FINANCIAL TECHNICIAN

In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Clerical and Administrative Support Positions, Series 0503 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-06, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience includes knowledge of a body of standardized rules, instructions, and regulations to determine reimbursement of charges, entitlements, and correct procedural courses of action regarding Civilian, Military, and Travel Pay; knowledge of accounting terminology, account structure, forms, methods, techniques, and procedures to ensure proper documentation and fund coding of expenses when an understanding of the relationship between items and forms of ledgers is required or for comparable matters. In addition to having skill to examine, compute, and process the full range of agency travel and transportation vouchers sharing major attributes, which involve a number of complicating conditions such as missing documentation and cross referencing of regulations. FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year at the GS-06 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-07 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Knowledge of wide range of DOD Financial Regulations (DoD FMR) and Joint Travel Regulation (JTR) procedures. Skill in performing arithmetic computations. Ability to gather, assemble, interpret and analyze financial management information in order to reconcile daily transactions for balancing accounts and to present pertinent financial information in written reports, statements, and platform briefings. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing to a diverse group of individuals. Ability to use computer operations, electronics communications, spreadsheet analysis, and database creation and utilization to prepare reports, schedules, and statements. Knowledge of a variety of Financial Management functional areas and their relationships to other functions to research or investigate problems or errors that require reconciling and reconstructing incomplete information. Ability to operate multiple Information Technology software used in the Financial Management career field. PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Click on “Learn more about this agency” button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Senior Financial Technician for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) providing Defense Travel System, (DTS), Civilian Pay, and Military Pay support and services.