Accounting Technician, Accounting & Finance

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Location: Charleston, SC, US

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The U.S. Department of State (DoS), The Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services, Charleston has a requirement for a Compensation Technician in the Office of Global Compensation. The Compensation Technician position will be responsible for payroll processing, analysis, auditing and monitoring of payroll in the office of American Pay Processing (CGFS/GC/PPR/AMP).

Global Compensation provides compensation services to U.S. Foreign Service employees, Department of State Civil Service employees and Locally Employed staff. They provide both American and LE Staff payroll services for U.S. Agencies Overseas and annuity services for Foreign Service Retirees. With locations in Charleston, South Carolina and Bangkok, Thailand, Global Compensation manages one of the most complex compensation environments in the world, providing services in 180 countries and 140 currencies.

Services include time and attendance, payroll, annuity payments, customer support, withholding, benefits, record keeping and reporting for our employees working domestically and overseas at our Embassies and Missions. Global Compensation’s primary goal is to provide world‑class compensation services to its customers. The contractor shall perform these services under Jennifer Pinckney, DoS Manager, American Pay Processing.

Provides compensation services to U.S. Foreign Service, Department of State Civil Service and Foreign Service Retirees. AMP manages a diverse foreign‑affairs payroll environment, providing our services to our Civil and Senior Executive Service employees domestically, U.S. Foreign Service employees in the U.S., and overseas, and annuity services to Foreign Service Retirees. Our services include time and attendance, payroll, annuity payments, customer support, withholding, benefits, record keeping and reporting for our employees and annuitants.

Our primary goal is to provide world‑class compensation services to our customers.

The Compensation Analyst’s primary responsibilities are T&A reporting (bi‑monthly), pay calculation, individual leave accounts, allotments of pay, and other individual pay matters for those paid under local compensation plans at serviced‑posts. Specific duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Responsible for accuracy of calculating and processing Time and Attendance into various proprietary financial systems, ensuring timeliness and accuracy of information. This includes working accounts by organization or country code by processing a variety of transactions which affect pay, leave, taxes, benefits, and other deductions.
• Receive, research, analyze, and process pay actions under the Common Actions such as Accounting Updates, Awards, COLA, Donated Leave, E&L Statements, General Inquiry – Common/Historical, INWS, Leave Adjustments, Overpayment & Underpayment – Common, PCS Renewal/Other, Restored Leave Adjustment, Return of Donated Leave, Salary Adjustment, Service Computation Date Adjustment, Supplemental‑Common, T&A Processing & Manual Submission, Year‑to‑Date Adjustment (YTDA) – Common.
• Perform, as needed, Common Monitoring measures such as T&A Adjustment Monitoring, eAwards Letters, Employees Not Paid Report, SCALP Report, Negative Annual Sick Leave Report, Annual Leave Forfeiture, Automated Adjustment Report, T&A Correction Errors by Org Code and Calculations Exception.
• Verify the validity of personnel actions and personal service contracts/agreements prepared by serviced Embassies, rejecting those not properly completed or in accord with existing personnel law, regulation and advising post personnel offices of deficiencies and corrections needed.
• Answer questions from employees regarding payroll matters (pay, deductions and related matters).
• Audit, analyze, and reconcile reports or accounts, and as necessary, make adjustments which are largely retroactive in…