This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Recruit Training Center, Cape May, NJ.

Duties

You will be responsible in the role of this position to serve as an accounting technician with responsibility for classification, maintenance, and reconciliation of accounts controlled by the unit and for entering transactions into a financial management system.. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: * Collecting, reviewing, and filing all procurement source documentation for the MWR program. * Monitoring and processing credit card transactions from several credit card terminals. * Monitoring a variety of transactions, including: undelivered orders, accounts payable and receivable, expenditures, disbursements, payroll, employee benefits, inventory changes, cash sales, and other various transactions. * Researching unresolved transactions with the bank and/or credit card processing vendor. * Preparing monthly and quarterly non-appropriated fund reports to cognizant program managers and financial personnel for review. * Making recommendations to improve MWR program operations by increasing revenue and decreasing expenditures.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.

Qualifications

Qualifications:  Candidates must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 level in the federal service.   Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. Examples include: analyzing error listings, isolating sources of error, making corrective entries & reprocessing accounting transactions; computing transportation charges & discounts, & total amount for vouchers & initiating adjustments; reconciling listing of accounts payable with general ledger, researching discrepancy & initiating adjustment action.  National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.  If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here

Contacts

• Address United States Coast Guard 2401 HAWKINS POINT RD. BLD 1, STOP 4 BALTIMORE, Maryland 21226 United States
• Name: USCG Applicant Support
• Phone: 866-656-6830
• Email: [email protected]