FINANCE TECHNICIAN

Duties

• You will perform account maintenance and accounting support work; examine, verify and maintain and reconcile accounts and accounting data, prepare and analyze reports.
• You will examine documents for accuracy to ensure compliance with regulations for goods and services, fulfilling contractual obligations.
• You will review to determine signature authentication and correct processing codes.
• You will review and determine pay, payroll records maintenance and completion of reports pertaining to civilian employees of the Federal Government.
• You will post, examine, balance, and extract data from records to prepare reports.
• You will perform work to establish, maintain, correct and close pay accounts; i.e. in and out processing, pay inquires, reviewing pay debts, and adjustments.
• You will perform technician work in support of budget analysis and administration such as maintain ledgers, compiling, consolidating, checking and arranging funding data.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• This is a bargaining unit position.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This is a Financial Management Level I certified position per the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012, Section 1599d. You must achieve this level within prescribed timelines. Certification requirements are in DoD Instruction 1300.26.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card to make official government purchases for goods and services.

Qualifications

For the GS-06: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Utilizing accounting systems, standard accounting codes, classifications and terminology and the ability to apply various accounting methods and techniques; 2) Enforcing procedures and regulations required to examine invoices, voucher, and related documents; and 3) Applying civilian pay and leave rules, regulations procedures, programs and systems, and civilian personnel rules and regulations that affect pay. NOTE: All experience must be fully demonstrated in your resume to be considered for the position.

For the GS-05: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-04 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector providing financial management support (e.g., sorting financial documents, maintaining files, and/or identifying data discrepancies) to support accounting, budgetary, or payroll functions.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website:

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

This announcement uses the Certain Personnel of the DoD direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Starting salaries:
GS-05 Step 01 $46,610 to Step 10 $60,593
GS-06 Step 01 $51,957 to Step 10 $67,543

Vacancies filled from this announcement may be filled at any grade level listed.

If selected below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management. Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed.

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Several vacancies may be filled.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: .

Veteran's preference does not apply when selecting individuals under this specific hiring authority. However, if you claim veteran's preference, you will be required to submit supporting documentation with your application as described in the Required Documents section below.