Accounting Technician
Duties
What will I do in this position if hired?
This position is located within FEMA's office of the Chief Financial Officer, Financial Management Division, FEMA Finance Center, Travel Service Center. Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Receiving, reviewing and processing a wide variety of accounting documents for accuracy and completeness.
- Verifying funds availability, processing and posting transactions, and making payments to travelers, vendors, grantees, and/or other Federal agencies.
- Reviewing accounts to ensure transactions are supported by documentation and processed according to established procedures.
- Preparing routine requests for information and responding to inquiries from vendors, program offices, regional offices, state and other Federal agencies.
- Responding to travel-related inquiries, providing excellent customer service via phone and email from FEMA travelers, in order to support emergency disaster operations.
What else do I need to know?
At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.
This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.
This position will be hired into a temporary 2-year CORE, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.
This position has promotion potential to the IC-7. Promotions are dependent on your ability to perform the duties at a higher level, successful performance review displaying at least one year of experience at the lower grade, the continuing need for an employee assigned to the higher level, and management approval.
Locations
1 vacancy in the following locations: