Financial Services Technician T32

Army National Guard Units; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 58,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Army National Guard Units is seeking a Financial Services Technician (T32) to support the AZ USPFO. The role requires analyzing pay, travel, and accounts payable across multiple systems, using judgment to resolve complex issues and suggest process improvements.

The incumbent will work with standardized financial tools (JUMPS, DTS, IATS) and coordinate with internal teams to ensure compliance with applicable regulations.

Qualifications

• Must possess at least 12 months certification at the next higher level before eligibility.
• Experience with financial transactions, pay, travel allowances and entitlements.

Responsibilities

• Performs broad-in-depth financial analysis of inter-related accounting, logistics and computer file systems concerning pay, accounts payable, and various travel entitlements.
• Analyzes diverse financial management methods and procedures to resolve difficult financial issues.
• Uses independent judgment to reconstruct incomplete files and devise efficient processing methods.
• Interprets data to identify problems, determine causes, and recommend solutions for systemic changes to enhance operations.

Skills

Financial analysis

Data interpretation

Independent judgment

Problem solving

Education

12 months certification at next higher level

Tools

JUMPS

ODS

SRD1

DTS

IATS

Job description

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION

This National Guard position is for a FINANCIAL SERVICES TECHNICIAN T32, PDD1986000 and is part of the AZ USPFO, National Guard.

Military Grades: E-3/PFC - E-6/SSG Compatible Military Assignments: Must possess or be able to obtain the following MOS: 36B or 42A

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must possess at least 12 months certification at the next higher level before being eligible for that level. Experiences gained through military technical training schools or civilian academic courses are included in the one-year on-the-job experience. Must have fundamental working experiences with a validated understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the occupational series and grade.

Duties:(compacted) Performs broad-in-depth financial analysis of inter-related accounting, logistics and computer file systems concerning pay, accounts payable, and various travel entitlements, using multiple procedures, processes and techniques to evaluate alternatives and arrive at decisions, conclusions and recommendations. Analyzes diverse financial management technical methods, techniques, precedent cases, and procedures to resolve an extensive range of difficult financial technical issues or problems. Performs in-depth analysis, complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving substantial corrective action and/or complicated adjustments and resolves issues, including assessing unusual circumstances or conditions. Utilizes experience and judgment, rather than guides, to fill in gaps, identify sources of information, and make working suppositions about what transpired to decide approaches, and resolve specific problems. Develops variations in approaches to fit specific problems or deals with incomplete, unreliable or conflicting data in the process of work performance in order to validate transactions and resolve inconsistencies. Analyzes particular facts of financial transaction problems/issues, verifies and evaluates data; obtains additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies; and applies pertinent fiscal laws, regulations, precedent decisions, and procedures to determine appropriate action for resolution. Performs research regarding many different and unrelated processes and methods relating to financial transactions for analysis of complex and unusual financial transactions. Analyzes results, applies personal initiative and judgment to make recommendations, which may result in changing guidelines affecting internal, state, and National Guard Bureau (NGB) level processes and procedures. Interprets data to identify problems, determines nature of the problem or issue, decides approaches to use to resolve issues, and recommends solutions for systemic changes to enhance operations. Uses independent judgment to reconstruct incomplete files, devise more efficient methods for procedural processing, gather and organize information for inquiries, or resolve problems referred by others. Interprets user requirements in designing new ad hoc reports or modifications to standard financial and management systems, resulting from regulatory, system, or force structure changes. Performs or conducts research, investigates and solves problems involving reconciliations of discrepancies (Electronic Funds Transfer rejects, pay/personnel/travel mismatches) to identify, analyze and provide solutions regarding multiple entitlements, payments to personnel in various duty statuses and assorted payments to commercial vendors, including computation of interest due. Sorts complicated factual information and applies a variety of financial methods to resolve issues. Performs complicated actions to solve problems associated with processing actions regarding multiple pay, travel, and accounts payable financial systems. Incumbent uses related financial regulations and rulings covering diverse types of transactions to function as the technical authority for resolving an extensive range of financial issues or problems. Performs varied duties, involving financial services payment systems (travel, accounts payable, and pay; i.e. Joint Uniform Military Pay System Uniform Standard Terminal Input System (JUMPS), Operational Data Store (ODS), Standard Financial System ReDesign1 (SRD1), Defense Travel System (DTS), Integrated Automated Travel System (IATS), etc., by applying a series of different and unrelated methods, processes and techniques involving established financial management systems. Analyzes and develops a variety of new or established techniques and methods to evaluate alternatives and arrive at decisions, conclusions, and recommendations that enhance operations. Uses different procedures, as transactions are not completely standardized, or transactions are inter-related with other systems, that require coordination with other personnel or staff, both internal and external to the organization. Determines appropriate pay, allowances, and entitlements resulting fr