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Veterans Health Administration is Hiring a Financial Analyst Near Los Angeles, CA

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/02/2024

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-7 level position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-5 level. For a GS-9 level position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7 level. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

GS-07

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-5 level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to:Pay and leave benefits; pay administration; recruitment, relocation, and retention incentives leave administration and work schedules; and provide guidance to customers by frequently interpreting regulations (must be in resume). OR
• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have 1 full year of graduate level education or superior academic achievement. OR
• Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond a bachelor's degree.

GS-09

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: analyzing and reviewing of special projects, preparing reports with corrective actions as necessary, and ensuring work assignments of the section are carried out in conformance with federal laws, financial regulations, policies, and monitors employee pay, entitlements, financial indicator reports and procedures to ensure that operations are in conformance with proper internal control procedures (must be in resume). OR
• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree orLL.B. or J.D., if related. OR
• Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond bachelors degree.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Budget Administration
• Communications
• Computer Skills
• Financial Analysis
• Principles of Finance

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: Work is mostly sedentary, although there may be some nominal walking or standing for short periods of time. The work involves coping with complex, persistent demands from a variety of sources that can be regarded as a high-pressure work situation. Good eyesight and hand dexterity is necessary to allow for reading from and accessing information from the various computer systems. Good hearing and speech abilities are necessary in order to handle the extensive telephone and face to face contacts. Work sometimes requires long hours to meet project deadlines and to devise corrective action for unexpected technical crises.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Responsibilities:

This is an open and continuous announcement. The announcement will remain open for the time period. We will be as many selections as needed. The certificates will be issued as the service needs or requests them.

Major duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Support the Chief Financial Officer, the Deputy Chief Financial Officer, and the Employee Compensation Supervisor to provide accurate and timely compensation for all Healthcare System Employees.
• Investigate Employee compensation-related errors and/or anomalies through analysis of automated systems to correct issues identified through customer service requests or internal audit discovery.
• Perform the full range of payroll duties and is responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of the pay and leave accounts for VA Medical Center.
• Provide technical assistance on pay and leave matters to unit timekeepers, supervisors, other management, and employees.
• Process complex pay adjustments that may involve transfers between pay systems with different pay, leave, and benefit entitlements that may be retroactive.
• Actively participates in agency debt collection programs such as recovery of over-payments of salary, veteran's benefits, Canteen allotments and other over-payments.
• Report and tracks escalation cases from start to finish, utilizing the Remedy-DFAS application.
• Perform as a specialist and consultant, resolving difficult problems, such as rare or even one-of-a-kind issues.
• Access payroll reports through Thin Client-System. Uses Defense Civilian Payroll System (DCPS) as payroll system of record.
• Run reports to correct potential payroll problems prior to transmission of timecards through VA Time and Attendance System (VATAS).
• Run reports after submission of timecards to troubleshoot and correct issues with the transmission of timesheet to Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS).
• Utilize the TSP application to request TSP history records for further research to determine the cause of retroactive TSP such as applied breakage amounts.
• Is in frequent contact with all grade levels of personnel through the Healthcare System as well as the personnel of other VA services, including the Financial Services Center and DFAS. Troubleshoots issues in critical or emergency situations, such as with the transmission of timesheet data to DFAS.
• Support the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the Assistant Financial Officer (AFO), and the Employee Compensation Supervisor to provide accurate and timely compensation for all Healthcare System Employees.

Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.
Work Schedule: 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 4:00PM.
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position
Position Description/PD#: Financial Analyst/PD13992A and PD10345A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

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