The Accounting Technician is responsible for performing all duties required in maintaining a complex double entry commercial type accounting system integrated with governmental type accounting for the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System (CTVHCS), including Temple and Waco, Integrated Care Facilities (ICFs), the Austin Outpatient Clinic, the Veterans Outreach Center, and the various Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC).

Duties

Major Duties include, but not limited to: Train station employees on the use of Fed Traveler and travel regulations in group settings and on a one-on-one basis as requested to ensure that employees have an understanding of the process before travel is initiated. Conduct staff training on the Travel Card Program. He/she is responsible for establishing new accounts for employees in the Travel Card Contractor's system including accounting information. Trains participants on proper use of travel card and serves as technical expert. Ensures travel card holders receive travel card training in accordance with regulations. Processes changes and maintains existing accounts. Retrieves and cancels cards based on misuse or separation of the cardholder from employment. Reviews and follows up on program activity to ensure card is appropriately used and card balances are paid timely by employee. Compiles information and prepares reports as needed. Makes required entries on obligations, receiving reports, contracts, GBL's, travel orders/expense reports, and various other procurement documents for obligation, and input which affects liquidations against undelivered orders and accounts payables. Processes payments to vendors to include tracking system payments, which requires knowledge of accounting entries and their effect on the General Ledger and how they affect all financial records. Assigns and/or verifies proper appropriation and limitation, fund control point, cost center, budget object code, accounting classification code (ACC) to ensure overall expenditure controls are maintained in IFCAP and FMS. Receives canteen and stock supply fund commitment copies and receiving reports and maintains a current outstanding order file. Incumbent processes all dietetic and canteen payments. Examines and reconciles accounts to confirm the information transmitted is properly reflected at the Financial Services Center (FSC). Determines transactions arc properly processed and that information in FMS concurs with the running balance in IFCAP. Identifies errors, makes corrections, verifies adjustments, and recommends procedures to prevent errors in the future. Examines, verifies, and maintains financial accounts and accounting data; classifies accounting transactions including the verification of the accuracy and completeness of the accounting data prior to processing electronic obligations, travel orders, travel expense reports, receiving reports, receivables, and other accounting transactions in the IFCAP system. Prepares journal vouchers to record income accounts, expenditure transfers, and other miscellaneous general ledger transactions as required. The adjustment type documents are prepared using appropriate codes and are annotated to highlight proper data to be entered into the correct general ledger computer file. Verifies and processes Imprest Fund Reimbursements, Direct Disbursements and Cash Receipt Transactions to establish draft payments and offsets for all fund control points. Reconciles Undelivered Orders, Advances, Accounts Payable, fund control changes, pending commitment copies to appropriate subsidiaries, et cetera. He/she determines if transactions are properly processed and that the totals match hard copy documents. Analyzes and reviews reports to assure they are in balance and in proper format. Identifies errors, takes corrective action to bring the reports and listings in balance, verifies corrections, and recommends changes. Ensures follow-up messages are maintained in Accounting Shared Folder for 889B and ARUDO. Follow-up must be made at a minimum of every 30 days for aged items over 90 days. Prepares and submits recurring payments in FMS. Maintains tickler file for cross reference to ensure payments are made appropriately and timely. Conducts on line computer activities with direct access to Austin to research and answer various inquiries from employees, vendors, Logistics Management Service and veterans. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. Telework available for highly qualified applicants. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Accounting Technician/PD079600 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/19/2023. 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-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. 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 as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-06 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Provide answers to customer service inquires (in person, over the phone, through email and LEAF) to ensure the requester receives a correct response (verbally and/or in writing) in a timely manner; Perform actions to resolve problems using procedures and regulations to ensure the solution is appropriate and in compliance; Interpret regulations, instructions, and guidelines in order to determine their applicability to a situation; Identify the nature of a problem, error, issue, or inquiry; Review and explain corrective action(s) required to come to a comprehensive resolution; Maintain appropriate security of sensitive data from unauthorized access to ensure compliance with privacy laws and regulations; Use independent judgment and organizational skills to establish work priorities, meet deadlines, and accomplish assigned tasks. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical ThinkingCommunicationCustomer ServiceSelf-Management 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 sedentary. Some work may require movement between offices, hospitals, warehouses, and similar areas for meetings and to conduct work. Work may also require walking/standing, in conjunctions with travel to and attendance at meetings and/or conferences away from the work site. Incumbent may carry and lift light items weighing less than 15 pounds. 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

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address VA Central Texas Health Care System 1901 Veterans Memorial Drive Temple, TX 76504 US
• Name: VISN 17 SSU USAS Group
• Email: [email protected]