FINANCIAL TECHNICIAN

You will serve as a FINANCIAL TECHNICIAN in the FUNDS ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTING BRANCH of NETPDC.

Major duties

• You will apply knowledge of financial management regulations, practices, procedure, and policies to technical work performed in support of accounting, budget, or other related financial management work.
• You will use various automated time and leave systems (e.g. SLDCADA) to post, examine, balance, compute, and extract data from records to prepare reports
• You will identify discrepancies in various accounting, budget and/or financial management support assignments.
• You will make corrections to identified problems by applying specific rules, regulations and procedures.
• You will perform customer service representative functions such as resolving pay discrepancies, leave errors, and ensuring all deadlines are met.
• You will provide advice to employees, supervisors, staff in other financial management series and personnel specialists on pay related rules.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the (GS-05) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:1) Applying payroll/leave rules, and automated timekeeping concepts; auditing timecard entries to meet strict bi-weekly submission deadlines; 2) Reviewing invoices, shipping documents, and line-item accounting details against automated databases/ERP systems; verifying funding availability and certifying payments; 3) Providing evaluative monitoring of financial exception/error reports, researching transaction histories, and resolving unmatched disbursements or rejected invoices; and 4) Performing customer service functions such as responding to pay financial inquiries, guiding supervisors on procedural rules, and engaging with external payment centers (e.g., DFAS). Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series and https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0500/financial-clerical-and-assistance-series-0503/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.