SUPERVISORY ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN

Full Job Description

Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) mission is to lead the Department of Defense (DoD) in finance and accounting by ensuring the delivery of efficient, exceptional quality pay and financial information.

GS-07 - One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-6) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as: maintaining accounting or financial ledgers; posting financial transactions; preparing accounting reports; commercial vendor payments actions; civilian/military travel claims, call center support, reconciling accounts; or working with a variety of accounting and financial automated systems.

GS-08 - One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-7) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.

Specialized experience is defined as: Preparing financial reports, trail balances, vendor payments, or travel claims; Reconciles ledgers, analyzes accounting data, and provides professional accounting advice and support to customers and teammates.

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.

To be considered for a GS 07, applicant must have served 52 weeks as a GS 06 or higher grade in Federal Service.

To be considered for a GS 08, applicant must have served 52 weeks as a GS 07 or higher grade in Federal Service.

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:

• Supervises and directs functions in support of accounting transactions related to accounts payable, accounts receivable, and/or fund balance with treasury for the organization.
• Trains and assists lower level accounting technicians with techniques to correct and process accounting inputs. Ensures accuracy, propriety, and legality of accounting transactions through extensive review of documents.
• Plans and schedules work to be accomplished; sets and adjusts short-term priorities for completion of work. Assigns/reassigns work to subordinates based on priorities, the difficulty and requirements of assignments and capabilities of subordinates.
• Oversees the accomplishment of technical work in accordance with policy, directives, regulations, and reporting requirements. Interprets regulations, requirements, and policies to ensure compliance.
• Responsible and accountable for assigned program areas including the development, documentation, and operation of both internal processes and administrative, technical, and automated systems controls.
• Researches complex problems covering all aspects of processing of technical accounting data. Explains procedures and problems and takes corrective actions as necessary to ensure the accuracy and propriety of accounting transactions and records.
• Duties will be developmental in nature when the position is filled below the full performance level.