- Position Title
- FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5)
- Agency
- Army National Guard Units
- Announcement Number
- MO-11822255-AR-23-033 Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, January 27, 2023 to Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
Assessment 1
Respond to all the questions below. For each question, choose the response below that best describes your experience and/or training. Mark only one response for each question. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide in your resume or application and information your references provide.
1.
Do you possess one year on-the-job experience in financial administration that demonstrates understanding of financial principles and concepts? Skill in collecting data effectively, efficiently, and accurately; ability to clearly enunciate English without impediment of speech that would interfere or prohibit effective communication; ability to write English in reports and presentation formats; ability to communicate clearly and effectively; and skill in applying procedures and directives by reading and interpreting program material.
2.
Do you possess at least 3 months of specialized experience which demonstrates your ability to provide analysis, validate, process and correct financial transactions and issues/problems involving a full range of financial services; and summarize, analyze and evaluate financial data? The specialized experience must indicate you possess a comprehensive knowledge of various integrated automated financial systems to perform complicated evaluations of pay actions and to troubleshoot problem disbursements; and knowledge of commercial contract payment processing, receiving and invoicing procedures to compute commercial vendor payments. Experience in obtaining and interpreting information, organizing and developing clear and meaningful written information.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
3.
Performed broad-in-depth financial analysis of inter-related accounting, logistics and computer file systems concerning pay, accounts payable, and various travel entitlements, using multiple procedures, processes and techniques to evaluate alternatives and arrive at decisions, conclusions and recommendations.
4.
Analyzed diverse financial management technical methods, techniques, precedent cases, and procedures to resolve an extensive range of difficult financial technical issues or problems.
5.
Performed in-depth analysis, complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving substantial corrective action and/or complicated adjustments and resolved issues, including assessing unusual circumstances or conditions.
6.
Utilized experience and judgment, rather than guides, to fill in gaps, identify sources of information, and made working suppositions about what transpired to decide approaches, and resolve specific problems.
7.
Developed variations in approaches to fit specific problems or dealt with incomplete, unreliable or conflicting data in the process of work performance in order to validate transactions and resolve inconsistencies.
8.
Analyzed particular facts of financial transaction problems/issues, verified and evaluated data; obtained additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies; and applied pertinent fiscal laws, regulations, precedent decisions, and procedures to determine appropriate action for resolution.
9.
Performed research regarding many different and unrelated processes and methods relating to financial transactions for analysis of complex and unusual financial transactions.
10.
Analyzed and resolved tax processing problems based on soldier inquiries or internal control audits/reviews, ranging from Permanent Change of Station (PCS) issues and combat tax exclusion pay to refunds of erroneous tax collections.
11.
Ensured complex tax issues involving tax documents, Do It Yourself (DITY) moves, and Relocation Income Tax Allowance (RITA) payments were accomplished accurately and timely.
12.
Interpreted data to identify problems, determined nature of the problem or issue, decided approaches to use to resolve issues, and recommended solutions for systemic changes to enhance operations.
13.
Used independent judgment to reconstruct incomplete files, devise more efficient methods for procedural processing, gather and organize information for inquiries, or resolve problems referred by others.
14.
Interpreted user requirements in designing new ad hoc reports or modifications to standard financial and management systems, resulting from regulatory, system, or force structure changes.
15.
Researched, interpreted, analyzed, and applied regulations, policies, procedures and legal decisions to work and/or resolve complex financial issues/problems.
16.
Performed or conducted research, investigated and solved problems involving reconciliations of discrepancies (Electronic Funds Transfer rejects, pay/personnel/travel mismatches) to identify, analyze and provide solutions regarding multiple entitlements, payments to personnel in various duty statuses and assorted payments to commercial vendors, including computation of interest due.
17.
Sorted complicated factual information and applied a variety of financial methods to resolve issues.
18.
Performed complicated actions to solve problems associated with processing actions regarding multiple pay, travel, and accounts payable financial systems.
19.
Determined appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting from multiple military and civilian statuses, to include: Title 10 active duty; Title 32 Inactive Duty for Training (IDT), Annual Training (AT), Active Duty for Training (ADT), Active Guard and Reserve (AGR), and Active Duty for Operational Support (ADOS (includes Defense Support to Civilian Authorities (DSCA) operations).
20.
Executed unique and special pay and entitlement actions in order to provide the appropriate entitlements, such as Base Pay; Basic Allowance, Housing (BAH); Basic Allowance, Subsistence (BAS); Incapacitation Pay (INCAP); Family Separation Allowance (FSA); Hazardous Duty Pay; Hostile Fire Pay; Combat Zone Tax Exclusion (CZTE); Special Duty Assignment Pay (SDAP); Student Loan Repayment Program (SLRP); incentive (bonus) pay; Invitational Travel Authorization (ITA); Jury Duty; child support; wage garnishments; allotments; survivor benefits; and incentive pays (Jump Pay, Medical Pay, Flight Pay, Foreign Language Proficiency Pay).
21.
Analyzed and processed transactions directly with U.S. Treasury and local financial institutions to ensure credits and collections were accomplished in a timely manner in accordance with law, regulation and policy.
22.
Applied information derived from personnel management systems to ensure proper pay and entitlements to Soldiers and civilians.
23.
Supported Soldier Readiness Processing (SRP) with face to face interviews to conduct personal records review and ensure effective transition to Title 10 duty with accurate pay and entitlements.
24.
Used computer master file systems, document processing and the effects of transactions on existing records to modify normal automated processes while protecting historical data.
25.
Ensured accuracy of modifications relating to payments, contract modifications, accessions, separations, collections, disbursements, garnishments, electronic fund transfer changes, and out of service debts or other actions involving complicated adjustments.
26.
Determined appropriate travel entitlements for multiple duty statuses and situations including Temporary Duty (TDY), local travel, and Permanent Change of Station (PCS).
27.
Determined appropriate payments to vendors by applying Prompt Payment Act, tax law, contract law, account code structure, invoice processes, and Grants and Cooperative Agreement regulations and guidelines.
28.
Audited the full range of pay, travel, and accounts payable authorizations and entitlements to determine compliance with multiple laws, regulations, policies and issuances.
29.
Scheduled, run, and analyzed various financial system reports, such as daily activity reports, error/reject reports, status reports, discrepancy and mismatch reports, transaction reports, and ad hoc reports.
30.
Do you certify that all of your responses to this questionnaire are true and accurate; and do you accept that if your supporting documentation does not support one or more of your responses to the questionnaire that your application may be rated lower or you may be removed from further consideration?