The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is recruiting for a Lead Systems Procedures Analyst will function in Fiscal Service. The incumbent performs as a lead analyst in major payroll and travel projects, including planning and deployment of new systems.

Duties

The Lead Systems Procedures Analyst duties include, but are not limited to: Determines and recommends training needs for VANEOHS for financial matters with a particular focus on payroll, travel or agent cashier policies and guidelines. Delivers training when needed and through available communication platforms to include email, video conferencing and in person training. Ensures work is completed timely and is distributed in a manner to ensure all employees have a full complement of work to fill a workday/workweek/pay period. Provides advice to management and program personnel on finance issues and implement recommendations for complex issues. Responsible for the standard procedural aspects of a financial management program. Analyzes such matters as types of payroll or travel actions and support services. Serves as a Subject Matter Expert to train timekeepers, alternates, and supervisors, and conducts semiannual audits to assure conformity to regulations. Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of assigned program principles, concepts, regulations, and practices, analytical methods and techniques performing multiple, varying, and complex assignments in their program area(s) as a contributing specialist, project lead or team lead for large projects under the minimum direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional. Work Schedule: Monday- Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Regular telework 3 days Pay Period Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: 92353-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must meet the following requirements within 15 calendar days of the closing date listed on the announcement: Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Applicants must be eligible under the VA Interchange Agreement, having served continuously for at least one year in the other merit system under this interchange agreement. For more information regarding the VA Interchange Agreement please visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-authorities/competitive-hiring/. All Title 38 Veterans Canteen Service (VCS) employees must have served in their Excepted Service position for at least 90 days in order to be eligible for a position within the Competitive Service. Applicants who were previously selected under a Competitive Delegating Examining Office (DEO) announcement must have served in their position for at least 90 days prior to being eligible for other positions within the Competitive Service. In addition to the qualification above you must also have: Specialized experience is defined as experience which equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of Lead Systems Procedures Analyst. Examples of specialized experience include: preparing all payroll reports required by VA; reviewing personnel actions for proper application of pay regulations and consistency of input for appointments, promotions, pay adjustments, reassignments, awards, and separations; serving as the technical advisor to employees on matters of time and leave as they affect pay computations; processing payroll actions in an automated system for employees appointed under different personnel systems which have unique pay accounts; computing, coding and inputting complex pay adjustments to include transfers between pay systems that affect leave, benefit entitlements and retroactive actions; planning the workload for the payroll office; reviewing work assignments of Payroll Technicians; and overseeing the day-to-day functions of the payroll office. OR Education: Must have successfully completed a master's or equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or an LL.B. or J.D., if related to the work of this position. (Transcripts must be submitted). OR Combination Experience/Education: Combination of education and experience to qualify at the GS-09 level. This can be determined by adding total qualifying experience as a percentage of the required experience and education as a percentage of the total required. The total percentage must equal 100 percent. Only education more than the first 18 semester hours (i.e. beyond the first-year graduate level education) is creditable towards meeting the specialized experience requirement. A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Employee Development Communications Analytical Reasoning Financial Analysis Problem Solving 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: Work is primarily performed while sitting, but requires some walking, standing, and light carrying. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System 10701 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106 US
• Name: Michelle Swanhart
• Phone: 315-744-7939
• Email: [email protected]