Budget Technician

About the role

This position supports the New World screwworm response.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical support on procedural matters and complete required documents for submission.
• Makes sure reports are monitored and examined, advising on resource and program management.
• Retrieves and reviews FMMI reports and multiple program ledgers to ensure they are balanced and accounting data is valid.
• Identifies and corrects erroneous obligations, recommends changes to prevent recurrence, and reports findings.
• Maintains control systems for payment documents like Purchase Orders, VISA, Claims for Reimbursement, and Payment Receipts, ensuring timely processing.
• Reviews planned and committed ledger items, salary projections, agreements, and allocations.

Requirements

Individuals who were born male after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.

Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.

Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served.

Qualifications

• For the GS-5 level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-4 level) that may have been obtained in the private or public sectors, demonstrating:
• Reviewing vouchers, purchase requests, and contract invoices to verify budgetary account codes and dollar amounts.
• Adjusting account balances to reflect the effect of allotments, transfers, obligations, expenditures, and other actions that change the amount of funds available in accounts.
• Generating charts and reports utilizing pivot tables, Excel, or similar applications.
• Or 4 years of education above high school.
• Equivalent combinations of education and experience are qualifying for this grade level.
• Combination of education and experience at the GS-5 grade level: Applicants may have combinations of successfully completed education and specialized experience to meet total qualification requirements. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify for that grade level.

Additional information

• Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP), Reemployment Priority List (RPL), or Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP): Visit the OPM website for information on how to apply as a CTAP, RPL, or ICTAP eligible. To exercise selection priority for this vacancy, CTAP/RPL/ICTAP candidates must meet the basic eligibility requirements and all selective factors. CTAP/ICTAP candidates must be rated and determined to be well qualified (or above) based on an evaluation of the competencies listed in the How You Will Be Evaluated section. When assessed through a score-based category rating method, CTAP/ICTAP applicants must receive a rating of at least 85 out of a possible 100.
• First time hires to the federal government normally start at the lowest rate of the salary range for the grade selected.
• Travel, transportation, and relocation expenses will not be paid. Any travel, transportation, and relocation expense associated with reporting for duty will be the responsibility of the selected employee.
• Locality pay will vary based upon the selectee's duty location. A final salary determination will be made upon selection.
• Promotion Potential: If you are selected for a position with further promotion potential, you will be placed under a career development plan, and may be non-competitively promoted if you successfully complete the requirements and if recommended by management. However, promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed.