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 You Will Be Evaluated

Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration. Other Information

Selective Service Act: 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 (https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx).