This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

Duties

You will serve as an Accountant in the Comptroller Department of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division. You will apply accounting, budgeting, and auditing policies, regulations, laws, and internal controls, to include Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS). You will research, analyze, and reconcile financial postings using automated financial systems, automated information systems, and data warehouses. You will determine approaches from alternatives, identify and assemble resources, resolve moderately complex financial accounting problems, and complete work assignments given detailed work instructions.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final Secret security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• This is a Financial Management Level I certified position per the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012, Section 1599d. You must achieve this level within prescribed timelines. Certification requirements are in DoD Instruction 1300.26.

Qualifications

TO QUALIFY FOR NT-4: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NT-3 pay band (GS-9 and GS-10 equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional accountant applying accounting principles to resolve moderately complex financial accounting problems. TO QUALIFY FOR NT-3: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NT-2 pay band (GS-5 through GS-8 equivalency) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: As a professional accountant applying basic accounting principles to find, review, or change accounting data in transaction files, ledgers, accounts, summary reports, or financial statements. TO QUALIFY FOR NT-2: Your resume must demonstrate that you meet the basic education requirement for this position as specified in the Education section of this announcement. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-PROF Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) for the Accounting Series, 0510: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0500/accounting-series-0510/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual:

• A bachelor's degree in accounting; or a bachelor's degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting. These 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law; OR
• A combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge. Your background must also include one of the following:

1. Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality. This can include up to 6 hours of business law; OR
2. A certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor, obtained through written examination; OR
3. Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing, e.g., 15 semester hours, but that does not fully satisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement outlined above, provided that (a) you have successfully worked at the full-performance level in accounting, auditing, or a related field, e.g., valuation engineering or financial institution examining; (b) a panel of at least two higher level professional accountants or auditors have determined that you have demonstrated a good knowledge of accounting and of related and underlying fields that equals in breadth, depth, currency, and level of advancement that which is normally associated with successful completion of the 4-year course of study described above; and (c) except for literal nonconformance to the requirement of 24 semester hours in accounting, your education, training, and experience fully meets the specified requirements.

TO QUALIFY FOR NT-4: Education may be substituted for specialized experience as follows:

• A Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR
• Three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR
• A combination of experience and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience.

TO QUALIFY FOR NT-3: Education may be substituted for specialized experience as follows:

• A master's or equivalent graduate degree; OR
• Two full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's or equivalent graduate degree; OR
• A combination of experience and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience.

Contacts

• Address NAVSURFWARFCTR PANAMA CITY DIVISION 110 Vernon Avenue Panama City, FL 32407-7001 US
• Name: Britteny Searcy
• Phone: 850-819-4396
• Email: [email protected]