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FINANCIAL TECHNICIAN

U.S. Marine Corps

Department of the Navy

Fresh

Location

Salary

$38,791 - $56,039

per year

Closes

February 17, 2026

GS-7 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $41,966 - $54,557

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-6. Bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement or 1 year graduate study.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves handling day-to-day financial tasks like checking documents for accuracy, managing payroll for military and civilian staff, reconciling accounts, and supporting budget work in a U.S.

Marine Corps office in Japan.

It's a good fit for someone with a couple of years of hands-on experience in accounting or finance who is detail-oriented and comfortable with government rules and procedures.

Note that medical and dental care is very limited in the location, so it's best for those prepared for overseas living.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-06 level (for GS-07 position) in accounting, budget, or financial management
  • Ability to examine and verify financial documents for accuracy and compliance with regulations
  • Experience maintaining, reconciling, and closing pay accounts for employees, including military personnel
  • Skills in handling cash items, receipts, disbursements, and deposits
  • Proficiency in preparing financial reports, maintaining ledgers, and supporting budget formulation
  • Basic understanding of accounting systems, policies, and procedures
  • Equivalent experience from federal, private, or public sector, including volunteer work

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Financial Technician in the Marine Corps Installations Pacific of MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP BUTLER. ***ACCESS TO MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE IN JAPAN IS EXTREMELY LIMITED.

Please see Additional Information section below.*** Initial consideration for this announcement is limited to the number of applications listed at the top of this announcement.

All applications received on the day the application limit is reached will be accepted and processed.

GS-07: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year 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: Providing technical expertise in accounting, budget and other related financial management work including; examine financial documents for accuracy; maintain and close pay accounts for employees; reconcile accounts and accounting data.

GS-06: Your resume must 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: Assisting with accounting, budget, and other related financial work such as examining documents and accounts Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards 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 account maintenance and accounting support work requiring a basic understanding of accounting systems, policies, and procedures to examine, verify and maintain and reconcile accounts and accounting data, prepare and analyze reports.
  • You will 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 consistently examine documents for accuracy, adequacy of documentation, compliance with regulations for goods and services provided to or by the Government.
  • 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 maintain ledgers, budget formulation, compiling, consolidating, checking and arranging funding data.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/10/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/10/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12882582-26-ALD