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A01A Personnel Specialist Advanced Disbursing Operations

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating. Part of the Personnel Specialist rating

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Overview

A Personnel Specialist in Advanced Disbursing Operations directs and coordinates offices that use automated payroll and travel systems. This specialist audits payroll entries and travel claims, directs payroll services, enforces financial controls, and supervises audits of system files, records, logs, and financial returns.

Core Skills

  • Payroll entry and system record audits
  • Permanent-change-of-station and temporary-duty travel claim settlement
  • Financial controls for disbursing accountability

Civilian Career Paths

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Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

Directing automated payroll services and auditing payroll entries transfers directly to civilian payroll processing and reconciliation.

How to prepare: Complete a civilian payroll practice exercise covering wage calculations, deductions, pay adjustments, and period-end reconciliation.

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.
  • Prepare and balance period-end reports, and reconcile issued payrolls to bank statements.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Workday software

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

Auditing disbursing records, settling travel claims, and maintaining monetary accountability support checking financial entries and supporting documentation.

How to prepare: Practice reviewing a sample transaction ledger in accounting software, checking amounts, account codes, and supporting documents for errors.

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.
  • Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Intuit QuickBooks
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC A01A

    [1] NEC entry "A01A - Personnel Specialist Advanced Disbursing Operations"; cached text line 1072; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Payroll entry and system record audits, Permanent-change-of-station and temporary-duty travel claim settlement, Financial controls for disbursing accountability, Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks (O*NET 43-3051.00), Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks (O*NET 43-3031.00)

  2. O*NET: Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

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

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

Defense contractor jobs for A01A

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