Financial Services Technician

Financial Analysis Position

The purpose of this position is to provide analysis, validation, processing, and correction of financial transactions and issues/problems involving the full range of financial services. Incumbent uses complete understanding of inter-related systems and processes across multiple functional areas and their interoperability to ensure the validity and accuracy of all disbursements, collections, and adjustments related to financial records.

Major duties include:

• Performing broad-in-depth financial analysis of inter-related accounting, logistics, and computer file systems concerning pay, accounts payable, and various travel entitlements.
• Performing in-depth analysis, complicated pay, travel, and accounts payable issues involving substantial corrective action and/or complicated adjustments.
• Analyzing particular facts of financial transaction problems/issues, verifying and evaluating data; obtaining additional information to reconcile discrepancies or inconsistencies; and applying pertinent fiscal laws, regulations, precedent decisions, and procedures to determine appropriate action for resolution.
• Analyzing and resolving tax processing problems based on soldier inquiries or internal control audits/reviews, ranging from Permanent Change of Station (PCS) issues and combat tax exclusion pay to refunds of erroneous tax collections.
• Interpreting data to identify problems, determining nature of the problem or issue, deciding approaches to use to resolve issues, and recommending solutions for systemic changes to enhance operations.
• Researching, interpreting, analyzing, and applying regulations, policies, procedures, and legal decisions to work and/or resolve complex financial issues/problems.
• Performing or conducting research, investigating, and solving problems involving reconciliations of discrepancies (Electronic Funds Transfer rejects, pay/personnel/travel mismatches) to identify, analyze, and provide solutions regarding multiple entitlements, payments to personnel in various duty statuses, and assorted payments to commercial vendors, including computation of interest due.
• Performing complicated actions to solve problems associated with processing actions regarding multiple pay, travel, and accounts payable financial systems.

Refer to PD for full listing of duties/responsibilities.