Who may apply: United States Citizens This position is located in: IT DIR OFFICE, ACCOUNTING SERVICES, AIR FORCE SYSTEMS, DIFMS/NIMMS SYS ANLYS & TECH SPT BR, ZTCBB

Duties

The incumbent conducts independent fact finding, studies, and surveys related to a specific module, phase, or work process of a major financial system. Identifies systems problems and recommends solutions including data changes and / or system software changes Incumbent assists in project evaluation efforts and performs/monitors development of system changes to ensure proper coordination among all customer organizations. Incumbent plans, develops, and conducts projects involving operational/system changes caused by legislative, regulatory, or policy changes. Incumbent coordinates with programming staff to establish test plans including regression testing and, executes such tests to verify the quality of software changes. Incumbent analyzes and elicits system requirements to assess consistency, completeness, validity, reliability and impact on system integrity and defines software changes.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S Citizen or National
• Background or Security Investigation - see the Additional Information field below for more details.
• Registered for Selective Service (males born after 12-31-1959)
• Suitable for Federal employment
• Obtain/Maintain Financial Management Certification
• New employees to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov.

Qualifications

This position is being filled under the Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense via delegated authority by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. We reserve the right to close this announcement early or to extend, as appropriate, based upon the needs of the Agency. Qualified application packages may be referred to management at various points in the selection process depending on the number and timing of applications received. Selections may be made at any point during the announcement open period. One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade GS-11 within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required. Specialized experience is defined as: applying auditing principles, techniques, policies and regulations with the objective of improving the information technology control environment of financial/accounting systems; identifying, documenting and recommending, improving systemic control environments of financial/accounting systems; conducting internal assessments of financial/accounting systems automated controls; identifying, documenting, recommending and implementing system improvements and corrective actions and preparing and executing software test plans and System Change Requests for financial/accounting systems. You may qualify for consideration if meeting time-in grade, specialized experience, education requirement, 90 days after competitive appointment requirement, and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement, unless otherwise indicated on the announcement.

Education

There is no substitution for experience at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address DFAS - INFO AND TECHNOLOGY DIR OFFICE 4800 Mark Center Drive Alexandria, VA 22350 US
• Name: HR Customer Care Center
• Phone: (317) 212-0454
• Email: [email protected]