Civilian Pay Specialist

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About the Position: Incumbent is the primary Defense Civilian Payroll System (DCPS) Customer Service Representative (CSR). Provides payroll liaison activities to over 200 civilian employees.

Serves as an intermediary between the customers (serviced clientele) and the Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) in Charleston, SC and Indianapolis, IN.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities Current U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) employees with competitive status.

Current Civilian Employees of the Command Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Applying knowledge of finance and accounting service regulations and procedures to identify and resolve pay problems; 2) Performing payroll functions such as payroll data input, stored data verification, records review, reconciliation, and initiating corrective actions; and 3) Communicating orally and in writing to answer pay questions, request and verify information, resolve pay issues and discrepancies in records, and to prepare reports or instructions to explain problems to managers.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).

OR Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, etc.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-07).

Major Duties:

• Provides general and technical advice and assistance relative to defense civilian payroll system support policy, planning and procedures.
• Conducts special studies and works on projects which address pay problems/issues encountered across management functional lines for the elimination or reduction of similar problems in the future.
• Receives and analyzes problems relating to automated pay applications.
• Provides technical assistance to regional timekeepers regarding the operations of the on-line Defense Civilian Payroll System (DCPS).
• Maintains/manages automated and manual systems for receiving and processing DCPS reports, and documents received from Defense payroll Office, Charleston, SC and Indianapolis, IN.