ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN (TITLE 32)

Full Job Description

This is a National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service Position.

This is an Indefinite GS-0525-08 ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN (TITLE 32), Position Description Number D1984000 and is part of the MO United States Property and Fiscal Office.

This is a bargaining unit position. SEE NOTES UNDER CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT BELOW.

MILITARY REQUIREMENTS: Selected candidate must currently be assigned to a military unit in the Missouri Army National Guard.

Title 32 employees will not be militarily senior to their full-time supervisor (grade inversion).

GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Must possess experience, validating accounting data, analyzing unusual trends for corrective action, maintaining and researching records, preparing reports, and correcting coding or other errors that result in computer generated rejects GS-08 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 grade level that provided skill applying basic principles of budgetary and cost accounting; ability to examine accounts and resolve difficult reconciliations; ability to reconstruct inaccurate accounts; and gather and organize information for inquiries.

This is a Financial Management Level Certified position IAW the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012, Public Law 112-81, Subtitle F-Financial Management, Section 1599d.

Incumbent shall comply with the requirements of this certification program.

Certification Level 1: THIS IS A FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Level 1 Certified position designated as such in accordance with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012, Public Law 112-81, Subtitle F-Financial Management, section 1051, amending 10 United States Code, section 1599d.

Incumbent of this position is required to comply with all Department of Defense requirements of this certification program.

This certification requirement is a condition of employment for this position. Failure to obtain this certification within the required time may subject the incumbent to adverse action. Major Duties:

• Performs broad in-depth analysis on multiple management systems and applies this information to complicated precedent type cases to resolve especially difficult and sensitive associated with processing actions within accounting systems.
• Analyzes and evaluates data to conduct a variety of fiscal reconciliations, reviews, and account adjustments.
• Reconciles accounting and budget data with Program Managers and the USPFO Deputy Financial Manager/Budget Officer. Balances all Program Managers’ accounts with the federal database of record.
• Performs fact finding, research, and investigations to identify, analyze and recommend solutions regarding fiscal accounting activity.
• Analyzes particular facts of fiscal transaction problems/issues; verifies, evaluates, and interprets considerable amounts of 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.
• Relies often on experience and judgment rather than guides to fill in gaps, identify sources of information and make working assumptions about what transpired.
• Applies many different and unrelated processes and methods associated with fiscal transactions to analyze complex and unusual accounting transactions.
• Reconstruct inaccurate accounts, gathers and organizes information for inquiries and resolves problems referred by managers, employees, congressional inquiries.
• Suggests specific changes to state guidelines themselves, development of control mechanisms, additional training for customers, and specific guidance related to the procedural handling of documents and information.
• Coordinates with internal/external financial/program management personnel to resolve issues and/or prevent accounting errors.
• Uses initiative to guide and inform and persuade individuals who are skeptical or uncooperative, in order to provide information, take corrective action, and provide findings, and/or recommendations/solutions.
• Researches, interprets, analyzes, and applies regulations, policies, procedures and legal decisions to work and/or resolve complex fiscal issues/problems regardless of the technical difficulties encountered.
• Uses fiscal accounting and related interfaced systems to provide input/adjustments to the fiscal accounting database of record.
• Makes independent decisions regarding processes involving unusual circumstances or conditions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.