Financial Analyst Pay Support

Job Title

Essential Job Functions: The Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services (CGFS), Global Compensation provides compensation services to U.S. Foreign Service employees, Department of State Civil Service employees and Locally Employed (LE) staff. We provide both American and LE Staff payroll services for U.S. Agencies Overseas and Annuity services for Foreign Service Retirees. We are located in Charleston, South Carolina and Bangkok, Thailand where we manage one of the most complex compensation environments in the world, providing compensation services in 180 countries and 140 currencies. Our services include time and attendance, payroll, annuity payments, customer support, withholding, benefits, record keeping and reporting for our employees working domestically and overseas at our Embassies and Missions. A primary goal is to provide world-class compensation services to customers.

This position will work with all three divisions of Global Compensation to improve, streamline, and automate processes to ensure production, efficiency, and effectiveness within the area.

Minimum/General Requirements:

• A four-year degree from an accredited college or university is required.
• Provides support like a Senior Financial Analyst, but in a narrower range of operations and under closer supervision of more senior personnel.
• A financial analyst would support a defined operation or function, such as examination for invoices for technical errors, recommending action to certifying facials, processing transaction exceptions according to prescribed procedures, recording obligations, recording expenditures, preparing source documentation for requisitions for services, or maintaining memorandum records supporting budget formulation and/or execution.

Functional Responsibility:

• Candidate will work closely with all three divisions of Global Compensation – must have superior written and oral communication skills to facilitate collaboration and be able to work cross-organizationally.
• Will be reviewing the PEAR list along with other existing documentation to promote efficiency in processing.
• Candidate will review existing processes to suggest improvements, process changes, and suggest and implement automation to streamline production.
• Candidate will be working on high-visibility projects that will have impacts on Global Compensation itself but will also have the attention of high-level management.
• Receives, researches, analyzes, and processes specialized pay actions
• Verifies the validity of personnel actions and personal service contracts/agreements prepared by serviced Embassies, rejecting those who are not properly completed or in accord with existing personnel law, regulation and advises post personnel offices of the deficiencies and corrections needed to affect the action.
• Answers questions via e-mail regarding payroll matters (pay, deductions and related matters).
• Audits, analyzes, and reconciles reports or accounts, and as necessary, makes adjustments which are largely retroactive in nature. More difficult adjustments may require extensive record searches and involve correction of accounts.
• Performs manual calculations when deemed necessary to verify year-to-date adjustments and corrections when the calculations cannot be performed through the automated payroll system, and other financial systems as required.
• Prepares financial reports on various aspects of the payroll cycle, as requested by DoS.
• Manages key reports such as the W-2 Exception Report, Lump Sum Report, and Pay Capping Report
• Manages DEO functions and assist with C3 payment processing.
• Assists with EEX banking changes.

Skills:

• Project Management background (PMP preferred but not required)
• Must possess superior multi-tasking, customer service, analytical, organizational, oral and written communication skills.
• Requires experience with computer-based applications including word-processing, spreadsheets, and database management systems. MS Excel and MS Word experience at an intermediate level is required.
• Requires a strong attention to detail and analytical problem-solving skills
• Reporting and optimization experience preferred

Qualifications:

• Education Requirements: A four-year degree from an accredited university or college

Professional and technical certification programs and years of experience may be substituted for years of education, based on credit hour equivalents