Accounting Technician (T32)

Army National Guard Units • Montgomery, AL

11d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a National Guard Title 32 excepted service position with the Alabama National Guard, AL USPFO, in Montgomery, Alabama. The position performs complex fiscal accounting work, including analyzing and reconciling accounting and budget data, resolving difficult account discrepancies, researching fiscal issues, and providing accounting services using fiscal and related automated systems. The position requires membership in a compatible Alabama Army National Guard military assignment and military uniform wear. Financial management workforce certification is required, with the appropriate certification level to be achieved within two years of notification of applicable requirements or an approved extension. A probationary period may be required. Direct deposit participation is mandatory. The employee may occasionally work outside normal duty hours, and overtime may be required. A recruitment or relocation incentive of up to 25% may be authorized, subject to approval.

Requirements

• National Guard membership is required, with a compatible military assignment in the employing state's National Guard before the effective date of placement.
• Applicants must be eligible for immediate membership in the Alabama Army National Guard if not already a member.
• Military rank must be within the specified range: minimum PVT and maximum SFC.
• One year of equivalent specialized experience at least at the next lower grade level is required for eligibility for the next grade level.
• Experience, education, or training involving total accounting procedures and planning, organizing, and coordinating work to resolve problems.
• General experience with arithmetic, attention to detail, established procedures for recording and compiling data, document verification, account maintenance or reconciliation, researching debit and credit discrepancies, using automated systems, validating accounting data, analyzing trends, correcting coding errors, and preparing reports.
• Fundamental working experience and understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the accountant occupational series and grade.
• Comprehensive knowledge of fiscal accounting systems and their interrelationships with feeder systems, including logistics, contracting, travel, and pay systems.
• Knowledge of fiscal law and applicable DoD, Army, National Guard, FORSCOM, DFAS, and other financial regulations, policies, procedures, and decisions.
• Knowledge of accounting reconciliations, budget and cost accounting, funds control, commitments, obligations, disbursements, reimbursements, collections, and accounting closeout processes.
• Knowledge of automated accounting systems, transaction effects on financial records, and methods for reconciling variances with the U.S. Treasury.
• Knowledge of Cooperative Agreements and Grants rules, regulations, and state and federal processes.
• Knowledge of records management, communication, Privacy Act data handling, customer service, and financial transaction training techniques.
• Must participate in the Financial Management Certification Program and achieve the applicable certification level within the required period.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• Applicants subject to the Military Selective Service Act must be registered to be eligible for appointment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze management and accounting systems and resolve difficult, sensitive, or out-of-balance accounting conditions.
• Conduct fiscal reconciliations, reviews, account adjustments, and budget adjustments; reconcile Program Managers' accounts with the federal database of record.
• Research and investigate fiscal accounting issues, analyze transaction facts and data, identify discrepancies, and recommend solutions under applicable laws, regulations, and procedures.
• Examine accounts, trace transactions, identify discrepancies, develop corrective actions, verify adjusted account accuracy, and recommend measures to prevent recurring errors.
• Compile and verify accounting data and prepare statements, reports, schedules, and comparative analyses.
• Reconstruct inaccurate accounts, organize information for inquiries, and resolve problems referred by managers, employees, or congressional inquiries.
• Recommend changes to state guidelines, control mechanisms, customer training, and procedural guidance for handling documents and information.
• Coordinate with internal and external financial and program management personnel to resolve issues and prevent accounting errors.
• Research, interpret, analyze, and apply fiscal laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and legal decisions to resolve complex accounting problems.
• Use fiscal accounting systems and interfaced feeder systems to input or adjust data, validate transactions, and resolve inconsistencies; make independent decisions when unusual circumstances arise.
• Modify automated account processes while protecting historical data, and ensure complex adjustments involving balances, contracts, collections, disbursements, garnishments, or other actions are accurate and timely.
• Schedule, run, and analyze fiscal accounting reports, including the Master Update Error report, AXol Government Purchase Card line-of-accounting report, and Master Update Listing for the APC candidate file.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package, with benefits available to the employee and family; specific eligibility depends on position type.
• A recruitment or relocation incentive of up to 25% may be authorized, subject to approval.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed