Job opening: MILITARY PAY TECHNICIAN
Salary: $59 966 - 77 955 per year
Published at: Feb 21 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The primary purpose of this position is to perform duties as chief, reserve military pay branch and primary point of contact for all military pay issues, transactions, and procedures for active, reserve, inactive reserve (IMA) or retired armed forces personnel and their annuitants.Responsible for resolving the more difficult complex actions, developing, and revising local procedures, and providing liaison functions between base organizations and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS).
Duties
Monitors, reviews, or initiates complex transactions where guidelines lack specificity to requirements, circumstances, or problems, and/or frequently change.
Assists technicians in resolving more complicated debt collection cases.
Accomplishes the more difficult customer complaints and technical military pay issues and provides professional advice and guidance to the Wing Commander, Wing Staff, and Wing personnel on military pay policies and regulations.
Assists with training lower-level clerks/technicians on miscellaneous technical tasks and various complex actions in support of military pay actions.
Serves as the primary point of contact on reserve pay actions and coordinator on resolving reserve pay matters.
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Males must be registered for Selective Service, see www.sss.gov
- This position is subject to provisions of the DoD Priority Placement Program
- Disclosure of Political Appointments
- Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft.
- This is a Financial Management Level 1 Certified position IAW the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012, Public Law 112-81, Subtitle F-Financial Management, Section 1599d.
- Incumbent shall comply with the requirements of this certification program.
- This is a supervisory position, a 1-year probation period is required if selected.
Qualifications
In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Clerical and Administrative Support Positions.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-07, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience includes in-depth knowledge of a body of current and prior military pay procedures, regulations, laws, and applicable Comptroller General Decisions to resolve complicated pay problems and/or to research or investigate problems or errors that require reconciling and reconstructing incomplete information, conducting extensive and exhaustive searches for required information; thorough knowledge and understanding of a wide variety of the automated pay systems internal processing methods, interrelationships between pay system files, audit trail requirements, detailed input requirements, and output products to determine when manual processing is necessary, to devise methods for input transactions to bypass computer operations and to trouble shoot, identify and report programming and systems problems.
FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year at the GS-07 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-09 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:
Knowledge of a large body of rules, regulations, laws, and variety of procedures for one or more military pay specializations; the data system(s) used to support military pay actions, and federal debt collection rules and regulations.
Knowledge of a variety of accounting and budget functional areas and their relationships to other functions to research or investigate problems or errors that require reconciling and reconstructing incomplete information.
Skill in performing arithmetic computations to compute military pay.
Ability to interpret/apply regulations and procedures related to military pay, debt collection, and various complex actions.
Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to present and/or advise on processes/actions.
Incumbent must have extensive knowledge and technical expertise in all facets of military computer programs as they relate to pay entitlements.
PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.
VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
IF USING EDUCATION TO QUALIFY: If position has a positive degree requirement or education forms the basis for qualifications, you
MUST submit transcriptswith the application. Official transcripts are not required at the time of application; however, if position has a positive degree requirement, qualifying based on education alone or in combination with experience, transcripts must be verified prior to appointment. An accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education must accredit education. Click
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FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
Contacts
- Address JB Charleston
101 E Hill Blvd
Bldg 503
JB Charleston, SC 29404
US
- Name: Total Force Service Center
- Phone: 1-800-525-0102
- Email: [email protected]
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