Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Senior Financial Technician for Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) providing Defense Travel System, (DTS), Civilian Pay, and Military Pay support and services.

Duties

Plans, organizes, and directs the activities of Defense Travel System (DTS), ensuring that travel obligations and disbursements are in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and meets customer needs. Develops goals and objectives that integrate organization and Comptroller/Flight objectives. Receives and examines complex payroll authorization documents (e.g., leave authorization forms, saving bonds, and allotments, employee organization deductions), makes computations, and prepares proper forms for the pay of the full variety of civilian position on various work schedules, (full-time, part-time, shift work, alternate schedules, credit hours, etc.) and special employment programs. As the senior technician, monitors, reviews or initiates complex transactions where guidelines lack specificity to requirements, circumstances or problems, and/or frequently change. Audits pay and leave accounts to identify and correct delinquent and/or erroneous personnel actions or timekeeper errors. Maintains travel files/records and produces reports or summarizes information related to vouchers and supporting documents. Assists with training lower-level clerks/technicians on miscellaneous technical tasks and various complex actions in support of financial transactions.

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
• May be required to work overtime or an irregular shift
• May occasionally require travel from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft
• This is a Financial Management Leve 1 Certified position IAW the National Defense Authorization Act 2012, Public Law 112-81. Subtitle Financial Management, Section 1599d. Incumbent shall comply with the requirements of this certification program
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
• Superior Qualifications may be considered for this position
• Prior work or active-duty experience to determine leave accrual may be considered for this position

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, Series 0503 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-06, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience includes knowledge of a body of standardized rules, instructions, and regulations to determine reimbursement of charges, entitlements, and correct procedural courses of action regarding Civilian, Military, and Travel Pay; knowledge of accounting terminology, account structure, forms, methods, techniques, and procedures to ensure proper documentation and fund coding of expenses when an understanding of the relationship between items and forms of ledgers is required or for comparable matters. In addition to having skill to examine, compute, and process the full range of agency travel and transportation vouchers sharing major attributes, which involve a number of complicating conditions such as missing documentation and cross referencing of regulations. 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-06 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-07 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 wide range of DOD Financial Regulations (DoD FMR) and Joint Travel Regulation (JTR) procedures. Skill in performing arithmetic computations. Ability to gather, assemble, interpret and analyze financial management information in order to reconcile daily transactions for balancing accounts and to present pertinent financial information in written reports, statements, and platform briefings. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing to a diverse group of individuals. Ability to use computer operations, electronics communications, spreadsheet analysis, and database creation and utilization to prepare reports, schedules, and statements. Knowledge of a variety of Financial Management functional areas and their relationships to other functions to research or investigate problems or errors that require reconciling and reconstructing incomplete information. Ability to operate multiple Information Technology software used in the Financial Management career field. 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

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst 2903 McGuire Blvd JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ 08641 US
• Name: Total Force Service Center
• Phone: 1-800-525-0102
• Email: [email protected]