Job opening: FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN

Salary: $54 292 - 70 578 per year

City: Helena

Published at: May 14 2024

Employment Type: Full-time

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE BARGAINING UNIT POSITION. This position is for a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN, Position Description Number T5132000 and is part of the Montana Army National Guard, G8. (PD can be obtained from HRO.) Selected candidates will NOT be required to be a member of the Montana Army National Guard. Selecting Official: Shawn Wadsworth Also advertised: MT-12414345-T5-24-154 (Open to the public, Veterans' Preference DOES apply)

Duties

Performs 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 & recommendations. Analyzes diverse financial management technical methods, techniques, precedent cases, and procedures to resolve an extensive range of difficult financial technical issues or problems. Performs 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 & judgment to fill in gaps, identify sources of information, and make working suppositions about what transpired to decide approaches, and resolve specific problems. Develops variations in approaches to fit specific problems or deals with incomplete, unreliable or conflicting data in the process of work performance in order to validate transactions & resolve inconsistencies. Analyzes 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. Performs research regarding many different and unrelated processes and methods relating to financial transactions for analysis of complex and unusual financial transactions. Analyzes results, applies personal initiative and judgment to make recommendations, which may result in changing guidelines affecting internal, state, and NGB level processes and procedures. Analyzes and resolves tax processing problems based on soldier inquiries or internal control audits/reviews. Ensures complex tax issues involving tax documents, Do It Yourself moves, and Relocation Income Tax Allowance payments are accomplished accurately & timely. Interprets 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. Uses 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. Interprets user requirements in designing new ad hoc reports or modifications to standard financial and management systems, resulting from regulatory, system, or force structure changes. Researches, interprets, analyzes, and applies regulations, policies, procedures and legal decisions to work and/or resolve complex financial issues/problems. Uses public law, fiscal law, DoD, Department of the Army, Forces Command, NGB, and Defense Finance and Accounting Service regulations, SOPs, Comptroller General Decisions, and policies and issuances to execute the full range of financial and commercial services. Performs or conducts research, investigates and solves problems involving reconciliations of discrepancies 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. Performs complicated actions to solve problems associated with processing actions regarding multiple pay, travel, and accounts payable financial systems. Uses related financial regulations and rulings covering diverse types of transactions to function as the technical authority for resolving an extensive range of financial issues or problems. Analyzes and develops a variety of new or established techniques and methods to evaluate alternatives and arrive at decisions, conclusions, and recommendations that enhance operations. Determines appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting from multiple military and civilian statuses. Analyzes and processes transactions directly with U.S. Treasury and local financial institutions to ensure credits and collections are accomplished in a timely manner IAW law, regulation and policy. Applies information derived from personnel management systems to ensure proper pay and entitlements to Soldiers and civilians. Supports Soldier Readiness Processing with face-to-face interviews to conduct personal records review and ensure effective transition to Title 10 duty with accurate pay and entitlements. Determines appropriate travel entitlements for multiple duty statuses and situations. Determines 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.

Requirements

Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
External applicants must be able to start within 6 months of selection.
This position is a FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT LEVEL 1 Certified position designated IAW the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012, Public Law 112-81, Subtitle F-Financial Management, section 1051, amending 10 United States Code, section 1599d.
Must be able to obtain FM Level 1 certification within 24 months of appointment.
Must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance of the position.

Qualifications

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must possess at least one year experience equivalent to the next lowest grade level which provided fundamental working experiences with a validated understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the occupational series and grade.