May 22, U.S. Embassy & Consulates in South Africa Financial Specialist Jobs

Duties

The Financial Specialist (FS) reports to the Senior Financial Mangement Officer and assists in the formulation of goals, objectives, and the Management policy for Mission South Africa. The FS supervises six Foreign Service National positions, including five that are supervisory positions covering multiple financial disciplines. The FS is also responsible for conducting reviews of 21 employees: 15 Voucher Examiners, 4 Budget Analysts, and 3 Accounting Technicans.

The Financial Specialist monitors the overall workflow in FMC and provides supervision, management, training, technical and financial guidance to these 27 employees. Total funding managed is $88 million. The FS acts as the Financial Management Officer in the absence of both FMOs.

The FS serves as Mission South Africa’s ICASS Financial Operations Manager and is directly responsible for the management of the Mission’s ICASS Budget for $36 M. The FS is responsible for the strategic planning of the ICASS financial resource requirements, which includes recognizing that ICASS financial resource requirements are outlined in the Mission’s Integrated Country Strategy (ICS), the Mission Resource Request (MRR), Regional Bureau/DS/OBO data calls, and contracts.

The incumbent also coordinates, reviews, and provides oversight on ICASS Memorandums of Understandings, Service Level Agreements, workload counts, time allocations, budget formulation, and preparation of the budget in the WebICASS software. The Financial Specialist also has responsibility for budget formulation, execution, accounting, and funds control for other DOS budgets and other serviced agency funds.

The Financial Specialist supervises the three Supervisory Voucher Examiners/Certifying Officers (SVEs/COs) and works with them to mentor the voucher unit on new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), changes/modifications to existing SOPs, addresses performance issues, low productivity, implements new technology and systems, and resolves complex payment issues.

The Financial Specialist serves as an Alternate LE Certifying Officer and a Cashier Verification Officer. Mission South Africa’s payments are $91.1M annually with 62,400 lines of strip codes and 20,000+ vouchers processed annually.

Qualifications and Evaluations

Experience:

Non-Supervisory: Five years progressively responsible work experience in budgeting, planning, financial analysis, financial systems, data compilation, and reporting. Incumbent must have work experience dealing with vendors, payments, and dispute resolution skills.

Supervisory: Three years supervisory experience is required managing large teams of 30 individuals or larger with conflict resolution skills.

Job Knowledge:

Knowledge of local laws and procedures related to job duties. The incumbent must have the ability to independently use such knowledge to determine correctness of financial transactions.

Excellent operating knowledge of financial systems (U.S. Government or private firms) and USG and host country accounting procedures, accounting documents and accounting terminology.

The incumbent is expected to have in-depth knowledge of the host country economic and Value Added Tax (VAT) situation to forecast operating expenses in multiple DOS and other agency budgets and execute vendor payments.

Education Requirements:

University degree in either Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration is required.

Evaluations:

Language:

Fluency in English – speaking/reading/writing, may include the ability to translate and any other additional South African Language (good working knowledge) in speaking/reading/writing is required.

Skills and Abilities:

Must acquire broader knowledge and understanding of the financial operations, fiscal operations, relationships between post, Regional and Functional Bureaus, the ICASS Service Center, serviced agencies, the Comptroller and Global Financial Services, the Federal Appropriation and Prompt Pay processes.

Incumbent must be innovative and creative to ensure that post receives the maximum amount of funds in order to carry out Mission goals.

Uses judgement to keep appropriate officials apprised of any unique improvements and special circumstances.

How to Apply

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