FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 32)
Department: Department of the Army
Location(s): Raleigh, North Carolina
Salary Range: $57777 - $75115 Per Year
Job Summary: This National Guard position is for a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 32), Position Description Number D1986000 and is part of the NC USPFO, National Guard (USPFO - Pay & Exam Branch / MD 1525-420).
Major Duties:
- As a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 32), GS-0503-8, will perform 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; perform in-depth analysis, complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving substantial corrective action and/or complicated adjustments and resolves issues, including assessing unusual circumstances or conditions. Utilizes experience and judgment, rather than guides, to fill in gaps, identify sources of information, and make working suppositions about what transpired to decide approaches, and resolve specific problems; analyze particular facts of financial transaction problems/issues, verifies and evaluates data; obtains additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies; and applies pertinent fiscal laws, regulations, precedent decisions, and procedures to determine appropriate action for resolution; analyze and resolve 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; interpret data to identify problems, determines nature of the problem or issue, decides approaches to use to resolve issues, and recommends solutions for systemic changes to enhance operations; research, interprets, analyzes, and applies regulations, policies, procedures and legal decisions to work and/or resolve complex financial issues/problems; perform or conduct research, investigates and solves 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; perform complicated actions to solve problems associated with processing actions regarding multiple pay, travel, and accounts payable financial systems; perform varied duties, involving financial services payment systems (travel, accounts payable, and pay; i.e. Joint Uniform Military Pay System Uniform Standard Terminal Input System (JUMPS), Operational Data Store (ODS), Standard Financial System ReDesign1 (SRD1), Defense Travel System (DTS), Integrated Automated Travel System (IATS), etc., by applying a series of different and unrelated methods, processes and techniques involving established financial management systems; determine appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting from multiple military and civilian statuses; analyze and process transactions directly with U.S. Treasury and local financial institutions to ensure credits and collections are accomplished in a timely manner in accordance with law, regulation and policy; apply information derived from personnel management systems to ensure proper pay and entitlements to Soldiers and civilians; use computer master file systems, document processing and the effects of transactions on existing records to modify normal automated processes while protecting historical data; determine 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; audit the full range of pay, travel, and accounts payable authorizations and entitlements to determine compliance with multiple laws, regulations, policies and issuances; schedule, run, and analyze various financial system reports, such as daily activity reports, error/reject reports, status reports, discrepancy and mismatch reports, transaction reports, and ad hoc reports; responds to requests for assistance/information from multiple sources. Perform other duties as assigned. .
Qualifications: Military Grades: Enlisted (E4 to E6) SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: (Must have at least 3 months) of basic finance program training or competencies that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; a qualified candidate must understand the basic principles and concepts of the National Guard financial business program requirements; an applicant should have successfully completed the military finance program technical training school and was awarded the applicable MOS and have finance program experiences along with competencies that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; a candidate must have experiences and training that demonstrate the abilities to follow directions, to read, retain, and understand a variety of instructions, regulations, policies and procedures; the applicant must have the specialized experiences in providing analysis, validation, processing and correction of financial transactions; experienced in the identification of issues/problems involving the full range of financial services; skilled in working with ARNG inter-related systems and processes across multiple functional areas and their interoperability to ensure the validity and accuracy of all disbursements, collections, and adjustments related to financial records.
How to Apply: To apply for this position, you must complete the online application/Occupational Questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupational Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12827021 A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process. You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application. To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each Application Status means, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/.
Application Deadline: 2025-11-14