Senior Payroll & Processing Specialist

Title: Senior Payroll & Processing Specialist

Location: Remote

At APV, we’re more than a technology company — we’re a mission-driven powerhouse transforming organizations through advanced technology and human ingenuity. Our expertise spans AI/ML, data architecture, low-code/no-code development, Agile Dev Sec Ops , and cloud services, delivering scalable and meaningful solutions.

In our Emerging Technology Lab, innovation drives progress. Our teams create intelligent chatbots, AI-powered assistants, robotic process automation (RPA), essay graders, and data analytics platforms. If you’re passionate about solving complex challenges and shaping the future, APV is the place for you.

Since 2007, we’ve partnered with federal and state agencies to deliver IT, training, and consulting solutions that achieve mission-critical outcomes. Built on accountability, integrity, and quality, we go beyond expectations.

With 70+ prime contracts and a proven record of client success, APV continues to grow — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to grow with us.

APV is seeking a Senior Payroll & Processing Specialist to provide advanced support to DHS OCHCO and component HR offices on federal pay administration and personnel action processing. The Senior Specialist independently handles complex pay corrections, retroactive actions, debt collection cases, and contested NOAC determinations, and serves as a senior point of contact for NFC, OGC, employees, and component HR partners.

This role requires deep working knowledge of the OPM Guide to Processing Personnel Actions, Title 5 pay authorities, FLSA, the Back Pay Act, and DHS policy. The Senior Specialist drafts SOPs, leads quality reviews, mentors journeyman specialists and HR assistants, and coordinates complex NFC service requests and audit responses.

• Process and reconcile complex pay actions, including back pay under the Back Pay Act, retroactive promotions, retroactive within-grade increases, and settlement-driven payments.
• Adjudicate pay setting cases, including highest previous rate, superior qualifications appointments, saved pay, and special rate determinations.
• Process premium pay administration, including overtime, Sunday and holiday pay, night differential, hazard pay, environmental differential, LEAP, and AUO.
• Lead complex debt collection cases under 5 USC 5514, including waiver requests, hearings, and offset coordination with NFC and OGC.
• Process Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments (VSIP), Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA), severance pay, and lump-sum annual leave payments.
• Process the full range of personnel actions, including appointments, conversions, promotions, reassignments, details, separations, and retirements.
• Apply the OPM Guide to Processing Personnel Actions (GPPA) to ensure correct NOAC selection, legal authority citation, and effective date determination.
• Lead recurring quality reviews of SF-50s and SF-52s for accuracy, completeness, and policy compliance; document findings and drive corrective actions.
• Process complex actions, including time-in-grade waivers, conversions between appointment authorities, and reinstatement cases.
• Support RIF, reorganization, and transfer-of-function processing under senior direction.

• Coordinate complex NFC service requests, error corrections, and processing window management.
• Process T&A corrections, leave audits, and pay-related reconciliations through WebTA and NFC environments.
• Coordinate end-of-year processing, leave-year transitions, and tax-related corrections.
• Reconcile pay records with personnel actions to identify discrepancies and drive…