FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 32)

Summary

This is a National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service Position. These are Indefinite with Right to Convert to Permanent GS-0503-08 FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 32), Position Description Number D1986000 and are part of the MO United States Property and Fiscal Office, Comptroller Division, Financial Services Branch.

Duties

• Analyzes diverse financial management technical methods, techniques, precedent cases, and procedures to resolve an extensive range of difficult financial technical issues or problems.
• Develops variations in approaches to fit specific problems or deals with incomplete, unreliable or conflicting data in the process of work performance in order to validate transactions and resolve inconsistencies
• Analyzes particular facts of financial transaction problems/issues, verifies and evaluates data; obtains additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies.
• Performs research regarding many different and unrelated processes and methods relating to financial transactions for analysis of complex and unusual financial transactions.
• Ensures complex tax issues involving tax documents, Do It Yourself (DITY) moves, and Relocation Income Tax Allowance (RITA) payments are accomplished accurately and timely.
• Uses independent judgment to reconstruct incomplete files, devise more efficient methods for procedural processing, gather and organize information for inquiries, or resolve problems referred by others.
• Researches, interprets, analyzes, and applies regulations, policies, procedures and legal decisions to work and/or resolve complex financial issues/problems.
• Sorts complicated factual information and applies a variety of financial methods to resolve issues.
• Performs complicated actions to solve problems associated with processing actions regarding multiple pay, travel, and accounts payable financial systems.
• Analyzes and develops a variety of new or established techniques and methods to evaluate alternatives and arrive at decisions, conclusions, and recommendations that enhance operations.
• Analyzes and processes 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.
• Applies information derived from personnel management systems to ensure proper pay and entitlements to Soldiers and civilians.
• Determines appropriate travel entitlements for multiple duty statuses and situations including Temporary Duty (TDY), local travel, and Permanent Change of Station (PCS).
• Audits the full range of pay, travel, and accounts payable authorizations and entitlements to determine compliance with multiple laws, regulations, policies and issuances.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

MILITARY REQUIREMENTS: Selected candidate must currently be assigned to a military unit in the Missouri Army National Guard. Title 32 employees will not be militarily senior to their full-time supervisor (grade inversion). GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must possess one year on-the-job experience in financial administration that demonstrates understanding of financial principles and concepts. Skill in collecting data effectively, efficiently, and accurately; ability to clearly enunciate English without impediment of speech that would interfere or prohibit effective communication; ability to write English in reports and presentation formats; ability to communicate clearly and effectively; and skill in applying procedures and directives by reading and interpreting program material. GS-08 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 that provided the ability to provide analysis, validate, process and correct financial transactions and issues/problems involving a full range of financial services; ability to summarize, analyze and evaluate financial data; and knowledge of personnel regulations and personnel management systems. The specialized experience must also indicate knowledge of various integrated automated financial systems to perform complicated evaluations of pay actions and to troubleshoot problem disbursements; knowledge of commercial contract payment processing, receiving and invoicing procedures to compute commercial vendor payments and experience in obtaining and interpreting information, organizing and developing clear and meaningful written information.

Education

This job does not have a qualification requirement that allows substitution of education for specialized experience.

How to apply

To apply for this position, you must complete the online application/Occupational Questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupational Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13042877 A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process. You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application. To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each Application Status means, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/.