Who may apply: Current, permanent DoD Federal Civilian Employees in the competitive service, eligible Priority Placement Program DoD Military Spouse Preference applicants, eligible PPP applicants, and current DoD VRA employees. **This Job Opportunity Announcement is using an additional online assessment tool to evaluate applicants. Please review the HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED, REQUIRED DOCUMENTS, HOW TO APPLY and NEXT STEPS sections below for instructions.
One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-11) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required. Specialized experience is defined as experience such as: Designing or working with automated systems, including principles, techniques, policies, or regulations related to financial operations. Identifying, documenting, and recommending systems requirements or researching issues related to the integration of financial systems and the implementation of new policies and legislation. Time-in-Grade: Current or former federal employees who have held a GS position in the preceding 52 weeks, must meet the time in grade requirement. Applicant must have served 52 weeks as a GS-11 or higher grade in Federal Service. You may qualify for consideration if meeting time-in grade, specialized experience, education requirement, 90 days after competitive appointment requirement, and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement, unless otherwise indicated on the announcement.
Serves as a senior specialist responsible for the daily effective operation of one or more critical financial systems as well as identifying problems, needed enhancements, or system changes based on continuous monitoring of financial systems.
Works with all information sources to improve system performance and reliability through the development of databases and micro-applications.
Reviews operational capabilities and provides comments and recommendations for proposed changes, coordinating with peers throughout the directorate to determine the best method for accomplishing the system change.
Prepares System Change Requests and develops documentation required for configuration control board/configuration management information system overview.
Researches, analyzes, and resolves daily system problems related to system interface, database management, and processing cycles.
Oversees project teams of subordinate financial systems specialists to accomplish larger scale reviews, system changes, testing and implementation.