NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

Duties

The incumbent will perform the following: Processes NEH vendor, panelist, grantee, and federal agencies invoices, and other fiscal items for payments on a daily basis. This payment function includes one or more of the following types of payments: domestic and foreign civilian travel vouchers, travel and purchase credit card transactions, single-funded and multi-funded grants, contracts, utilities, Intra-governmental Payment and Collection systems (IPAC), and other miscellaneous payments. Resolves, as necessary, payment bulk file data formatting issues resulting from missing or erroneous information contained in the agency's financial system. Ensures that expenditures are within amounts authorized and obligated. Performs grant close-out functions including reconciliations, and financial status reports, and coordinates any deobligations. Prepares accounts receivable transactions for grantees that received amounts paid in excess of allowed amounts. Reconciles and interprets complex data and data elements from Oracle system screens, printouts, or manual reports to source records (electronic and/or paper copy) and makes complex adjustments to accounts payable accounting transactions as determined necessary. Contacts vendors, and grantees, and in some cases, coordinates with division offices to obtain accounting information necessary to process payments. Serves as liaison to other offices and service contractors, officials in other government agencies, organizations, and institutions regarding financial and budget management to ensure payments are processed in a timely manner. Analyzes payment records in order to address manager and staff questions regarding a variety of program, contract, and grant financial transactions. Assists other senior accounting staff in identifying and resolving accounting transaction issues. Provides technical guidance on travel regulations and regulatory reporting requirements to ensure compliance. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizen
• Relevant experience and/or education
• Favorable background investigation
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with the Selective Service
• May be required to successfully complete a 1-year probationary period

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying. At the GS-09 level Qualified candidates must possess: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS- 07 level or equivalent experience. Specialized experience is experience which is directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, for example: relevant experience in working with the Federal Travel Regulations, federal travel management and card management systems, federal travel and card management programs. Additional experience in card management stakeholder management such as GSA SmartPay, US. Bank and/or Citibank, experience preparing reports, analysis and clear/concise oral and written communications to include but not limited to, official correspondence, emails to various audience levels/types, policies and procedures for both internal/external stakeholders. At the GS-11 level Qualified candidates must possess: 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS- 09 level or equivalent experience. Specialized experience is experience which is directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, for example: reviewing grantee submitted documents, to include grant payment requests and financial reports or other vendor invoices and documents and providing guidance to grantees or payees on proper preparation of required forms; performing grant or purchase order closeout functions to include reconciling and reviewing financial status reports, and coordinating final transactions DE obligations; processing vendor invoices; employee reimbursements; panelist and grant payments; reviewing approved payments to verify arithmetic and compliance with travel regulations and agency specific policies; reconciling credit card statements; reviewing and reconciling various transactions involving multiple accounting lines; using federal reporting systems (e.g. IPAC, OTCnet) and Oracle financial system software applications; and identifying, analyzing, and resolving Treasury payment file errors. As part of the online application process you will need to respond to a series of questions designed to assess your possession of the following knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or competencies: AccountingBudget AdministrationFinancial ManagementOral CommunicationProblem SolvingWriting

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address National Endowment for the Humanities 400 7th Street SW Washington, DC 20506 US
• Name: NEH Human Resources
• Phone: 2026068415
• Email: [email protected]