FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5)

FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5)

Department: Department of the Army

Location(s): Springfield, Illinois

Salary Range: $55882 - $72644 Per Year

Job Summary: THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5), Position Description Number T5132000 and is part of the IL USPFO, National Guard.

Major Duties:

• As a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5), GS-0503-8, you will: Provide analysis, validation, processing, and correction of financial transactions and issues involving a full range of financial services. Respond to requests for assistance/information from multiples sources. Determine appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting from multiple military and civilian statuses. Train customers on pay and travel entitlements and associated systems, processes, and reports. Analyze diverse financial management technical methods, techniques, precedent cases, and procedures to resolve an extensive range of difficult financial technical issues or problems. Perform in-depth analysis on complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving substantial corrective action and/or complicated adjustments and resolves issues. Analyze particular facts of financial transaction problems and issues, verify and evaluate data. Analyze results, apply personal initiative and judgment to make recommendations, which may result in changing guidelines. Analyze and resolve tax processing problems based on inquiries or internal control audits and reviews. Support Soldier Readiness Processing with face to face interviews to conduct personal records review and ensure accurate pay and entitlements. 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. Audit the full range of pay, travel, and accounts payable authorizations and entitlements to determine compliance with multiples laws, regulations, policies, and issuances. Interpret data to identify problems, determine nature of the problem or issue, decide approaches to use to resolve issues. Use independent judgment to reconstruct incomplete files, devise more efficient methods for procedural processing and gather and organize information for inquires to resolve issues. Perform or conduct research, investigate and solve problems involving reconciliations of discrepancies to identify, analyze, and provide solutions regarding entitlements Schedule, run, and analyze various financial system reports such as daily activity reports, error/reject reports, status reports, and other relevant financial reports. Determine appropriate payments to vendors by applying appropriate laws, regulations, and guidelines. **This is NOT an all-inclusive list of duties.**

Qualifications: AREAS OF CONSIDERATION: The areas of consideration for this position, Title 5 Excepted Service, will be in the following manner and sequence: The FIRST area of consideration for this position will be candidates who match through the Priority Placement Program (PPP). The SECOND area of consideration will be Veterans' Preference (VP) eligible. The THIRD area of consideration will be all excepted permanent and indefinite temporary technicians within the ILNG. The FOURTH area of consideration will be all current Federal Employees. The FIFTH area of consideration will be all Federal re-employment eligible. The SIXTH area of consideration will be U.S. Citizens. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-08 Level - MUST possess specialized experience which includes basic finance program training or competencies that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; an understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the National Guard financial business program requirements; private or public finance program experiences, along with competencies, that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures; ability to follow directions, to read, retain, and understand a variety of instructions, regulations, policies and procedures; experience providing analysis, validation, processing and correction of financial transactions; experience identifying issues/problems involving the full range of financial services; experience ensuring the validity and accuracy of all disbursements, collections, and adjustments related to financial records; experience performing pay analysis of complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving corrective actions; experience reviewing complicated pay adjustments; experience analyzing particular facts of financial transaction problems/issues and obtaining additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies; knowledgeable of pertinent fiscal laws, regulations, precedent decisions, and procedures to determine appropriate action for resolution; experience resolving tax processing problems; experience resolving complex tax issues involving tax documents; and experience performing finance work that involved appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements In order to be considered qualified, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in Federal service. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Verbiage displayed on your resume or application must contain your own words. You may refer to position descriptions, i.e. the general and specialized experience located within the vacancy announcement, to assist with describing work experiences; however, resumes or applications received in verbatim will not be considered. In your resume you will need to address the general and specialized experience listed below. Please use as much detail as needed, giving dates (months and years) of the experience, position title and how the experience was gained. This information is needed to determine if you are qualified for the position.

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/12947372 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: 2027-04-29