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Serves as the Personnel and Finance Action Officer for an Army Service Component Command with subordinate units, battalions and Security Cooperation Offices throughout Latin America to include detachments stateside.

Military Personnel: Provides advice on diverse military personnel questions or problems in a multitude of action areas ensuring compliance with procedures and regulations.

Prioritizes actions and ensure prompt processing of personnel actions; analyzes problems and concerns and develops internal methods, procedures and controls to accomplish workload.

Has a broad understanding of administrative regulations and procedures to ensure that plans and programs are developed for effective management of Command personnel.

Processes awards for soldiers including reviewing for grammatical accuracy, assigning permanent order numbers, filing and distributing finalized awards.

Maintains OER and NCOER policies, program objectives and regulatory and procedural matters; obtains, reviews and analyzes statistical data to identify progress and problem areas; makes recommendations and ensures evaluations meet regulatory and procedural guidance.

Coordinates the Command Sponsorship program for the subordinate units, battalions and SCOs throughout Latin America. Coordinates the Environmental Morale Leave Program and Student Travel Program for PEP Officers in our AOR.

Publishes travel orders for Service Member and dependents. Maintains Access Database, which monitors awards, evaluations, arrivals, departures, levy briefs, orders and rating schemes for the command. Tracks and maintains arrivals, slotting, deployments, training and departures in EMILPO and PERSTEMPO. Pulls monthly reports. Specializes in retirement, transition, and unqualified resignation for Soldiers.

Coordinates TAPS, retirement medical appointments, and mandatory pre-retirement briefing for Soldiers. Records Manager for IPERMS. Ensures all Soldiers records are updated and correct.

Submits required documents through IPERMS for record updates.

Assists in monitoring programs relating to Security Cooperation Office and Military Personnel Exchange Program plans and programs and recommends procedures to expedite the processing of actions.

Finds ways to improve production or increase the quality of work directed. Reviews and updates Special Instructions (SI) for Officers and Enlisted personnel nominated for MPEP and SONS program.

Utilizes the Personal Property Consignment Instruction Guide – Online (PPCIG-OL) to ensure all SIs are incompliance with country instructions and regulations. Coordinates with Human Resources Command (HRC) to ensure the instructions are integrated in Officer RFOs and Enlisted AAA-234s.

Military Finance: Provides expertise, guidance and provides one-on-one assistance to service members and annuitants explaining standard pay entitlements, answers inquiries regarding new accounts, cost-of-living adjustments methods of computation, etc.

Ensures all military entitlements are in compliance with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), Department of Defense (DoD) and Joint Travel Regulations (JTF). Process or review a wide variety of standard pay actions which establish, maintain, adjust or close pay accounts to adequately compensate service members, active or retired.

Reviews source, substantiating and supporting pay authorization documents to ensure completeness, propriety, authentication, accuracy, and compliance with applicable regulations, policies and precedents.

Maintains the Foreign Language Bonus Pay Program and ensures proper payment for authorized languages.

Maintains the Leave and Passes Control Log by providing leave control numbers, ensuring Soldiers submit all leave within three days of return, reconciles with DROT reports and closes out the leave log. Ensures all requested leave and Passes are incompliance with the leave regulation AR 600-8-10. Reviewer for the monthly Unit Commander’s Financial Reports.