Job opening: FINANCIAL SPECIALIST
Salary: $63 271 - 82 249 per year
Published at: Jul 27 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is part of the IBC FMD Accounting Operations Division, Office of the Secretary of Interior, Accounts Payable Section. The incumbent will be responsible for assisting higher graded financial analysts, accountants and other bureau financial management employees in providing accounting and financial management services to the bureau.
Duties
Reviews team members work for adequacy and conformance to Federal Travel Regulations, Federal Appropriations Laws, Treasury regulations, and all other relevant policies, procedures, and regulations.
Determines the propriety and legality of accounting transactions and their effect on the General Ledger.
Analyzes and enters many types of transactions into various financial systems and is able to train team members and client personnel on the operation of the financial system.
Develops training materials and provides instruction to team members in the areas of travel, vendor payments, and/or collections.
Record domestic payment entries as a Data Entry Operator (DEO) into the Secured Payment System (SPS) and/or foreign payments in the International Treasury Services (ITS) for disbursements through Treasury.
Gathers financial and program data to evaluate and present alternatives for recommended solutions.
Qualifications
At the GS-09 level, you must meet one of the following qualifications:
A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 level. Specialized experience is that which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience for this position includes but is not limited to experience entering, modifying, and retrieving information from large-scale accounting and/or financial systems such as Oracle, FBMS, Concur and/or Treasury systems (Secure Payment System and/or International Treasury System); providing technical expertise to the accounting technicians and client agency administrative staff in the areas of contract payments, vendor payments, federal payments, grant payments, travel payments and/or collections; providing technical expertise on complex regulations pertaining to vendor payments, travel, and/or collections; and providing training to team members on accounting transactions input into the client's financial system and/or writing user guides, training materials and accounting procedures that communicate accounting regulations and procedures to client accounting and finance offices, employees, supervisors, and managers.;
OR
B. A master's or equivalent graduate degree; or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, if related in one of the following fields: finance and/or business administration; orLL.B. or J.D., if related (Note: Applicants who select this response must provide transcripts as verification of their education);
OR
C. A Combination of education and experience as list above.
Applicants must carefully review the information in the "How You Will Be Evaluated" section for important information and instructions pertaining to the multi-hurdle assessment process for this position.
Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.
TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b).
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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
If qualifying based on EDUCATION you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
Only education from institutions which are accredited or preaccredited/candidate for accreditation may be used to meet education requirements.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Contacts
- Address IBC FMD Accounting Operations Division
7201 W. Mansfield Ave.
Denver, CO 80235
US
- Name: Dallas Worsham
- Phone: 303-969-5006
- Email: [email protected]
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