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Posted: January 22, 2026 (1 day ago)

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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANALYST

Defense Finance and Accounting Service

Department of Defense

Fresh

Salary

$50,930 - $100,361

per year

Closes

February 4, 2026

GS-5 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $33,878 - $44,042

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience. Bachelor's degree.

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

Job Description

Summary

This role involves reviewing financial processes, analyzing reports, and ensuring compliance with rules in a government defense accounting agency.

It supports managers by spotting issues in financial systems and suggesting improvements to keep operations running smoothly.

It's a good fit for detail-oriented people with some experience in finance or accounting who enjoy problem-solving in a structured federal environment.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower GS grade (GS-05 for GS-07, GS-07 for GS-09, GS-09 for GS-11) in federal service
  • Knowledge of financial laws, principles, systems, policies, methods, and practices
  • Ability to research and interpret financial regulations to resolve issues and provide recommendations
  • Experience analyzing financial reports, data, and systems to identify discrepancies and weaknesses
  • Skills in evaluating operations, internal controls, and recommending process improvements for compliance
  • Time-in-Grade requirement: 52 weeks at the prior grade level within the last 52 weeks for current/former federal employees
  • Successful completion of USA Hire Assessment

Full Job Description

This job announcement uses the USA Hire Assessment to evaluate applicants. For more information, visit USA Hire Assessment.

One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-05 for GS-07, GS-07 for GS-09 and GS-09 for GS-11) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience for the GS-07 grade level is defined as: applying financial laws, principles, systems, policies, methods, and practices to provide routine technical guidance to managers, employees and/or customers; or researching financial policies and laws to resolve common financial issues.

Specialized experience for the GS-09 grade level is defined as: researching and interpreting financial regulations, policies and laws to provide substantive recommendations and advice to managers; or analyzing and evaluating reports and data from financial systems to identify issues and discrepancies.

Specialized experience for the GS-11 grade level is defined as: analyzing financial and accounting operations to recommend process improvements; or monitoring and evaluating financial systems to identify weaknesses and ensure compliance with internal controls; or analyzing the impact of applicable laws and regulations on an organizations financial policies, operations and systems, and recommending changes to maintain compliance.

Time-in-Grade for GS-07: Current or former federal employees who have held a GS position in the preceding 52 weeks, must meet the time in grade requirement.

Applicant must have served 52 weeks as a GS-05 or higher grade in Federal Service.

Time-in-Grade for GS-09: Current or former federal employees who have held a GS position in the preceding 52 weeks, must meet the time in grade requirement.

Applicant must have served 52 weeks as a GS-07 or higher grade in Federal Service.

Time-in-Grade for GS-11: Current or former federal employees who have held a GS position in the preceding 52 weeks, must meet the time in grade requirement.

Applicant must have served 52 weeks as a GS-09 or higher grade in Federal Service.

** The effective date of your SF-50 must reflect that you will meet the 52-week time in grade requirement within 30 days of the announcement closing.

** You may qualify for consideration if meeting time-in grade, specialized experience, education requirement, 90 days after competitive appointment requirement, and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement, unless otherwise indicated on the announcement.

Major Duties:

  • Duties described below reflect the full performance level GS-11. Duties assigned to an entry grade of GS-7 or GS-9 will be developmental in nature.
  • Analyzes, plans, and evaluates directorate functions to determine validity, propriety, accuracy, and adequacy of work processes.
  • Applies financial management analysis knowledge of automated systems and related regulatory and statutory requirements to identify financial management problems.
  • Confers with personnel at all levels; observes operating practices; and accomplishes any other tasks deemed essential to performance of related duties.
  • Reviews and analyzes a variety of reports received from internal and external sources, including reports produced by automated systems.
  • Performs quality control examinations of operations, policies, procedures, and internal controls including the analysis of data and information with the objective to prevent and detect deficiencies in the operation of functional area systems.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 1/22/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 1/22/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ML-12865738-26