U.S. Embassy in South Africa Financial Specialist Jobs

U.S. Embassy 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

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