FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5)

Duties

As a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5), GS-0503-8, you will:

• Provide analysis, validation, processing, and correction of financial transactions and issues involving a full range of financial services.
• Respond to requests for assistance/information from multiples sources.
• Determine appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting from multiple military and civilian statuses.
• Train customers on pay and travel entitlements and associated systems, processes, and reports.
• Analyze diverse financial management technical methods, techniques, precedent cases, and procedures to resolve an extensive range of difficult financial technical issues or problems.
• Perform in-depth analysis on complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving substantial corrective action and/or complicated adjustments and resolves issues.
• Analyze particular facts of financial transaction problems and issues, verify and evaluate data.
• Analyze results, apply personal initiative and judgment to make recommendations, which may result in changing guidelines.
• Analyze and resolve tax processing problems based on inquiries or internal control audits and reviews.
• Support Soldier Readiness Processing with face to face interviews to conduct personal records review and ensure accurate pay and entitlements.
• Analyze and process transactions directly with U.S. Treasury and local financial institutions to ensure credits and collections are accomplished in a timely manner in accordance with law, regulation, and policy.
• Audit the full range of pay, travel, and accounts payable authorizations and entitlements to determine compliance with multiples laws, regulations, policies, and issuances.
• Interpret data to identify problems, determine nature of the problem or issue, decide approaches to use to resolve issues.
• Use independent judgment to reconstruct incomplete files, devise more efficient methods for procedural processing and gather and organize information for inquires to resolve issues.
• Perform or conduct research, investigate and solve problems involving reconciliations of discrepancies to identify, analyze, and provide solutions regarding entitlements
• Schedule, run, and analyze various financial system reports such as daily activity reports, error/reject reports, status reports, and other relevant financial reports.
• Determine appropriate payments to vendors by applying appropriate laws, regulations, and guidelines.

**This is NOT an all-inclusive list of duties.**

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• IAW The Fair Chance Act, Agency employees may not request criminal history information at the point of initial application, upon receipt of an application, or prior to, during or after a job interview. If an Optional Form (OF) 306, Declaration of Employment is submitted prior to the point of a conditional offer, questions related to background information section may not be asked.
• Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
• May be required to successfully complete a trial period.
• This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment (30 Sep 96) of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968. An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this position.
• Irregular and/or overtime (compensatory) hours may be required to support operational requirements or contingencies or may be required to work hours outside of the normal duty day.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• Certification Level 1: THIS IS A FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT LEVEL 1 Certified position designated as such in accordance with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012, Public Law 112-81, Subtitle F-Financial Management, section 1051, amending 10 United States Code, section 1599d. Incumbent of this position is required to comply with all Department of Defense and Department of the Army requirements of this certification program. This certification requirement is a condition of employment for this position. Failure to obtain this certification within the required time may subject the incumbent to adverse action.
• This position is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program.

Qualifications

AREAS OF CONSIDERATION: The areas of consideration for this position, Title 5 Excepted Service, will be in the following manner and sequence:

• The FIRST area of consideration for this position will be candidates who match through the Priority Placement Program (PPP).
• The SECOND area of consideration will be Veterans' Preference (VP) eligible.
• The THIRD area of consideration will be all excepted permanent and indefinite temporary technicians within the ILNG.
• The FOURTH area of consideration will be all current Federal Employees.
• The FIFTH area of consideration will be all Federal re-employment eligible.
• The SIXTH area of consideration will be U.S. Citizens.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE : GS-08 Level - MUST possess specialized experience which includes basic finance program training or competencies that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; an understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the National Guard financial business program requirements; private or public finance program experiences, along with competencies, that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; ability to follow directions, to read, retain, and understand a variety of instructions, regulations, policies and procedures; experience providing analysis, validation, processing and correction of financial transactions; experience identifying issues/problems involving the full range of financial services; experience ensuring the validity and accuracy of all disbursements, collections, and adjustments related to financial records; experience performing pay analysis of complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving corrective actions; experience reviewing complicated pay adjustments; experience analyzing particular facts of financial transaction problems/issues and obtaining additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies; knowledgeable of pertinent fiscal laws, regulations, precedent decisions, and procedures to determine appropriate action for resolution; experience resolving tax processing problems; experience resolving complex tax issues involving tax documents; and experience performing finance work that involved appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements

In order to be considered qualified, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in Federal service.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Verbiage displayed on your resume or application must contain your own words. You may refer to position descriptions, i.e. the general and specialized experience located within the vacancy announcement, to assist with describing work experiences; however, resumes or applications received in verbatim will not be considered. In your resume you will need to address the general and specialized experience listed below. Please use as much detail as needed, giving dates (months and years) of the experience, position title and how the experience was gained. This information is needed to determine if you are qualified for the position.

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone. No substitution of education for experience is permitted for this occupational series and grade.

Additional information

• If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency ( ).
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