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Posted: April 3, 2026 (1 day ago)

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FINANCIAL TECHNICIAN

U.S. Marine Corps

Department of the Navy

Fresh

Location

Salary

$50,460 - $65,599

per year

Closes

April 16, 2026More DOD jobs →

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 payroll records, managing budgets, and supporting accounting for the U.S. Marine Corps in South Carolina.

It requires working with cash handling, pay accounts for military and civilian personnel, and resolving financial issues through clear communication.

A good fit would be someone with a year of experience in financial support roles, attention to detail, and comfort with numbers and customer service.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-06 in federal or equivalent service, involving accounting, budget, or financial management support
  • Knowledge of accounting systems, policies, and procedures for account maintenance
  • Experience in handling cash items, receipts, disbursements, and cash accountability controls
  • Skills in determining pay, maintaining payroll records, and completing reports for federal civilian employees
  • Ability to establish, maintain, correct, and close pay accounts for active, reserve, retired military personnel, and annuitants
  • Proficiency in budget analysis and administration, including maintaining ledgers, budget formulation, and compiling funding data
  • Strong oral and written communication skills to resolve customer financial issues

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.

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

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Performing technical work in support of accounting, budget, and other related financial management work; maintaining the organizations payroll record maintenance, and providing oral and written communication to resolve customer issues.

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 requiring a basic understanding of accounting systems, policies, and procedures.
  • You will perform technical work in support of the receipt, disbursement, examination, deposit and custody of cash items which includes handling cash items or use of cash accountability control methods.
  • You will determine pay, payroll records maintenance and completion of reports pertaining to civilian employees of the Federal Government.
  • You will perform work to establish, maintain, correct and close pay accounts for active, reserve, or retired armed forces personnel and their annuitants.
  • You will perform technician work in support of budget analysis and administration such as maintaining ledgers, budget formulation, compiling, consolidating, checking and arranging funding data.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/3/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/4/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DE-12899358-26-CAH