THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5), Position Description Number T5132000 and is part of the IL USPFO, National Guard.

Duties

As a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5), GS-0503-8, you will: Provide analysis, validation, processing, and correction of financial transactions and issues involving a full range of financial services. Respond to requests for assistance/information from multiples sources. Determine appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting from multiple military and civilian statuses. Train customers on pay and travel entitlements and associated systems, processes, and reports. 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 on complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving substantial corrective action and/or complicated adjustments and resolves issues. Analyze particular facts of financial transaction problems and issues, verify and evaluate data. Analyze results, apply personal initiative and judgment to make recommendations, which may result in changing guidelines. Analyze and resolve tax processing problems based on inquiries or internal control audits and reviews. Support Soldier Readiness Processing with face to face interviews to conduct personal records review and ensure accurate pay and entitlements. 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 multiples laws, regulations, policies, and issuances. Interpret data to identify problems, determine nature of the problem or issue, decide approaches to use to resolve issues. Use independent judgment to reconstruct incomplete files, devise more efficient methods for procedural processing and gather and organize information for inquires to resolve issues. Perform or conduct research, investigate and solve problems involving reconciliations of discrepancies to identify, analyze, and provide solutions regarding entitlements Schedule, run, and analyze various financial system reports such as daily activity reports, error/reject reports, status reports, and other relevant financial reports. Determine appropriate payments to vendors by applying appropriate laws, regulations, and guidelines. **This is NOT an all-inclusive list of duties.**

Requirements

Qualifications

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; and meet the specific graded-position's competencies (skill, knowledge, abilities, and behaviors). SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-08 Level - MUST possess specialized experience which includes 3 months of basic finance program training or competencies that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; an understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the National Guard financial business program requirements; private or public finance program experiences, along with competencies, that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; ability to follow directions, to read, retain, and understand a variety of instructions, regulations, policies and procedures; experience providing analysis, validation, processing and correction of financial transactions; experience identifying issues/problems involving the full range of financial services; experience ensuring the validity and accuracy of all disbursements, collections, and adjustments related to financial records; experience performing pay analysis of complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving corrective actions; experience reviewing complicated pay adjustments; experience analyzing particular facts of financial transaction problems/issues and obtaining additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies; knowledgeable of pertinent fiscal laws, regulations, precedent decisions, and procedures to determine appropriate action for resolution; experience resolving tax processing problems; experience resolving complex tax issues involving tax documents; and experience performing finance work that involved appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements 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 must contain your own words. You may refer to position descriptions, i.e. the general and specialized experience located within the vacancy announcement, to assist with describing work experiences; however, resumes or applications received in verbatim will not be considered. In your resume you will need to address the general and specialized experience listed below. Please use as much detail as needed, giving dates (months and years) of the experience, position title and how the experience was gained. This information is needed to determine if you are qualified for the position.

Education

If you are using Education to qualify for this position:

Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience - To qualify for the National Guard GS-0503 Title 5 Excepted Service positions, on the basis of completed undergraduate or graduate education, the college degree education must be in one of -or- be a combination of the following required disciplines: Accounting, business, finance, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organizational management. Applicants who were service members or who currently serve in a military component and completed training in financial programs, are considered minimally qualified for the GS-09 entry-level position.

AS A GENERAL RULE, ONE QUARTER COLLEGE CREDIT HOUR EQUALS .67 SEMESTER COLLEGE CREDIT HOUR. For example, to compute the number of semester hours an applicant earned, after he/she successfully completed 36 quarter credits in accounting discipline courses by:1. Use the data point of .67 to compute Quarter Hours into Semester Hours:36 Quarter Hours X .67 Semester Hour = 24 Semester Hours.OR2. May compute the number of semester hours an applicant has earned, after he/she successfully completed 36 quarter credits in accounting discipline courses:36 Quarter Hours /1.5 = 24 Semester Hours. Hint: Whether you are converting Semester Hours into Quarter Hours; or, Quarter Hours into Semester Hours, the applicable computation data points are correct.

PLEASE NOTE: Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications (particularly positions with a positive education requirement). Therefore, applicants must report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html. All education claimed by applicants will be verified by the appointing agency accordingly.

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

You must provide OFFICIAL transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims. To receive credit for Education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the Education requirements for this position.

Contacts

• Address IL USPFO 1301 N MacArthur Blvd Springfield, IL 62702 US
• Name: Lauralee Smith
• Phone: (217) 761-3544
• Email: [email protected]