Compensation Technician

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Skills

• (what are the skills required for the role)
• Preferred skills:
• Must possess superior multi-tasking, customer service, analytical, organizational, oral, and written communication skills.
• Requires experience with computer-based applications including word-processing, spreadsheets, and database management systems. MS Excel and MS Word experience at an intermediate level is required.
• Must have payroll and/or financial experience working in high volume work environments
• Requires a strong attention to detail and analytical problem-solving skills
• Our most Successful Employees in this Position Demonstrate:
• Curiosity
• Drive
• Research Oriented
• Attention to Detail

Job Responsibilities

• The Compensation Technician’s primary responsibilities are Time and Attendance (T&A) reporting (bi-monthly), pay calculation, individual leave accounts, allotments of pay, and other individual pay matters for those paid by Department of State. Specific Duties include, but are not limited to the following:
• Responsible for accuracy of calculating and processing T&A into various proprietary financial systems, ensuring timeliness and accuracy of information. This includes processing a variety of transactions which affect pay, leave, taxes, benefits, and other deductions.
• Receive, research, analyze, and process pay actions under Separation Actions such as, but not limited to: Agency Change, Death Package, General Inquiry – Separations & Historical, Lump Sums, Overpayment & Overpayment Response Separations, Refund/Recredit of Lump-Sum Payment, Upon Reemployment, Separations, Supplemental – Separations, T&A Processing, T&A Processing Manual Submission, Transfer of Leave (Separating), Year-to-Date Adjustment (YTDA) – Separations.
• As needed, the following Separations Monitoring may be required: T&A Adjustment Monitoring, Employees Not Paid Report, SCALP Report, Automated Adjustment Report, T&A Correction Errors by Org Code and Calculations Exception
• Qualifications:
• An Associates or four-year degree from an accredited university or college is preferred. Experience in supporting the development/implementation of large, complex financial management systems is preferred. Experience with some of the systems and technologies supporting DoS accounting and financial services preferred.
• Relevant professional experience with mainframe, web based or client-server technologies and experience performing business systems analysis; experience performing the analysis of technical and financial tasks; working independently or as part of a team. Ability to analyze data, accounting and payment records, reports and obtain the necessary information to correct problems.
• Professional and technical certification programs and years of experience may be substituted for years of education, based on credit hour equivalents
• Must be eligible to qualify for a Secret Security Clearance