Job opening: Financial Systems Analyst
Salary: $49 025 - 128 956 per year
Published at: Sep 16 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
PLEASE NOTE: Based on the current hiring restrictions, selectees may be subject to additional approvals prior to an offer being extended.
This position is located at Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Administrative Resource Center - Travel Service Division. As a Financial Systems Analyst, you will perform a variety of work to support the travel or relocation programs for Fiscal Service and franchise customers.
Duties
The following are the duties of this position at the GS-12. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.
Participate in the management and maintenance of travel and financial systems utilized by travel. These systems are comprised of personal computers, interfaces, complex systems, and manual processes.
Participate in implementing new customers for travel by identifying their accounting and regulatory needs and setting up the travel and financial systems to meet those needs.
Analyze and test new upgrades to the travel and financial systems.
Manage special projects that may include process improvements and writing requirements for enhancements for existing or new system functionality.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.
The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé.
Specialized experience: For the GS-12, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes all the following:
- Experience using advanced finance practices and methods sufficient to participate in the management and maintenance of automated administrative systems, such as writing requirements, developing project plans, conducting training sessions on automated systems, testing automated systems, gathering and evaluating information, recommending improvements to enhance processes and/or procedures, or recommending improvements for automated systems; AND
- Experience conveying technical information to operational staff and customers; AND
- Managing multiple priorities.
Specialized experience: For the GS-11, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes all the following:
- Experience processing transactions and resolving problems with Oracle E-Business Suite or Government Travel Systems, such as GovTrip, ConcurGov, or moveLINQ applications; AND
- Experience applying help desk procedures and customer service techniques verbally or in writing, such as application setup and advanced troubleshooting, creating or improving procedures and practices or handling multiple customer issues.
OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: PH.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree that demonstrates the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to do the work OR you may have an LLM in a field related to this position.
OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. . Only graduate level education in excess of the first 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.
Specialized experience: For the GS-09, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience includes all the following:
- Experience conveying technical information to customers; AND
- Managing multiple priorities; AND
- Communicating effectively, both verbally and in writing, to make recommendations and give instructions.
OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: Two full years of progressively higher graduate education or Master's degree or an LL.B. or J.D. if related to the position.
OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. Only graduate level education in excess of the first 18 semester hours (27 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.
Specialized experience: For the GS-07, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience includes all of the following:
- Using automated travel and accounting systems; AND
- Applying various federal travel regulations and travel related policies; AND
- Organizing and accomplishing varied work assignments and meeting deadlines despite frequent interruptions.
OR You may substitute education for specialized experience as follows: 1 full year of graduate level education OR a Bachelors degree with one of the following requirements for superior academic achievement: A GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale for all completed undergraduate courses or those completed in the last 2 years of study, or a GPA of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale for all courses in the major field of study or those courses in the major completed in the last 2 years of study, or rank in the upper one third of the class in the college, university or major subdivision, or membership in a national honor society recognized by the Association of College Honor Societies.
OR You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent.
Options for qualifying based on a combination will be identified in the online questions.
In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable:
For the GS-12, you must have been at the GS-11 level for 52 weeks.
For the GS-11, you must have been at the GS-09 level for 52 weeks.
For the GS-09, you must have been at the GS-07 level for 52 weeks.
For the GS-07, you must have been at the GS-05 level for 52 weeks.
Education
Contacts
- Address Administrative Resource Center - Travel Service Division
200 Third Street
Parkersburg, WV 26101
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-7300
- Email: [email protected]