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Financial Specialist (Military)
U.S. Army Medical Command · Bethesda, Maryland · Closes in 7 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
Only U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. may apply, and you must provide proof of citizenship. Veterans and military spouses are considered along with all other candidates.
Experience: You need one year of specialized experience comparable to GS-7 work. It includes providing financial entitlement and military pay help, resolving financial problems, giving technical and fiscal advice, and using automated financial systems to prepare and analyze statistical reports.
Education: A master's degree or equivalent graduate degree, or two full years of progressively higher graduate education leading to one, in a field such as accounting or business administration. You can also combine education and experience, but the percentages must add up to at least 100%. Foreign education must be evaluated or given full U.S. credit.
Licenses and certifications:
- Financial Management Level 2 Certification, which you must obtain within the required time
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 7 days (November 10, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, using your resume, supporting documents, and questionnaire answers. If you inflate your qualifications or experience, you may lose consideration, and missing information can make your application incomplete.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, a security clearance (Secret), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Your resume must be two pages or less and list hours worked per week for each job, or it may be marked incomplete.
- If you qualify through education, upload your transcripts, or you will be rated ineligible.
- Only your resume is included automatically, so re-select any other documents in the online application, and allow up to an hour for uploads to clear the virus scan.
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