Job opening: Military Pay Technician
Salary: $49 025 - 63 733 per year
Published at: Jul 01 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: This position is with the United States Army Reserve Command G-8, Army Reserve Pay Managment Division, Individual Mobilization Augmentee / Individual Ready Reserve Branch with Duty located at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Duties
Perform comprehensive review of master military pay account transactions for Army Reserve service members ensuring compliance with policies, pay entitlement laws, regulations, precedent decisions and procedures.
Resolve complex military reserve pay cases such as under/over payments, leave and separation adjustments, bonus eligibility, combat zone special pay, locality pay, overseas entitlements, hazardous duty pay, severance pay, and incapacitation pay.
Review system output and error reports to determine cause, trends, and other statistical information.
Analyze problems, advisories, and reject messages relating to an automated military pay application, the Defense Joint Military Pay System–Reserve Components (DJMS-RC), Defense Military Office (DMO).
Utilize military automated systems to create, review and audit military reserve pay transactions.
Provide military entitlements, pay, and benefits technical guidance and direct service support to deployed and non-deployed Soldiers, units, Reserve Personnel Action Centers, Readiness Divisions, and Army Finance Officers.
Provide technical support to Army Finance offices on processing entitlement and administrative actions for deployed United States Army Reserve (USAR) Soldiers.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position requires DoD Financial Management Certification Program Level 1.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
30 Percent or More Disabled VeteransCurrent Department of Army Civilian EmployeesCurrent Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceExecutive Order (E.O.) 12721Interagency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI)Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferOffice of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement EligiblePeople with Disabilities, Schedule APostal Service/Peace Corps and Other Unique AuthoritiesPriority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleReinstatementVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA)
In order to qualify, you must meet the 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: One year of specialized experience which includes Utilizing a variety of pay regulations, requirements, procedures, and operations to review and determine eligibility for military pay actions; Using automated pay systems to process military pay actions; Researching and making necessary corrections associated with erroneous military pay actions; and Processing non-routine pay adjustments such as special entitlements, special pay, indebtedness or under payments. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-06).
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Concepts, Policies, and Principles of PayrollCustomer Service (Clerical/Technical)Decision SupportFinancial Management Systems
Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-06).
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address DE-APF-W6C4AA RESERVE COMMAND MISSION SUPPORT
DO NOT MAIL
Fort McCoy, WI 54656
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- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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