- Position Title
- ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN (Title 5)
- Agency
- Army National Guard Units
- Announcement Number
- IL-11162124-AR-21-204 Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Wednesday, July 7, 2021 to Friday, December 31, 2021
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans' Preference?
2.
All on-board federal employees/technicians within the state for which you are applying (Title 32 and Title 5, Permanent and Excepted Indefinite). Are you a current on-board federal employee or technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Tenure in Block 24 (1 or 2).
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Tenure in Block 24 (1 or 2).
3.
All on-board National Guard Title 32 Excepted Technicians within the state for which you are applying (Title 32 Permanent and Excepted Indefinite). Are you a current on-board National Guard Title 32 Excepted Technician within the state for which this position is being advertised?
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Tenure in Block 24 (1 or 2).
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF 50) reflecting your Tenure in Block 24 (1 or 2).
4.
US Citizens. Are you a US Citizen?
Assessment 1
Respond to all questions. For each, choose the response that best describes your experience and/or training. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide in your resume or application.
1.
Specialized Experience: Select the one statement that best describes the education and/or experience that you possess that demonstrates your ability to perform the work of an Accounting Technician at the GS-08 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal Service.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
2.
Coordinate with internal/external financial and program management personnel to resolve issues and/or prevent accounting errors.
3.
Use initiative to guide and inform individuals who are skeptical or uncooperative in order to provide information, take corrective action, and make recommendations to comply with laws and regulations.
4.
Respond to customer requests for information and assistance.
5.
Suggest specific changes to state guidelines themselves, development of control mechanisms, additional training for customers, and specific guidance related to procedural handling of documents and information.
6.
Rely on experience and judgment rather than guides to fill in gaps, identify sources of information, and make working assumptions about what transpired.
7.
Analyze and evaluate data to conduct a variety of fiscal reconciliations, reviews, and account adjustments.
8.
Develop variations in approaches to fit specific functions while often encountering incomplete, unreliable, or conflicting data in the process of work performance.
9.
Validate transactions and performs research to resolve inconsistencies.
10.
Research, interpret, analyze, and apply regulations, policies, procedures, and legal decisions to resolve complex fiscal issues and problems regardless of the technical difficulties encountered.
11.
Use computer master file systems, document processing, and the effects of transactions on existing records to modify processes in accounts while protecting historical data.
12.
Ensure adjustments relating to account balances, contract modifications, collections, disbursements, garnishments, or other actions are performed accurately and timely.
13.
Reconstruct inaccurate accounts, gather, and organize information for inquiries and resolve problems referred by personnel.
14.
Trace transactions identifying the source of discrepancies, develop corrective actions required to bring accounts into agreement.
15.
Compile and verify the accuracy of accounting data to prepare statements and reports, schedules, and comparative analyses of accounting transactions.
16.
Perform fact finding, research, and investigations to identify, analyze, and recommend solutions regarding fiscal accounting activity.
17.
Use fiscal accounting and related interfaced systems to provide input and adjustments to the fiscal accounting database of record.
18.
Your responses in this Assessment Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information will be grounds for disqualifying you or for dismissing you from employment following acceptance. Please take this opportunity to review your responses to ensure their accuracy. If you fail to answer this question, you will be disqualified from consideration for this position. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all of the information included in this questionnaire is true, correct, and provided in good faith. I understand that if I make an intentional false statement, or commit deception or fraud in this application and its supporting materials, or in any document or interview associated with the examination process, I may be fined or imprisoned (18 U.S.C. 1001); my eligibilities may be canceled, I may be denied an appointment, or I may be removed and debarred from Federal service (5 C.F.R. part 731). I understand that any information I give may be investigated. I understand that responding "No" to this item will result in my not being considered for this position.