Budget Technician

Summary

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As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

This position is also being announced to All U.S. Citizens and Nationals under 26-SDCA--DE.

Duties

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If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team in the Administrative Division that is responsible for performing a variety of complex procedural and technical duties related to the formulation and execution of the District budget and financial management activities. Typical work assignments include:

• Maintaining and reviewing financial documents, verifying accuracy, approving expenditures and analyzing affect to overall financial management activities;
• Preparing invoices and other fiscal items for payment; verifying amounts with original obligation documents; noting, clarifying and correcting discrepancies;
• Initiating and completing all correspondence necessary to resolve discrepancies in fiscal transactions with vendors and/or commercial firms;
• Using financial management systems to locate information, extract data and run reports;
• Entering obligations, amendments, delivery and all actions into the official financial system; and
• Reviewing the utilization of funds, funds availability and overall budgetary process of the agency.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation
• You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
• If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• Time-in-Grade:
  Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet all qualification requirements upon the closing date of this announcement.

Qualifications

GS-5: To be eligible at the GS-5 level, you must have: at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-4 level;
or four years of education above the high school level;
or a combination of both specialized experience and education as explained below.

Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-4 level in Federal Service. Examples of specialized experience include: providing administrative support using automated office systems such as word processing, spreadsheets, electronic mail, and databases for gathering and reporting information; filing; and records management

Combining Education and Experience: Successfully completed post-high school education may be used to meet the total one year of specialized experience requirement equivalent to the GS-4 grade level. Only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. One full academic year of study (30 semester hours) beyond the second year is equivalent to 6 months of specialized experience.

GS-6: To be eligible at the GS-6 level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 level in Federal service.

Specialized

Experience:

One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 level in Federal Service. Examples of specialized experience include: assisting higher level budget analysts in monitoring a unit's operating budget; preparing routine payments, running recurring reports, and inputting data into an automated financial management system; reviewing documents with financial implications to ensure they are accurate and complete; and maintaining a file system for payments and invoices.

GS-7: To be eligible at the GS-7 level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-6 level in Federal service.

Specialized

Experience:

One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-6 level in Federal Service.…