their adequacy for recording transactions affecting tax liabilities; 2) skill in interpreting and applying Federal tax law for individuals, business, and/or exempt organizations, partnerships, and corporations; 3) knowledge of business and trade practices to develop tax issues based on analysis and evaluation of overall business operations and financial condition; 4) knowledge of corporate financial transactions and financial management principles and practices; and 5) skill in interacting effectively with a broad range of individuals and in negotiating with specialists in accounting, legal, tax, and other similar business-related professions. Experience interpreting and applying Federal tax laws to examinations involving individuals, businesses, exempt organizations, partnerships, and corporations; researching business and trade practices to identify tax issues through analysis of business operations and financial condition; analyzing the tax consequences of corporate financial transactions and financial-management practices; and presenting and negotiating issue positions with accounting, legal, tax, and other business-related specialists; Experience researching tax-law questions using the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury regulations, revenue rulings, court decisions, and agency policies; documenting the legal analysis; determining the application of the authorities to examination issues; and developing and applying issue-resolution approaches when existing guidance or precedent is conflicting, inconclusive, or does not address the issue; Experience gathering, validating, and evaluating examination, financial, accounting, and operational information; identifying relationships among tax issues; developing examination methods and issue-resolution approaches; explaining the application of tax laws and regulations to taxpayers, taxpayer representatives, and other stakeholders; and negotiating the resolution of disputed facts, methods, or tax treatments; and Experience applying auditing standards and examination techniques to high-asset individuals, corporations, and flow-through entities; reviewing examination plans, workpapers, issue development, factual support, and conclusions; and documenting whether examination work complies with applicable auditing standards, tax authorities, and examination procedures. AND You must also meet the following requirement(s): TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT (TACA): By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment. For this requirement, a competitive appointment is one where you applied to and were appointed from an announcement open to "All US Citizens" TIME IN GRADE (TIG): For positions above the GS-05, applicants must meet applicable time-in-­grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the grade you are applying for. For positions at the GS-05, you cannot advance to the GS-05 if you have held a GS-02 in the past 52 weeks. There is no TIG restriction for GS-02, 03 or 04 positions. For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards. View the full announcement and apply on USAJOBS.gov.