Job opening: Budget Technician (OA)
Salary: $49 025 - 63 733 per year
Published at: Mar 25 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
Assists with performing a variety of budgetary and accounting duties involving maintenance, extraction, review, explanation, and verification of documents and transactions required for citation of funds and obligations and expenditures of funds.
Monitors the use and rate of expenditure of funds through coordination of program officials and their staff, review of written documents, and examination of accounting records.
Assists with performing a variety of technical assignments associated to the budget records, compilation and preparation of reports and budgets for executing the military and civil funded programs.
Allocates funds received to the proper accounts, requests additional funds as line items dictate.
Track obligations and expenditures within assigned organization throughout the execution phase of the annual operating budget.
Recommends transfer of funds between accounts in accordance with established policy when funds are needed to cover increases in obligations or expenditures fall within established limits or request funds be de-obligated when no longer required.
Produces the reports Via CEFMS to forecast future budgetary needs, specifically program funds as applied to rent, one-time payments, upgrades, and utilities.
Exercises in-depth knowledge of accounting and the financial management system.
Utilize techniques to conduct analysis and determine valid transactions, and research to resolve difficult or sensitive issues.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- Obtain and maintain the Financial Management Level 1 certification within 24 months of appointment.
- A qualified typist and proficiency in operating a micro-computer/software packages is required.
Qualifications
This announcement uses Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience for GS-07: 1.)Maintaining 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, conducting extensive searches for required information. and 2.) Analyzing automated accounting and budget systems such as Corps of Engineers Financial Management System (CEFMS) to reconcile errors that require an understanding of nonstandard procedures or to provide assistance in the development of automated procedures.
OR
Education: One full year of graduate level education in a field directly related to the work of the position, such as Accounting, Finance, or Business.
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) by 18. Add the two percentages.
Please title emails "Application for GS-0561-07 Budget Technician Announcement # CERL9393393237HWF
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show 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:
https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications.
Contacts
- Address GU-APF-W07404 US ARMY ENGR DIST, MOBILE
DO NOT MAIL
Mobile, AL 36628
US
- Name: LEIGH CALVERT
- Email: [email protected]
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