MILITARY PAY TECHNICIAN

Full Job Description

The primary purpose of this position is to provide a variety of military pay services for active duty, reserve, and/or retired service members as well as annuitants.

In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Clerical and Administrative Support Positions.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-05, or equivalent in other pay systems.

Examples of specialized experience includes knowledge of current and prior pay procedures, regulations, laws, and applicable Comptroller General Decisions to resolve complicated pay problems and/or to determine and process a full range of military pay transactions and reconstruct pay records.

Knowledge and understanding of the automated pay system's internal processing methods, interrelationships between pay system files, audit trail requirements, detailed input requirements, and output products to determine when manual processing is necessary, to devise methods for input transactions to bypass computer operations, and to troubleshoot, identify, and report programming and systems problems.

OR EDUCATION: I have successfully completed one year of graduate level education in a field directly related which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

NOTE: You must submit a copy of college transcripts. OR COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION: I have a combination of experience as described in the job opportunity announcement and education.

Therefore, I have a combination of experience and education. NOTE: You must submit a copy of college transcripts.

FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible.

One year at the GS-05 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-06 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks.

NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Knowledge of a large body of rules, regulations, laws, and procedures for one or more military pay specializations; the data system(s) used to support military pay actions; and federal debt collection rules and regulations.

Skill in performing arithmetic computations to compute military pay. Ability to interpret/apply regulations and procedures related to military pay.

Ability to communicate orally and in writing; AND Ability to operate a calculator. Ability to use a keyboard; a qualified typist is not required.

PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work.

You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE: Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (i.e., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Major Duties:

Determines, processes, and follows-up on a wide variety of complicated pay actions in one or more specialty areas (e.g., active, reserve, retired, and/or annuitant) which require carrying out numerous different and unrelated procedures.

Research, audits, and makes pay adjustments involving a variety of complicated pay problems.

Manages, resolves, and processes a wide range of complicated debt collection cases which typically require extensive research, review, and application of prior year laws, regulation, GAO decisions, and audit of several months to many years of pay history.

Performs miscellaneous technical tasks in support of military pay actions.

Provides customer service in person or by telephone, and completes correspondence (e.g., answers written inquireies, prepares letters to obtain missing information , etc.) related to military pay.