Financial Resources Generalist TS/SCI with Poly REQUIRED

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Perform a wide range of routine to moderately complex financial activities and analysis to support management, staff and customers in the office of assignment.
• Prepare accountings for certification in support of the USG agency’s services such as debt collection, vendor payments, accounting operations, banking and finance, budget offices, travel, Working Capital Fund businesses, payroll and benefits.
• Monitor funding streams for the incoming/outgoing money related to services
• Reconcile general ledger accounts, bank accounts, financial systems and sub-systems or financial statements and take corrective action as needed.
• This includes activities involving credit cards, invoices, travel accountings, PCS/TDY accountings, tax returns, funding documents, debt collection, etc.
• Review and analyze various routine to moderately complex General Ledger accounts and update information to ensure accuracy.
• Under the USG agency’s direction, establish commitments and obligations and periodically revalidate them within established guidelines and procedures being careful to remove funds on commitments and/or obligations that are deemed no longer necessary
• Originate financial data and post into unique databases and systems. Review to ensure data integrity is maintained.
• Adhere to federal government requirements and the USG agency’s standards of financial record keeping.
• Process travel and miscellaneous reimbursements in a timely manner.
• Provide general, financial and technical guidance to customers regarding entitlements, accounting requirements, established finance policies on routine to moderately complex financial matters/issues such as OGA and vendor payments, accounting preparation, General Ledgers, documentation of expenditures based on interpretation and application of policies, unique authorities and office policies.
• Provide technical and financial guidance to managers, junior analysts and team members in area of assignment on routine to moderately complex financial matters such as approving procedures, accounting/financial procedures and maintenance of data integrity across multiple systems.
• Clear accounting suspensions and refer complex accounting issues to more senior officers providing customer service and technical assistance to internal and external customers at the USG agency.
• Monitor daily electronic communication from various systems and databases and respond to various routine queries from customers; refer more complex queries to more senior officers for resolution.
• Research finance regulations and data within financial systems to resolve standard financial problems and issues.
• Serve as the first level of review for resolution of policy interpretation issues involving customers
• Aid managers within area of assignment in developing specific financial policies and/or procedures.
• Provide functional expertise to system development activities; create ad hoc system reports and conduct functional testing of business systems.
• Act as liaison between system developers and users in order to address routine problems and reconcile issues.
• Provide customer support for use of financial systems by resolving user issues and communicating information regarding system changes and updates.
• Assist in developing and providing systems training tutorials or group sessions and respond to ad hoc user queries.
• Analyze and test systems that interface with the accounting systems to ensure the integrity of accounting and financial data.

Required Qualifications

• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Ability to obtain and apply basic knowledge of the USG agency’s finance regulations, policies and unique authorities.
• Ability to obtain and apply basic knowledge of the USG agency’s procedures and policies specific to the area of assignment.
• Ability to obtain and apply basic knowledge of USG agency’s automated financial and acquisitions systems.
• Basic knowledge of quality assurance procedures to ensure the integrity of data recorded into the USG agency’s financial system.
• Oral and written communication skills sufficient to compose and deliver responses to customers' routine questions in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to interact with customers effectively in resolving routine problems.
• Ability to adapt to changing work requirements and priorities.