Accounting Technician

This position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6), Durham VA Medical Center (VAMC), in Fiscal Service. This Position is responsible for a variety of accounting, agent cashier, travel and payroll support functions. Classifies, processes and performs periodic audits of accounting transactions to include bills of collections, managing check deposits and analyze data and produce reports.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/22/2024.

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-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. 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 former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.


You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Using accounting terminology and account codes relating to an automated system; balancing and reconciling accounts and records; collecting and compiling accounting data to prepare reports; preparing status of funds reports; performing monthly reconciliations/adjustments of accounts payable and accounts receivable; entering accounting transactions into an automated data management system; processing and verifying invoices; and working from a variety of accounting documents and/or systems. (*To receive credit for these skills, they must be documented in your resume.)

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

• Accounting Operations
• Computer Skills
• Customer Service
• Federal Funds Processing
• Technical Competence

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: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 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 is requires some physical effort such as standing, walking, bending or sitting. There are not special physical demands.

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

Responsibilities:

Perform clerical, assistant or technician level work in support of a budget, accounting, auditing and fiscal and/or financial management function. Performs budget administration support, financial systems support, cash processing or accounting technician work.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Examines, verifies, and maintains financial accounts and accounting data and classifies accounting transactions including the verification of the accuracy and completeness of the accounting data.
• Reviews and classifies a variety of financial transactions involving the operations of the Medical Center including journalizing corrective actions for erroneous conditions.
• Receives and analyzed various types of documents to determine propriety, validity, budget, expenditure limitation, completeness and correctness of account data.
• Determines proper cost centers, budget object codes (BOC), appropriations and fund control points to be entered into a computerized cost accounting system.
• Monitors and makes input to current vendor file so that vendors may be paid properly under the FMS system
• Researches and interprets and verifies which appropriation and general ledger accounts a document and subsequent accounting transactions will affect.
• Maintains control of receipts and deposits.
• Responsible for creating bills of collection associated with fiscal transaction processing and recording the debt in the proper account and appropriation and applying diligent follow-up and collection actions.
• Completes all agent Cashier functions in accordance with applicable Treasury Department rules, VA Regulations.
• Performs collection activity that includes receiving, receipting and depositing of funds to local bank depository.
• Assist in payroll support to review time and attendance records of a diversified workforce covering a variety of different types of appointments and employment situations under various pay systems with different entitlements to pay, leave, deductions and benefits based upon pay plans.
• Serves as backup travel liaison for contact with other Medical Centers , VA Central Office, VISN and non-VA personnel as necessary.
• Perform other job related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: 8:00 a.m. -4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday
Telework: 6 days per pay period
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Accounting Technician/PD06218A and PD062180
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Salary : $43,778 - $56,908