• Job Description

  Req#: 741647400
  This position is open continuously and will remain open for an extended period of time. We will fill jobs as they become available.
  
  To see all locations, click "show more locations" under locations above.
  
  The General Schedule (GS) basic pay schedule may vary by geographic locality. To view pay rates in a specific location visit the Office of Personnel Management Pay Table.
  
  This announcement will be used to fill positions with an entry grade of GS-5, GS-6, or GS-7 with a target grade of GS-7.
  
  Duties
  
  
  • Process or review a wide variety of standard pay actions which establish, maintain, adjust or close pay accounts to adequately compensate service members, active or retired.
  • Reviews source, substantiating and supporting pay authorization documents to ensure completeness, propriety, authentication, accuracy, and compliance with applicable regulations, policies and precedents.
  • Enters pay transactions into the organization's automated pay system.
  • Makes standard adjustments to pay accounts and processes actions to adjust accounts, if necessary.
  • Provides one-on-one assistance to service members and annuitants explaining standard pay entitlements, answers inquiries regarding new accounts, cost-of-living adjustments methods of computation, etc.
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  Applicants MUST have related financial experience AND/OR a related financial degree (examples include: Finance, Accounting, Management, Actuarial Science, or related), in addition to meeting Office of Personnel Management (OPM) minimum qualification requirements. Substitution of combination of education and experience must still, in conjunction, minimally satisfy the DHA qualification requirement.
  
  Specialized Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal service, or comparable in difficulty and responsibility if outside the Federal service.
  
  For the GS-05: Specialized experience is supporting the processing of financial records or transactions, such as reviewing financial information for accuracy and/or, inputting financial transactions into an automated system.
  For the GS-06: Specialized experience is reviewing and processing recurring payroll transactions, and resolving problems within payroll accounts.
  
  For the GS-07: Specialized experience is reviewing and processing a wide variety of payroll transactions; determining entitlements; and identifying and resolving payroll problems within automated pay accounts.
  
  
  In addition to meeting the specialized experience requirements, qualified applicants must also possess the quality of experience as it relates to how closely or to what extent an applicant's background, recency of experience, education, and training are relevant to the duties and responsibilities of the announced position. Candidates must clearly demonstrate the possession of knowledge, skills and abilities, or competencies necessary to successfully perform the work of the position at the appropriate level to be qualified for the position. Applicants must describe how their experience meets the competencies within the body of the resume. No separate statements addressing KSA's or competencies are required.
  
  Competencies:
  
  
  Qualification and time-in-grade requirements must be met within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.

• About the company

  The United States Department of Defense is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. The DOD is the largest employer in the world, with over 1.3 million active-duty service members as of 2020. More employees include over 826,000 National Guard and reservists from the armed forces, and over 732,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the DoD's stated mission is to provide "the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security".

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