Financial Control Specialist

8 hours ago

Tacoma WA USA, United States Air National Guard Units Full time
Job Summary

This is a Washington Air National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service Bargaining Unit Technician position: Financial Internal Control Analyst. The selected candidate will provide administrative oversight of the Quality Assurance (QA) Program and technical assistance to the Financial Manager (FM) and staff.

Responsibilities
  • Provides technical internal control advice on military pay, civilian pay, travel pay, disbursing and collection, accounting, vendor and contract pay, budget, and systems administration.
  • Ensures effective and efficient quality standards and internal controls are in place at base level operations.
  • Researches, develops, modifies, and maintains qualitative standards for use in evaluating and monitoring performance indicators.
  • Uses verifiable and objective measures and develops statistically reliable and valid measures whenever possible.
  • Provides technical assistance and advice to the Financial Manager (FM) and staff.
  • Examines all areas to determine the effectiveness of procedures and also determines if supervisors are recording quality data upon which accurate management conclusions and decisions are based.
  • Ensures the unit is performing in accordance with established standards.
  • Manages self-inspection programs.
  • Examines all pay-related and accounting and financial functions to ensure internal accounting systems and administrative controls are sufficient to reasonably ensure all obligations and payments comply with applicable laws.
  • Ensures funds are safeguarded against waste, loss and misappropriation, and all remittances and payments are properly accounted.
  • Reviews military pay vouchers, travel payments, and entitlement documents to ensure supporting documents are applicable and valid.
  • Perform post-audit voucher review.
  • Works closely with the financial management staff to extract needed information for targeting and studying suspected potential weaknesses.
  • Identifies existing and potential material weaknesses and works with affected officials to develop a schedule of corrections.
  • Monitors access levels and dual access to financial systems and prepares or oversees the preparation of all internal control reports.
  • Examines all functional areas and determines the effectiveness of procedures, the integrity of financial and accounting data, and other decision-support criteria used by management.
  • Ensures quality assurance standards and internal controls are in place within the comptroller office and reports discrepancies to the FM.
  • Focal point for fraud prevention.
  • Reviews retrieval data provided by the local systems branch to screen for any unauthorized access level or dual access between the payable systems and the general accounting system.
  • Reports discrepancies to the FM for further research.
  • Based on general supervisory guidance, reviews and coordinates, with management and affected supervisors, new or modified applications affecting automated systems.
  • Identifies needed system changes and conducts system change tests to ensure changes produce the desired matches such as, duplicate payments, collections, and reconciliations.
  • Responsible for analyzing findings and recommendations.
  • Reports discrepancies to the FM.
  • Gathers data, tracks discrepancies, prepares trend charts, and facilitates discussions with personnel at financial or QA meetings.
  • Ensures all open discrepancies are consistently and aggressively addressed and resolved through completion.
  • Prepares monthly Discrepancy Tracking Report to management for review.
  • Cross-feeds various reports and bulletins, on a routine basis, through various electronic communications such as, emails and websites throughout the Wing financial management community.
  • Facilitates monthly QA meetings and prepares minutes.
  • Based on study results, determines need for refresher and supplementary training.
  • Develops, schedules, and conducts training.
Requirements
  • Military Grades: E- E7
  • Compatible Military Assignments: 6F
  • Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
  • Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
  • Must maintain membership in the WA Air National Guard for continued employment.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance of the position.
  • This position is covered by the Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Amendment (30 Sep 96) of the Gun Control Act (Lautenberg Amendment) of 1968.
  • Position requires ability to establish effective professional working relationships with coworkers and customers, contributing to a cooperative working environment and successful accomplishment of the mission.
  • May occasionally be required to work other than normal duty hours; overtime may be required.
  • The duties and responsibilities of your job may significantly impact the environment.
  • Members of the financial management workforce are required to participate in the Financial Management Certification Program; therefore, achieving certification is a condition of employment.
Qualifications
  • Skill in collecting and analyzing data effectively, efficiently, and accurately.
  • Skill in applying procedures and directives by reading and interpreting program material.
  • Skill in presenting formal training presentations and briefings.
  • Ability to prepare reports and presentation formats.
  • Must have at least 36 months fundamental working experiences with a validated understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the occupational series and grade or 1 year equivalent to at least GS-9.
Education
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Completed undergraduate or graduate education, the awarded college degree should be in one of, or a combination of the following disciplines: accounting, business, finance, economics, math, statistics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organizational management.

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