Summary ***THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.*** This position is for a Financial Management Analyst, Position Description Number D2513P01 located in 116th ACW, Robins AFB, Georgia, United States. This is a full-time, Excepted Permanent, dual status position which requires Georgia Air National Guard Membership. Area of Consideration: Current members of the Georgia Air National Guard. Responsibilities As a Financial Management Analyst, GS-0501-11, you will: Independently perform and examine financial management functions to ensure internal and external accounting systems and administrative controls are sufficient to confirm that obligations and disbursements comply with applicable laws, and that funds are safeguarded against waste, loss, and misappropriation. Review accounting and pay documents, travel vouchers, and vendor payments to ensure supporting documentation is proper and valid. Perform post-audit voucher reviews. Aggregate data from multiple financial and accounting systems and sources in order to directly or indirectly provide the Comptroller, Wing Commander, United States Property and Fiscal Officer (USPFO), National Guard Bureau (NGB), Unites States Air Force (USAF), DFAS, Department of the Treasury and senior level management with accurate and timely financial reporting. Ensure the proper documentation, accounting, and auditability of funds, and their traceability to the USPFO in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) regulations and/or applicable laws. Analyze and accurately process financial services transactions (i.e., payroll, debts, and miscellaneous entitlements) while applying quality assurances techniques. Resolve complex functional problems within the pay system for affected customers. Develop recommendations for actions under uncertain conditions with short and rapidly changing program deadlines. Facilitate the resolution of intricate entitlement discrepancies for serviced customers and ensures proper interfaces with appropriate DoD agencies and federal financial systems. Execute full spectrum pay and entitlement operations (Military Pay, Civilian Pay, Accounting, and Travel Pay). Provide expert interpretation on DoD and DFAS regulatory and administrative guidelines in accordance with generally accepted principles. Interpret policies and collaborates with the financial management enterprise to facilitate best practices and compliance assurance. Analyze and measure the effectiveness and efficiency of financial operations; reliability of financial reporting; compliance with policies, regulations, applicable laws and guidance; and ensure that internal controls are in place. Determine the legality of entitlements/collection actions and provides decision support to the Financial Manager. Process data and performs broad-in-depth financial analysis of interrelated accounting, military and civilian pay, accounts payable and receivable, and various travel entitlements to resolve especially difficult and sensitive, out-of-balance conditions associated with processing actions within Financial Management systems. Analyze and evaluate data to conduct a variety of fiscal reconciliation, review, and account adjustments. Analyze diverse financial management technical methods, techniques, precedent cases, and procedures to resolve an extensive range of difficult financial issues or problems. Reconcile Resource Center Manager (RCM) accounts ensuring data integrity. Coordinate with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and posts validated accounts to the General Ledger. Resolve pay and entitlement problems unique to the customer. Manage and execute internal control procedures to protect against fraud, waste, and abuse. Perform other duties as assigned. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Military Grades: E8 and below Compatible Military Assignments: Immaterial. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-011 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. A non-award SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. GENERAL EXPERIENCE: To qualify an applicant for any GS-0501 position, apply and evaluate the applicant's competencies (Skills, Knowledge, Abilities, and Behaviors), military and civilian experiences, completed military and civilian education, learned skills, obtained knowledge, endorsed abilities, and training program accomplishments. The following six basic qualification factors are applicable to the GS-0501 Career Levels, as cited above: Skilled in collecting and analyzing data effectively, efficiently, and accurately; Ability to clearly enunciate English without impediment of speech that would interfere or prohibit effective communication; Ability to write English in reports and presentation formats; Ability to communicate clearly and effectively; Skilled in presenting formal training presentations and briefings; and, Skilled in applying procedures and directives by reading and interpreting program material. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: To qualify for hire consideration into one of the ANG GS-0501-11 positions located in the Wing Comptroller Finance Office, the ANG applicant must be eligible for entry into the position's financial management certification career program based on the position's GS-grade and/or the applicant's military rank before final approval and appointment is processed. An applicant must have at least 12 months of finance program experiences and competencies that provided knowledge of financial principles and procedures. An applicant must have an excellent under-standing of the basic principles and concepts of the Air National Guard financial business program requirements. An ANG applicant must have experiences and training that demonstrates the abilities to follow directions, to read, retain, and understand a variety of instructions, regulations, policies and procedures. Applicant must have a working knowledge of the Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) program. Skilled in presenting providing direction and guidance to support the comptroller in planning, implementing and meeting the FM FIAR program's objectives. Skilled in in applying related laws, regulations, precedents, methods and techniques of budgeting. Knowledgeable of the Office of the Management and Budget (OMB) compliance requirements with OMB Circular A-123 (OMB 123) and FM FIAR Guidance. Skilled and capable to follow the established FM FIAR Methodology which provides a step-by-step approach to achieving improved financial information and audit readiness. Skilled in developing management plans that document business and financial environment. Skilled in identifying and analyzing program risks and tests controls, weaknesses, and/or deficiencies. Education You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. To qualify for the National Guard GS-0501 Title 32 Excepted Service positions, on the basis of completed undergraduate or graduate education, the awarded college degree should be in one of -or- be a combination of the following disciplines: Accounting, business, finance, economics, math, statistics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organizational management. AS A GENERAL RULE, ONE QUARTER COLLEGE CREDIT HOUR EQUALS .67 SEMESTER COLLEGE CREDIT HOUR. For example, to compute the number of semester hours an applicant earned, after he/she successfully completed 36 quarter credits in accounting discipline courses by: 1. Use the data point of .67 to compute Quarter Hours into Semester Hours:36 Quarter Hours X .67 Semester Hour = 24 Semester Hours. 2. May compute the number of semester hours an applicant has earned, after he/she successfully completed 36 quarter credits in accounting discipline courses:36 Quarter Hours /1.5 = 24 Semester Hours. Hint: Whether you are converting Semester Hours into Quarter Hours; or, Quarter Hours into Semester Hours, the applicable computation data points are correct. Additional Information If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx). Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.