Financial Services Technician

Duties As a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 32), GS-0503-8, you will provide analysis, validation, processing, and correction of financial transactions and issues/problems involving the full range of financial services. Major Duties - This is NOT an all-inclusive list: Perform broad in-depth financial analysis of inter-related accounting, logistics, and computer file systems concerning pay, accounts payable, and various travel entitlements using multiple procedures, processes, and techniques. 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 of complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving substantial corrective action and/or complicated adjustments and resolve issues, including assessing unusual circumstances or conditions. Utilize experience and judgment, rather than guides, to fill in gaps, identify sources of information, and make working suppositions about what transpired to decide approaches and resolve specific problems. Develop 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. Analyze facts of financial transaction problems and/or issues, verify and evaluate data, obtain additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies, and apply pertinent fiscal laws and regulations to determine appropriate action for resolution. Perform research regarding many different and unrelated processes and methods relating to financial transactions for analysis of complex and unusual financial transactions. Analyze and resolve tax processing problems based on inquiries or internal control audits and reviews. Ensure complex tax issues involving tax documents are accomplished accurately and timely. Interpret data to identify problems, determine nature of the problem or issue, and decide approach to use to resolve issues. Use independent judgment to reconstruct incomplete files and devise more efficient methods for procedural processing. Research, interpret, analyze, and apply regulations, policies, procedures and legal decisions to work and/or resolve complex financial issues and problems. Perform research and solve problems involving reconciliations of discrepancies to identify, analyze, and provide solutions regarding multiple entitlements, payments to personnel, and payments to commercial vendor to include computation of interest due. Perform complicated actions to solve problems associated with processing actions regarding multiple pay, travel, and accounts payable financial systems. Perform varied duties involving financial services payment systems by applying a series of different and unrelated methods, processes, and techniques involving established financial management systems. Determine appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting from multiple military and civilian statuses. 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 multiple laws, regulations, policies, and issuance. Schedule, run, and analyze various financial system reports. Requirements Conditions of Employment NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED. If you are not sure you are eligible for military membership, please contact a National Guard recruiter prior to applying for this position. This is an excepted service position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in the employing state's National Guard, required prior to the effective date of placement. Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment. Applicants who are not currently a member of the National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership and employment in the National Guard in the military grade listed in this announcement. Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service. Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation. May be required to successfully complete a probationary period. 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. Participation in direct deposit is mandatory. Recruitment and relocation incentives may be available for this position. Qualifications AREA OF CONSIDERATION: The areas of consideration for this position, Title 32 Excepted Service (32 U.S. Code 709), will be in the following manner and sequence: The FIRST area of consideration for this position will be all excepted permanent and indefinite temporary technicians within the ILNG. The SECOND area of consideration will be all current Federal Employees. The THIRD area of consideration will be all Federal re-employment eligible. The FOURTH area of consideration will be applicants willing to become T32 Dual Status Technicians and gain ILNG membership. The FIFTH area of consideration will U.S. Citizens. Military Grades: Enlisted, not to exceed LTC. GENERAL EXPERIENCE : Must possess experience that was gained through work within similar financial program structures that support the Series' GS-0503 occupational functions, basic principles, and procedural concepts. For initial hires and promotion considerations, the candidates or employees must meet the specific graded-position's competencies (skill, knowledge, abilities, and behaviors). SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE : GS-08 Level - Must possess specialized experience for the GS-08 Level, which includes three months of basic finance program training or competencies that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; understand the basic principles and concepts of the National Guard financial business program requirements; should have successfully completed the military finance program technical training school and have finance program experiences along with competencies that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; training that demonstrate the abilities to follow directions, to read, retain, and understand a variety of instructions, regulations, policies and procedures; providing analysis, validation, processing and correction of financial transactions; identification of issues/problems involving the full range of financial services; working with ARNG inter-related systems and processes across multiple functional areas and their interoperability to ensure the validity and accuracy of all disbursements, collections, and adjustments related to financial records; perform pay analysis of complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving corrective actions; review pay concerns or complicated pay adjustments to include assessing unusual circumstances or conditions; analyzing particular facts of financial transaction problems/issues, verify and evaluate data; and obtain additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies; knowledge of pertinent fiscal laws, regulations, precedent decisions, and procedures to determine appropriate action for resolution; resolving tax processing problems based on soldier inquiries or internal control audits/review; resolving complex tax issues involving tax documents; Do It Yourself (DITY) moves; and, Relocation Income Tax Allowance (RITA) payments. Skilled in varied duties, such as, financial services payment systems (travel, accounts payable, and pay, such as, Joint Uniform Military Pay System Uniform Standard Terminal Input System (JUMPS); Operational Data Store (ODS); Standard Financial System ReDesign1 (SRD1); Defense Travel System (DTS), or, Integrated Automated Travel System (IATS). Competent in performing finance work that involved appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements that resulted from multiple military and civilian statuses, to include, but not limited to, Title 10 active duty; Title 32 Inactive Duty for Training (IDT), Annual Training (AT), Active Duty for Training (ADT), Active Guard and Reserve (AGR), and Active Duty for Operational Support (ADOS); process unique and special pay and entitlement actions in order to provide the appropriate entitlements, such as Base Pay; Basic Allowance, Housing (BAH); Basic Allowance, Subsistence (BAS); Incapacitation Pay (INCAP); Family Separation Allowance (FSA); Hazardous Duty Pay; Hostile Fire Pay; Combat Zone Tax Exclusion (CZTE); Special Duty Assignment Pay (SDAP); Student Loan Repayment Program (SLRP); incentive (bonus) pay; Invitational Travel Authorization (ITA); Jury Duty; child support; wage garnishments; allotments; survivor benefits; and incentive pays (Jump Pay, Medical Pay, Flight Pay, Foreign Language Proficiency Pay). 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 m