Financial Services Technician

Quick Facts

• Position purpose: Provide analysis, validation, processing, and correction of financial transactions and issues affecting a full range of financial services.

• Focus areas: disbursements, collections, adjustments, pay, accounts payable, travel entitlements, and complex tax processing.

Description

The Financial Services Technician uses inter-related financial, personnel, and computer file systems to ensure the validity and accuracy of financial transactions and payments. The role performs complex analysis and reconciliation work, applies applicable fiscal laws and regulations (including DoD/DA/NGB/DFAS guidance), and resolves unusual or sensitive issues affecting pay, travel, accounts payable, and taxes. The technician may also interpret requirements to build ad hoc reports or modify standard systems to improve processing.

Responsibilities

• Perform broad-in-depth analysis of inter-related accounting, logistics, and computer file systems related to pay, accounts payable, and travel entitlements.

• Resolve complex payment issues using judgment to reconstruct incomplete files, reconcile discrepancies, and determine appropriate corrective actions.

• Conduct research and interpret regulations, policies, procedures, and legal decisions to support decisions and recommendations.

• Analyze and resolve tax processing problems, including PCS issues, combat tax exclusion pay, and refunds of erroneous tax collections.

• Ensure complex tax issues related to tax documents, DITY moves, and RITA payments are completed accurately and timely.

• Reconcile discrepancies such as Electronic Funds Transfer rejects and pay/personnel/travel mismatches; compute interest where required.

• Perform technical processing across financial services payment systems (e.g., JUMPS, ODS, SRD1, DTS, IATS) to resolve issues across multiple systems.

Requirements

• Mandatory direct deposit participation.

• Ability to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance.

• May require work outside normal duty hours; overtime may be required.

• Selective Service registration is required for eligible male applicants born after December 31, 1959.

• Specialized experience and relevant foundational knowledge of the occupational series are required.

• Demonstrated competence applying financial regulations, policies, and legal decisions to validate transactions and resolve inconsistencies.

• Knowledge of pay/allowances/entitlements across Title 10 and Title 32 statuses, including special pay and tax-related situations.

• Knowledge of personnel regulations and personnel management systems that interface with financial management.

• Financial Management Certification program compliance is a condition of employment (achieve required level within required timeframe).

• If education is used for qualification, provide proof from accredited sources (transcripts/documentation as required).

Benefits

A federal government benefits package is provided. Eligibility depends on the position type and employee status; details are available from the hiring agency.