Disbursement Specialist.

About the role

This position is located in Portland, OR, a city known for its green spaces, bike-friendliness, and vibrant cultural scene. The city offers a diverse array of experiences, from lively festivals and delicious food to the nearby Portland Trail Blazers basketball team.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior disbursement specialist responsible for developing policies, operating procedures, and internal controls to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, agency policy, and fiduciary responsibilities related to the custody and disposition of employee funds.
• Conduct a variety of analyses and evaluations required to develop policies, operating procedures, and internal controls related to both payroll and travel.
• Work with managers and subject matter experts to document and recommend improvements to business processes within the organization.
• Oversee audits to ensure proper application of guidelines and recommend changes to policies, operating manuals, and user guidance as required.
• Serve as liaison with the IT staff, program managers, and other BPA functions to coordinate process and operational issues and changes related to accounting and/or travel systems.
• Identify trends in program management or data needs and develop solutions to enhance/resolve service delivery (e.g., setting up systems requirements to track quantity and units of measure of utility expenses for greenhouse gas reporting).

Requirements

Conditions of employment: Applicants are encouraged to respond to four short, free-response, essay questions in the questionnaire. Answer to these questions is not scored or rated. Your answers will be reviewed by the hiring manager and agency leadership if you are referred for selection consideration. You must answer all of these questions completely and truthfully.

Qualifications

• You must be a United States Citizen.
• You must meet the requirements of Executive Order 14170.
• You must meet the requirements of the Selective Service registration requirement.
• You must meet the requirements of the time-in-grade requirement.
• You must meet the requirements of the CTAP/ICTAP eligibility.
• You must meet the requirements of the specialized experience.