FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5)

Financial Services Technician Duties

As a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN (TITLE 5), GS-0503-8, you will:

• Provide analysis, validation, processing, and correction of financial transactions and issues involving a full range of financial services.
• Respond to requests for assistance/information from multiple sources.
• Determine appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting from multiple military and civilian statuses.
• Train customers on pay and travel entitlements and associated systems, processes, and reports.
• Analyze diverse financial management technical methods, techniques, precedent cases, and procedures to resolve an extensive range of difficult financial technical issues or problems.
• Perform in-depth analysis on complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving substantial corrective action and/or complicated adjustments and resolves issues.
• Analyze particular facts of financial transaction problems and issues, verify and evaluate data.
• Analyze results, apply personal initiative and judgment to make recommendations, which may result in changing guidelines.
• Analyze and resolve tax processing problems based on inquiries or internal control audits and reviews.
• Support Soldier Readiness Processing with face to face interviews to conduct personal records review and ensure accurate pay and entitlements.
• Analyze and process transactions directly with U.S. Treasury and local financial institutions to ensure credits and collections are accomplished in a timely manner in accordance with law, regulation, and policy.
• Audit the full range of pay, travel, and accounts payable authorizations and entitlements to determine compliance with multiples laws, regulations, policies, and issuances.
• Interpret data to identify problems, determine nature of the problem or issue, decide approaches to use to resolve issues.
• Use independent judgment to reconstruct incomplete files, devise more efficient methods for procedural processing and gather and organize information for inquires to resolve issues.
• Perform or conduct research, investigate and solve problems involving reconciliations of discrepancies to identify, analyze, and provide solutions regarding entitlements
• Schedule, run, and analyze various financial system reports such as daily activity reports, error/reject reports, status reports, and other relevant financial reports.
• Determine appropriate payments to vendors by applying appropriate laws, regulations, and guidelines.

**This is NOT an all-inclusive list of duties.**