Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities. Our highly-skilled, diverse, and innovative workforce creates a strong foundation of safety and security. Through the principles of humanity and normalcy, we develop good neighbors.

Duties

Serves as a Financial Program Specialist in a regional office within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Responsible for the accurate and timely processing of financial records, as well as the verification and submission of various financial reports for the regional office. Through utilization of the Financial Management Information System (FMIS), the incumbent enters obligation changes to cost centers, ensuring the appropriate documentation exists for all entries, as well as, reviews the automated recordings of obligations, making any adjustments necessary to the computer feeds, to ensure the FMIS financial reports are reliable. Responsible for monitoring, reviewing and processing all obligations for accuracy and timeliness. Provides expertise on, and makes manual FMIS entries through the use of over five hundred transaction codes.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is Required.
• See Special Conditions of Employment Section.
• Selective Service Requirement: http://www.sss.gov

Qualifications

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements: Education: GL-07: One year of graduate level education or superior academic achievement. GL-09: Masters or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related. OR Experience: GL-07 and GL-09: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in the normal line of progress for the occupation in the organization. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the specific qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled. Some examples of qualifying experience are: GL-07: Experience with automation financial management systems to ascertain accurately the effect of transactions recorded in systems and reports, examine evaluate, reconcile and resolve historical financial transactions. Knowledge of information technology software and hardware sufficient to analyze financial activities and develop and charts functional logic for new and revised automated financial management systems. Experience with analyzing problems to identify significant factors, gather pertinent data, and recognize solutions. Experience assisting program area to build, maintain, and enhance systems or programs. GL-09: Experience with accounting and budgeting principles, concepts, theories and practices, and financial reporting and standards for federal agencies. Experience working with accounting and budgeting techniques, procedures and their applications. Experience that demonstrates knowledge of appropriation laws as they apply to Federal Government obligations and payments. Experience helping process improvement evaluations, identify root cause issues, and provide recommendations for improvement in policies, procedures, customer services and program management. Experience interpreting guidelines and adapting guidelines, such as agency policies, regulations, precedents, and work directions, for application to specific cases or problems. OR Combination of Education and Experience: GL-07 and GL-09: Have a combination of education and experience. This experience must have equipped you with the qualifications to perform the major duties of this position as described above. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities. **Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**

Education

See Qualifications Section for education requirements, if applicable.

ONLY if education is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verification of educational requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, Click Here.

Foreign Education: For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department of Education website: Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.

Superior Academic Achievement. (S.A.A.) applicants MUST provide a transcript in order to be considered under S.A.A. 

In order to be creditable under this provision, superior academic achievement must have been gained in a curriculum that is qualifying for the position to be filled.

If you are selected for this position and qualified based on education (i.e. basic education requirement and/or substitution of education), you will be required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.

Contacts

• Address JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS Consolidated Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 United States
• Name: CSU
• Phone: 972-352-4200
• Email: [email protected]