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HR Federal Personnel Processing Specialist

AvantGarde, LLC Career Center
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 8/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/7/2026

Key Responsibilities:

  • Process and validate a wide range of federal personnel actions, including appointments, promotions, reassignments, pay actions, corrections, and separations.
  • Process payroll and compensation actions, including pay setting, premium pay, leave actions, allowances, overseas entitlements, and retroactive pay adjustments.
  • Maintain personnel records, electronic Official Personnel Folders (eOPFs), position data, and organizational coding while ensuring data accuracy and compliance.
  • Conduct quality assurance reviews, resolve personnel and payroll discrepancies, and perform data reconciliations across HR and payroll systems.
  • Calculate and validate Service Computation Dates (SCDs), service credit determinations, and leave accrual entitlements.
  • Administer employee debt management activities, including debt establishment, repayment agreements, salary offsets, and waiver processing.
  • Provide technical guidance to managers and employees on federal personnel processing, payroll, compensation, records management, and applicable regulations.
  • Manage assigned workloads through case management systems while developing standard operating procedures (SOPs), reports, training materials, and process improvement recommendations.
  • Utilize federal HR, payroll, personnel records, and case management systems, including DFAS, ServiceNow (SNOW), EHCM (PeopleSoft), eOPF, and other agency-specific HR systems to process and maintain personnel actions and employee records.

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