Finance & Banking Technician, Regulatory Compliance Specialist

Compensation Technician

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 (LE) 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 compensation 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.

Pay Processing (PPR):
Provides compensation services to U.S. Foreign Service, Department of State Civil Service and Foreign Service Retirees. We also provide American payroll services for U.S. Agencies Overseas. 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.

If you answered yes to any of these, keep reading on.

• Do you love payroll?
• Do you enjoy thinking outside the box?
• Do you like collaborating with a team?
• Do you like helping people?

Job Responsibilities

• 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 Benefits such as, but not limited to:
  Federal Levies, Childcare Subsidy Inquiry, (FEHB) Federal Employee Health Benefits, General Inquiry – Benefits, Historical, Life Insurance Adjustments, Life Insurance Certification, (MFO) Multi-Force Organization, Military Leave, Military Reservist Differential, NAF Retirement Plan, Overpayment – Benefits, Overpayment Response – Benefits, Overpayment W-2 correction, Parking Benefit, Recruitment Bonuses, (RITA) Relocation Incentive Transfer Allowance, Student Loan Inquiry, Supplemental – Benefits, T&A Processing, T&A Processing – Manual Submission, TSP Adjustment (Thrift Savings Plan), TSP Deduction/Change (Thrift Savings Plan), TSP Loans/Withdrawals (Thrift Savings Plan), USUN Housing, Workers Compensation and Year-to-Date Adjustments, etc…
• As needed, the following Benefits Reporting measures may be required: T&A Report Monitoring, Employee Not Paid Report, SCALP Report, Military Leave Report, Financial Institutions Updates, Retirement Code Change Report, Leave without Pay Report, TSP Error Report, Automated Adjustment Report, T&A Correction Errors by Org Code, Calculations Exception and Paid in Full Report.
• Receive, research, analyze, and process pay actions under Entry on Board such as, but not limited to:
  Advance of Salary, Change of Address, Check Cancellations, City Tax Withholding Request, Direct Deposit/Allotments, EFT Rejects/Returns, Employee E-mail Address, Employment Verification, Federal Tax Adjustment, Federal Tax Withholding Change, General Inquiry – Entry on Board, Health Benefits Supplementals, Historical, New Hire (Direct Hire;…