Financial Clerk

**Duties**:
The Financial Management Center (FMC) is responsible for processing all official payments for the Tri Missions.
These payments contain separate line items for Value Added Tax (VAT), which is refundable to diplomatic missions in France.
On a monthly basis, FMC ensures documentation related to official VAT paid are submitted timely and correctly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs so the Joint Missions can be reimbursed.
The incumbent is responsible for gathering and organizing all documents required by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for VAT reimbursement.

**Qualifications and Evaluations**:

- Requirements:

- Education Requirements:
Completion of secondary school is required.

**Please note this announcement is simultaneously advertised with the substitution of experience for education (PARIS-2024-035 RS), please see details below**:
Completion of Middle School + a minimum of 6 years' experience in vouchering, cashiering, or billing intake in a U.S. Government agency is required.
- Middle School is defined as the completion of Primary School and at least 3 years full time attendance at an established educational institution._- Evaluations:
- Qualifications:
**Experience**:
At least two years' experience in vouchering, cashiering, or billing intake in a U.S. Government agency.

**Please note this announcement is simultaneously advertised with the substitution of experience for education (PARIS-2024-035 RS)**:
Completion of Middle School + a minimum of 6 years' experience in vouchering, cashiering, or billing intake in a U.S. Government agency is required.
- Middle School is defined as the completion of Primary School and at least 3 years full time attendance at an established educational institution._**Languages - These will be tested**:
ENGLISH: Good working knowledge - Speaking - Reading & Writing

FRENCH: Good working knowledge - Speaking - Reading & Writing**Job Knowledge**:
Good knowledge of software such as Excel, Word, Adobe, SharePoint, and Outlook.
Good knowledge of Power Automate.**Skills And Abilities**:
Able to query simple searches in accounting information systems.
Able to use basic features of Excel, Adobe, Word, and Outlook.
Has Power Automate skills on creating scripts in Power Automate to download files and package them.**Benefits and Other Info**:

- Benefits:

- Agency Benefits:
**SALARY**: the **annual gross salary includes**: the profit-sharing allowance, the vacation allowance, the bonus allowance and the “Comité d’Entreprise” allowance.

**MEAL TICKETS**: Meal tickets have a face value of EUR 8.25/day. 60% of the daily amount is paid by the U.S. Government. An employee contribution of EUR 3.30 per ticket will be deducted in payroll. The number of meal tickets is limited to 202 workdays per year.

**TRANSPORTATION**:Employees are eligible for a reimbursement of 50% of the cost of public transportation passes purchased for commuting purposes.

**HOLIDAYS**: The U.S. Missions in France observe eleven U.S. holidays per year and up to ten French holidays.

**For EFMs**, benefits should be discussed with the Human Resources Office.

The pay plan is assigned at the time of the conditional offer letter by the HR Office.
- Other Information:
**HIRING PREFERENCE SELECTION PROCESS**:
**HIRING PREFERENCE ORDER**
- Appointment Eligible Family Member (AEFM) / U.S. citizen Eligible Family Member (USEFM) who is a preference-eligible U.S. Veteran*
- AEFM / USEFM
- Foreign Service (FS) on Leave without Pay (LWOP) and Civil Service (CS) with reemployment rights**
- IMPORTANT: US citizen Eligible Family Member (USEFM) applicants who claim status as a preference-eligible U.S. Veteran must submit a copy of their most recent DD-214 (“Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty”) preferably Member Copy 4, Letter from Veterans’ Affairs which indicates the present existence of a service-connected disability, equivalent documentation, or certification. A “certification” is any written document from the armed forces that certifies the service member is expected to be discharged or released from active duty service in the armed forces under honorable conditions within 120 days after the certification is submitted by the applicant. The certification letter should be on letterhead of the appropriate military branch of the service and contain (1) the military service dates including the expected discharge or release date; and (2) the character of service. Acceptable documentation must be submitted in order for the preference to be given.

**This level of preference applies to all FS employees on LWOP and CS with re-employment rights back to their agency or bureau.

For complete definitions of AEFM, USEFM, EFM, Member of Household, etc., please visit the 3 FAM 7210 Definitions.

**ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT CONSIDERATIONS**
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- Current employees serving a probationary period are not eligible.
- Current employees with an Overall Summary Rating of Needs Improvement, Unsatisfac