Summary

This position is located in Austin, Texas at the Financial Services Center (FSC).

The incubent provides program management oversight for nation-wide Payroll execution while ensuring VA's multi-billion-dollar payroll is reported and recorded timely and accuraly.

Duties

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Major Duties:

• Plans organizational structure and staffing needs.
• Ensures an efficient, effective and economical position structure is established that will provide career and promotional opportunities and skills.
• Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work.
• Plans, organizes, and directs the operations of the Payroll Support Operations Section.
• Responsible for coordination for payroll audits and inspections.

Work Schedule: Mon- Fri 8:00am - 4:30pm

Compressed/Flexible: Available with supervisory approval.

Telework: Ad hoc telework (situational telework) available as determined by the agency policy.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: PD15210A

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Supervisory Probationary Statement: Applicants selected for this position may be required to serve a one-year supervisory probationary period. Failure to successfully complete the supervisory probationary period will result in the employee being reassigned to a position in the agency of no lower grade and pay than the one the employee left to accept the supervisory or managerial position.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
• Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/16/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to some former Federal employees applying for reinstatement, as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

See the Required Document section below for more information regarding the SF-50s needed to verify time-in-grade.

You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to:

• Directing and supervising technical and administrative work involving payroll management functions and activities while supporting the entire payroll agency, which operates at all organizational levels and components; possessing knowledge of resource planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and monitoring of activities; directing, managing, and coordinating all division activities related to financial management systems; and recommending courses of action that will result in organizational structure changes, accomplishment of program milestone schedules, required resource funding levels, and long-range plans for assigned systems.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Managing Human Resources
• Strategic Thinking
• Technical Competence
• Communications
• Analysis and Problem Solving

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note: Resume must include job title and employer name, number of hours worked per week, start and end dates (including month and year), list of duties and responsibilities for each position held. In addition, if the experience was a federal position, you must list series and grade for each position held. Failure to include this information may result in an ineligible rating. A full year of work is considered to be 40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: The work normally involves mental rather than physical exertion. The work is mostly sedentary.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be found well qualified, applicants must meet the following qualifications:

• Independently directing and managing nationwide payroll programs or operations involving multiple organizational components, subordinate teams, and competing priorities, while ensuring program objectives, milestones, and service requirements are achieved.
• Leading the resolution of highly complex payroll, financial management, or human resources systems issues that cross organizational or functional boundaries and may affect individual employees, facilities, multiple organizations, or the entire workforce.
• Developing and implementing program strategies, policies, processes, or system enhancements to address complex operational requirements, improve program performance, mitigate risks, and achieve long-range organizational objectives.
• Providing authoritative technical and strategic advice to senior executives and organizational leaders on complex payroll, financial management, resource, or program issues, including analyzing alternatives, projecting impacts and costs, and recommending courses of action.
• Directing the allocation and realignment of significant program resources by analyzing workload, funding, staffing, schedules, and competing organizational requirements and independently establishing priorities to ensure efficient and economical accomplishment of program objectives.
• Leading and developing multidisciplinary teams responsible for complex program operations, including assigning and evaluating work, establishing priorities and performance expectations, resolving significant operational issues, and providing expert technical guidance and recommendations to senior leadership.

Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

IF APPLYING AS A CTAP/ICTAP ELIGIBLE:

You must submit the following documentation demonstrating eligibility for CTAP/ICTAP:

• Resume
• Agency Reduction in Force notice;
• Most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location
• Most recent performance appraisal (must be fully successful or above)

Local Commuting Area: The local commuting area for this position is defined as a radius of 50 miles from 8000 Metropolis Driver, Suite B, Austin TX 78744.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Additional information

Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process, visit Human Resources and Administration (HRA) at The Fair Chance Act.

Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR [redacted](u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator.

Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.

For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.