mos.directory

Marine Corps MOS · Support

3432 Finance Technician

Current service use not established

This code is listed in the directory. Inclusion alone does not confirm current service use.

Browse Marine Corps

Overview

Finance Technicians maintain and review master pay accounts, process payments, and perform fiscal accounting for related transactions. They adjudicate, compute, review, and pay official travel reimbursement vouchers, and staff noncommissioned officers supervise personnel handling pay accounts or travel payments.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: CL 100

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: navmc-1200-1l-fy26 (source date 2025-03). Policy applicability has not been established.

See if you would hit this score: free ASVAB practice test

Core Skills

  • Master pay account review and payment processing
  • Official travel reimbursement adjudication and computation
  • Fiscal accounting for military pay transactions

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

Maintaining, reviewing, and processing payments for military master pay accounts transfers directly to civilian payroll processing.

How to prepare: Practice a civilian payroll cycle covering hours worked, pay adjustments, wages, and deductions in a payroll application.

What the civilian work involves
  • Verify attendance, hours worked, and pay adjustments, and post information onto designated records.
  • Process and issue employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.
  • Compute wages and deductions, and enter data into computers.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Workday software
  • Kronos Workforce Timekeeper

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

Fiscal accounting for pay transactions and the computation and review of travel reimbursement vouchers transfer to checking accounting entries and supporting documents.

How to prepare: Complete a practice bookkeeping exercise in QuickBooks that records transactions and checks postings against supporting documents.

What the civilian work involves
  • Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.
  • Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Intuit QuickBooks
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 3432

    [1] MOS 3432 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 43831; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Master pay account review and payment processing, Official travel reimbursement adjudication and computation, Fiscal accounting for military pay transactions, Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks (O*NET 43-3051.00), Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks (O*NET 43-3031.00)

    [2]NAVMC 1200.1L MOS 3432: Related SOC titles · MOS 3432 section "e. Related Standard Occupational Classification"

    Supports: Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks (O*NET 43-3051.00)

  2. O*NET: Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks (O*NET 43-3051.00)

  3. O*NET: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks (O*NET 43-3031.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 3432

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

Report an error on this page