Accounting Technician

This position is located in the Finance Department of the Cass Lake Service Unit, in Cass Lake, Minnesota in the Bemidji, Minnesota Region. The position performs accounts receivable support functions for the patient account system, through the posting of payments and adjustments to accounts receivable in the Patient Accounts Section, Finance Department.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying.

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; religious; spiritual; community; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum Qualifications for GS-06: 1 Year of Specialized Experience equivalent to at least the GS-05 Grade Level. Specialized Experience is defined as experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. Examples include: Preparing invoices, bills, or vouchers for payment by reviewing the documents (purchase order, contract, blanket purchase agreement, call order, delivery tickets, etc.) to ensure they are authorized, obligated, charged to the correct appropriation and support by documentation; providing customer service for inquiries to payment status, customer accounts and accounting procedures; working with subsystems related to payments including Secure Payment System (SPS), the GOVTRIP System, the Unified Financial Management System UFMS Accounts Payable module and various UFMS queries to analyze payments.

Minimum Qualifications for GS-07: 1 Year of Specialized Experience equivalent to at least the GS-06 Grade Level OR 1 Year (18 semester hours) of Graduate Education that is directly related to the work of the position. Examples of Specialized Experience include: Verifying correctness and accuracy of supporting documents when auditing all types of payment; resolving vendor inquiries about non-receipt of payment by utilizing the Unified Financial Management System (UFMS); coordinating manual Supplier Banking Information request and ensures suppliers are entered in UFMS with a valid Central Contractor Registration (CCR) site; ensuring that invoices are entered, matched to a purchase order/contract number, validated and initaited for invoice approval.

Time In Grade
Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year of service at the next lower grade level. Time-In-Grade provisions do not apply under the Excepted Service Examining Plan (ESEP).

You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for posting of all contractual/adjustments related with payments, maintain files for posting, verify accuracy of payment, reviews and examines bill types of patient care to third party payers and reviews all remittance advices from third payer.
• Enter payment date reflecting proper codes submitted by the third payer, reviews and verifies data as necessary upon entering into system.
• Reconciles daily to ensure third payer remits are processed accurately, audit all documents received for completeness and accuracy and determine if payments are full or partial in accordance with policy and procedure.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual reconciliations of third party billing to assure collection, billed date and computerized reports are in balance, provides assistance with fund status updates and fiscal control.

Salary : $44,117