Summary
The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in Cash Management, Accounting Operations, Office of Finance and Accounting (OF&A), Under Secretary for Finance and Administration.
Duties
This position is located in Cash Management, Accounting Operations, Office of Finance and Accounting (OF&A), Under Secretary for Finance and Administration. This position produces and analyzes financial data. In this position, you will: Prepare financial forecasts for use in unit budgeting and production of cash management report(s) as well as various reports using automated financial systems. Analyze and interpret financial data to identify continual and short-term changes in the program requirements and recommend corrective and responsive actions to use as well as analysis of various financial partners' cost/fee structures, contracts and revenue streams. Identify, track and correct incomplete, unreliable and conflicting data that impact assigned segments of reports or projects, including open related issues such as FSS/CMM, ERP financial disbursements (IPAC, Debit Cards, BOA, & WU), pay cycles (treasury or bank and AR billing tasks) and associated cash adjustments needed to balance assigned accounts. Troubleshoot problems, perform accounts examinations to include review of SI-7002 Ledger Activity PD Version: v.1.0, 11/24/2024 Last Modified: v.1.0, 11/24/2024 Report, non-cash GL account 1199, 1121 Debit Card account, etc. and resolve problematic areas within assigned areas.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. For information on qualification requirements, see Qualification Standards Handbook for General Schedule Positions on OPM website.
Education
Education may be substituted for experience as described in "Qualifications".
How you will be evaluated
Applicants for this position may be evaluated in multiple stages. The first stage is an evaluation of your responses to the online multiple-choice questions that assess your experience, education, and/or training for the job related competencies below: Ability to accurately enter incoming revenue sources, e.g., cash, checks and credit cards in a detailed format into computerized databases and maintain up-to-date records. Knowledge of cash management and related policies, precedents, goals, objectives, regulations and guidelines. Ability to conduct regular reviews of entries posted to the general ledger to verify accuracy of entries and to monitor funds expenditure. For identified corrections this involves initiating documents to effect adjustments and then performing the adjustments Knowledge of the capabilities, operating characteristics and advanced functions of a variety of types of financial management software (i.e., ERP, MS Excel) to accurately prepare, process, record and monitor administrative documents, reports and spreadsheets. Applicants who meet or exceed minimum qualifications will be assigned to one of three category groups based on job-related criteria: Best Category - Meets the minimum qualification requirements and excels in most of the job related competencies above. Better Category - Meets the minimum qualification requirements and satisfies most of the job related competencies above. Good Category - Meets the minimum qualification requirements, but does not satisfy most of the job related competencies above to a substantive degree. This category rating process does not add veterans' preference points or apply the "rule of three", but protects the rights of veterans by placing them ahead of non-preference eligibles within each category. A selecting official may make selections from the highest quality category (Best Category) provided no preference eligible in that category is passed over to select a non-preference eligible in that category unless the requirements of 5 U.S.C. 3317(b) or 3318(b) are satisfied. Preference eligibles who meet minimum qualification requirements and who have a compensable service-connected disability of at least 10 percent must be listed in the highest quality category, except when the position being filled is scientific or professional at the GS-9 grade level or higher. Applicants who have not submitted a resume in the USAjobs system and/or have not answered all of the vacancy questions will not be considered for this position. Important Note: Your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses to the occupational questionnaire or other assessment tool for consistency. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your resume, you will be assigned a rating commensurate to your described experience. Your resume should provide sufficient information regarding how your education and experience relate to this position, including the major duties and qualifications criteria listed. You may preview questions for this vacancy.