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Financial Services Technician

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Department of Defense
Current NDARNG Enlisted members Permanent Full Time The National Guard is the oldest component of the Armed Forces of the United States and one of the nation's longest-enduring institutions. Since the earliest American colonial days, citizens have joined together for collective defense.We have a proud tradition of coming to the aid of our friends and neighbors in times of serious emergencies. Join the North Dakota National Guard team and serve your nation, North Dakota and your community!
# NORTH DAKOTA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
This position is open to current NDARNG Enlisted Members.
Location: USPFO, Bismarck, ND
Selecting Official: MAJ Ann Willoughby, Supervisory Financial Technician
Resume must be received by midnight EST: Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Compatibility: ENL: 25B, 51C, 92A, 92Y, 92Z
Failure to provide complete application material will result in you not recieving consideration for this position.
Please refer to the qualification and evaluation section of this announcement to understand the qualification requirement, and the HOW TO APPLY SECTION for detailed instruction on applying.
NORTH DAKOTA NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED: This is an excepted position that requires membership in a compatible military assignment in theNational Guard. Selectee will be required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment. Applicants who are not currently a member of the National Guard must be eligible for immediate membership and employment in the National Guard in the military grade listed in this announcement.
Position Description Number: D1986000
(1) 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 and recommendations. Analyzes diverse financial management technical methods, techniques, precedent cases, and procedures to resolve an extensive range of difficult financial technical issues or problems.
(2) 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 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. 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 and resolve inconsistencies.
(3)__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.
(4) Analyzes and resolves 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. Ensures complex tax issues involving tax documents, Do It Yourself (DITY) moves, and Relocation Income Tax Allowance (RITA) payments are accomplished accurately and timely.
(5) 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.
(6) Researches, interprets, analyzes, and applies regulations, policies, procedures and legal decisions to work and/or resolve complex financial issues/problems.
(7) 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.
(8) Performs complicated actions to solve problems associated with processing actions regarding multiple pay, travel, and accounts payable financial systems. Incumbent 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.
(9) Performs 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.
(10) Determines appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting from multiple military and civilian statuses
(11) Analyzes and processes 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.
(12) Applies information derived from personnel management systems to ensure proper pay and entitlements to Soldiers and civilians. Supports 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.
(13) Uses computer master file systems, document processing and the effects of transactions on existing records to modify normal automated processes while protecting historical data. Determines appropriate travel entitlements for multiple duty statuses and situations including Temporary Duty (TDY), local travel, and Permanent Change of Station (PCS).
(14) 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.
(15) Audits the full range of pay, travel, and accounts payable authorizations and entitlements to determine compliance with multiple laws, regulations, policies and issuances.
(16) Schedules, runs, and analyzes various financial system reports, such as daily activity reports, error/reject reports, status reports, discrepancy and mismatch reports.
GENERAL
Experience: Experience, education, or training in progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work which demonstrates your ability to communicate with individuals at different levels in order to assist and provide information. Experience using computers and automated systems.
SPECIALIZED
Experience: Must indicate 9 months (GS-06) 12 months (GS-07); 18 months (GS-08) of specialized experience for each of the following experiences. PLEASE NOTE: Your answers will be compared and verified against the information you provide on your resume.
1. Experience which demonstrates a skill in analyzing and evaluating data for review.
2. Experience which demonstrates the ability to obtain and present informtion in a clear and meaningful manner.
3 Experience which demonstrates the ability to plan, organize and coordinate related financial work to attain mission objectives.
4. Experience which demonstrates the ability to communicate with units in the field and supervisors at all levels throughout the organization .
##### EDUCATION SUBSTITUTION: A maximum of 12 months of the required experience may be substituted by successful completion of undergraduate study in an accredited a college or university. The education must be directly related to the type of work of the position.
##### Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
##### Time and placement is dependent upon resourcing from National Guard Bureau.
##### Military Technicians in the excepted service will wear the military uniform appropriate to their service and grade when performing as a technician. They will comply with the appearance and weight standards contained in the appropriate regulation.
##### VETERANS PREFERENCE: The National Guard Technician Act of 1968 (PL 90-486) specifically excludes use of veterans preference for appointments made under the authority of 32 USC 709. All appointments in the NDNG are made under Title 32 USC; therefore, Veterans Preference is not applicable.
##### Individual recommended for the position will not be approved for appointment until the appropriate physical examination is completed and approved. The results of the physical may be shared with the individual's military chain of command.
##### Individual selected for the position will be required to obtain a secret security clearance.
##### PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION (PCS) expenses will not be authorized for this position.
Once the application process is complete, a review of your application will be made to ensure you meet the job requirements. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the occupational questionnaire. The rating you receive is based on your responses and compared to your resume and supporting documents.
If, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating.
A typed or neatly printed detailed narrative of your work experiences (paid or unpaid), training, education, and/or other information that relates to the position advertised should be included within your resume or as a separate document. Use complete dates to indicate the amount of experience you have. A complete date consists of MM/DD/YY. If written as MM/YY, then credit can only be given for the last day of the month to the first day of the month (i.e. 12/97 to 4/98 would be credited as 12/31/97 to 4/1/98); by giving just years (i.e. 1998-1999) credit will only be given from 12/31/98 to 1/1/99. Include pertinent military experiences, describe duties in your own words. The Qualification process will grant credit only for sufficient information. You may use continuation pages to include all related experience. Ensure that both military and civilian experiences are fully described, including time frames. _REMEMBER: COMPLETE DATES MUST BE USED_ .
_Method of Evaluating Qualifications_ :Candidates are evaluated on the experiences in the vacancy announcement. Failure to address the experiences may deem the applicant not qualified for the position . In addressing each experience you should describe, accurately and completely, the tasks, activities, education, and experience which demonstrates the experience. Include all military experience (Active Duty and Reserve Component), qualifications or training in a MOS/AFSC. Be specific as to the MOS/AFSC you possess and number of months experience. The number of months of actual experience is the qualifying factor. Education may be substituted and combined with experience as defined in the Education Substitution section of the announcement.
These documents can be uploaded via Application Manager as other documents.
HOW TO APPLY:
To apply for this position, you must provide both of the following parts:
1. Your responses to the Qualifications Questionnaire,and
2. Your r sum and any other documents specified in the Required Documents Section of this Job
Announcement.
Use the Online Qualifications Questionnaire for convenience and quickest processing.
Option A: Online Qualifications Questionnaire.
To begin your Online Qualifications Questionnaire:
Sign into your USAJOBS account; you begin the process by clicking the _Apply Online_ button. Your
R sum will be attached _only_ to the Online Qualifications Questionnaire you complete and _Submit_ from
this session, not to any Questionnaires you may already have Saved or Submitted.
Option B: PaperQualifications Questionnaire.
If it is not practical for you to use the Online Qualifications Questionnaire, you can write your answers on paper.
Follow these steps:
1. You can print a copy of this job announcement so that you can read the questions offline.
2. Obtainand print a copy of the OPM Form 1203-FX, which you will use to provide your answers. You can
obtain the form at this URL or by calling _USAJOBS_
by Phone at -after the introduction, press 1, and listen for instructions.
3. You may submit the Form 1203-FX, r sum , and any supporting documents by fax.
By Fax: If you are faxing a Form 1203-FX, you do not need a separate cover sheet. Simply make sure the Form 1203-FX is on top of any other documents you are faxing. If you are faxing any documents without the Form 1203-FX on top, always use the official cover sheet which is here -- -- and be sure to fill it outcompletely and clearly. The fax number is . Feed all documents into your fax machine top first so that we receive them right-side up.
For this job announcement the following documents are required:
Current Resume
Questionnaire
Justification to questionnaire if not addressed within the body of resume.
To submit the documents requested follow the instructions below: Yourresume, curriculum vitae, the or any other written format you choose to describe your job-related qualifications. Your document(s) can be submitted electronically using the document upload process or by fax. Please ensure that your resume contains your full name, address, phone and at least your last four digits of your social security number.
Once the online questionnaire is received you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful. After a reveiw of your complete application is made you will be notified of your rating and or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluation or interviews are required you will be contacted.
Instructions for completing the OPM 1203-FX:
If you are applying to this announcement by completing the OPM 1203-FX form instead of using the Online Application method, please use the following step-by-step instructions as a guide to filling out the required questionnaire. You will need to print the vacancy announcement and refer to it as you answer the questions. You may omit any optional information; however, you must provide responses to all required questions. Be sure to double check your application before submission.
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1. If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/59 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
2. Please do not send/fax/courier/email any applications or resumes to the National Guard Human Resource Office, you must apply on-line or fax your application to the fax number listed on this announcement with the prescribed Cover Letter. The Human Resource can only process materials received through USA Jobs.
Acceptance of a Permanent or Indefinite Appointment with the NDNG will terminate enrollment in the Tri-Care Reserve Select Health Benefits program. Federal Law does not permit employee who are eligible for Federal Employee Health Insurance to carry Tri-Care Reserve health insurance.
Appointment to this position will be made at the beginning of a bi-weekly pay period. Applicants MUST understand that Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB), although may be elected within the 1st pay period of employment, are not effective until the pay period after they make their election. Election for FEHB must be made within 60 days from the 1st day of appoinment. Technician pay periods are 14 days in duration.
Acceptance of a Permanent or Indefinite Excepted service position will cause termination from Selected Reserve Incentive Program (SRIP) and Military Bonus Programs (Recoupement is dependent on type of bonus individual has.) Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.

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