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FINANCE TECHNICIAN

Bureau of Naval Personnel

Department of the Navy

Fresh

Location

Salary

$46,610 - $51,957

per year

Closes

April 3, 2026

GS-6 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $37,764 - $49,094

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-5. Bachelor's degree + some experience.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves handling financial tasks like maintaining accounts, verifying documents, and processing payroll for civilian employees in the Navy.

It supports budgeting and ensures everything complies with rules for payments and services.

A good fit would be someone with basic accounting or clerical experience who pays close attention to details and enjoys organized office work.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-05 (for GS-06 level), including using accounting systems, codes, and methods
  • Knowledge of civilian pay and leave rules, regulations, and systems
  • Ability to examine invoices, vouchers, and documents for accuracy and compliance
  • Experience providing financial management support, such as sorting documents, maintaining files, or identifying discrepancies (for GS-05 level)
  • Skills in account maintenance, reconciliation, and preparing financial reports
  • Familiarity with payroll records, pay adjustments, and budget administration
  • Attention to detail for verifying signatures, processing codes, and data extraction

Full Job Description

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer.

Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

For the GS-06: Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Utilizing accounting systems, standard accounting codes, classifications and terminology and the ability to apply various accounting methods and techniques; 2) Enforcing procedures and regulations required to examine invoices, voucher, and related documents; and 3) Applying civilian pay and leave rules, regulations procedures, programs and systems, and civilian personnel rules and regulations that affect pay.

NOTE: All experience must be fully demonstrated in your resume to be considered for the position.

For the GS-05: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-04 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector providing financial management support (e.g., sorting financial documents, maintaining files, and/or identifying data discrepancies) to support accounting, budgetary, or payroll functions.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0500/financial-clerical-and-assistance-series-0503/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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. Major Duties:

  • You will perform account maintenance and accounting support work; examine, verify and maintain and reconcile accounts and accounting data, prepare and analyze reports.
  • You will examine documents for accuracy to ensure compliance with regulations for goods and services, fulfilling contractual obligations.
  • You will review to determine signature authentication and correct processing codes.
  • You will review and determine pay, payroll records maintenance and completion of reports pertaining to civilian employees of the Federal Government.
  • You will post, examine, balance, and extract data from records to prepare reports.
  • You will perform work to establish, maintain, correct and close pay accounts; i.e. in and out processing, pay inquires, reviewing pay debts, and adjustments.
  • You will perform technician work in support of budget analysis and administration such as maintain ledgers, compiling, consolidating, checking and arranging funding data.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/20/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/20/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DE-12914453-26-CLS