The Accounting Technician for the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. The complex 1A medical system is comprised of two main hospital campuses and eight Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs). Fiscal Service performs professional and technical accounting work and provides advisory financial services that affect a major regional healthcare presence. The Accounting Technician provides technical assistance, support, and maintenance of accounting records at this medical system.

Duties

***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION*** This position involves a multi-grade career ladder. The major duties listed below represent the full performance level of GS-7. At the GS-6 grade level, you will perform assignments of a more limited scope and with less independence. You will progressively acquire the background necessary to perform at the full performance level of GS-7. Promotion is at the discretion of the supervisor and is contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of higher level work, and availability of funds. Major Duties and Responsibilities: Performs clerical, assistant, or technician level work in support of a budget, accounting, auditing, fiscal and financial management function. Performs budget administration support, financial systems support, cash processing, and accounting technician work. 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 across multiple appropriations. Determines the general ledger accounts, journals, and subsidiary accounts affected, and the debit and credit entries to be made and summarizes transactions and prepares control documents or other documents reflecting the entries to be made. Incumbent has technical responsibility for the maintenance, auditing, and reconciliation of the general and subsidiary ledger accounts, for the preparation of accurate and timely reports, and for the control of funds. Determines the nature of errors and make adjustments in the correct appropriation to a variety of interrelated accounts and research, interprets, and verifies which appropriation and general ledger accounts a document and subsequent accounting transactions will affect; establishes routines for input of these transactions. Assigns transactions that will have the proper accounting effect and documents financial transactions to assure a proper audit trail. Reviews pending items and ensures that follow-up action is taken on all items pending for excessive periods of time. Prepares reconciliations of the general ledger to subsidiary accounts, accruals, adjusting journal entries, accounting reports and special reports. Reconciles accounting systems output using subsidiary records, both manual and automated, to ensure the accuracy of input and maintains control of receipts and disbursements. Maintains control of funds obligated and funds expended and analyzes general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy of reports and analyzes documents for accuracy and authorization. Receives and analyzes various types of documents to determine propriety, validity, budget, expenditure limitation, completeness, and correctness of accounting data. Researches, interprets, and verifies which appropriation and general ledger accounts a document and subsequent accounting transactions will affect; establishes routines for input of these transactions. Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm (Subject to change based on the needs of the Agency) Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

Qualifications

For this Accounting Technician, GS-6 position, possess at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-5) in the federal service that has given me the particular knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform the duties of an Accounting Technician. Specialized experience is using of diverse accounting, budget, purchase card or other financial regulations, operations, and procedures governing a wide variety of related transactions to resolve nonstandard transactions; processing of procurement transactions, accounting codes, general ledger accounts, cost accounts and procedures for establishing and/or liquidating obligations, accounts payable and accrued services payable. OR For this Accounting Technician, GS-7 position, possess at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-6) in the federal service that has given me the particular knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform the duties of an Accounting Technician. Specialized experience is using of diverse accounting, budget, purchase card or other financial regulations, operations, and procedures governing a wide variety of related transactions to resolve nonstandard transactions; processing of procurement transactions, accounting codes, general ledger accounts, cost accounts and procedures for establishing and/or liquidating obligations, accounts payable and accrued services payable; using various accounting systems and computer systems to resolve problems relating to obligations, collections, disbursements, or other actions involving complicated adjustments. You will be rated on the following Competencies as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: AccountingCommunicationsComputer SkillsProblem SolvingReading Comprehension IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. 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. 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; 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. Physical Requirements: The work is principally sedentary, in a highly automated environment. It is usually accomplished while seated at a desk or table. Some work may require walking in an office or warehouse setting. Work may also require walking and standing in conjunction with travel to and attendance at meetings and conferences. Incumbent may be required to carry small file boxes into storage, lift a cash box, carry light items or drive a motor vehicle. Typical safety precautions, such as pulling file drawers, dropping equipment, etc., are to be observed. Electrical safety precautions must be observed in working around computers. 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/.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address John L McClellan Memorial Veterans' Hospital 4300 West Seventh Street Little Rock, AR 72205 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]