FINANCIAL SYSTEMS SPECIALIST
Air Force Personnel Center
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
Defense Finance and Accounting Service
Department of Defense
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana
Salary
$107,428 - $139,658
per year
Type
Full-Time
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GS-9 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $51,332 - $66,732
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-8. Master's degree or 2 years graduate study.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This role involves advising on complex financial issues, analyzing policies and systems for the Department of Defense's finance agency, and fixing problems in financial processes to ensure smooth operations.
It's ideal for someone with experience in government finance who enjoys solving tough problems through teamwork and detailed reviews.
A good fit would be a mid-level professional comfortable with high-stakes projects and regulatory guidance.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience at GS-09 level or equivalent, including financial program analysis and problem-solving
- 52 weeks of time-in-grade at GS-09 or higher in federal service
- Ability to advise managers on difficult financial situations
- Experience providing policy guidance on DoD and DFAS regulations
- Skills in analyzing policy changes and their impacts on auditable processes
- Proficiency in reviewing and evaluating enterprise-wide financial systems
- Capability to remediate deficiencies in financial controls and documentation
Full Job Description
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One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-09) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.
Specialized experience is defined as: performing analysis of financial programs and policies to ensure continuity of operations and providing solutions to financial problems; OR managing multiple high priority financial related projects, briefings, objectives through collaboration with other supervisors, both internally and externally to their organization.
Time-in-Grade: 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:
- Advises financial, accounting and program managers on difficult financial situations/problems.
- Provides DoD and DFAS policy guidance to managers and supervisors throughout the Agency.
- Analyzes policy changes to regulations directing respective functional area key processes and the impacts to auditable processes, which are the result of policy, procedural, and/or system weaknesses.
- Performs reviews of financial systems with enterprise-wide application requiring a high degree of analytical and evaluative skills, as well as originality and advisory abilities.
- Remediates identified deficiencies in key control objectives, quality of documentation, and supporting documentation.
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