The position is located in the Finance Office, Accounting Section, at the Northern Indiana Healthcare System. The incumbent must have a thorough understanding of the Finance Office mission and functions. The incumbent performs a variety of accounting (payments, suspense and deposit processing, and vendorizing and accounts receivable), travel assistant duties, and agent cashier duties. The incumbent is required to work under minimal supervision.

Duties

The incumbent performs a variety of duties with payments of accounts in general ledger from FMS, VISTA, FASPAC and FBCS systems. Some of those payments for processing include non-VA Care and Care in the Community, standardized obligation offsets, travel rejects, cashier reimbursements, employee reimbursements, veteran payments for beneficiary travel, canteen payment for inpatients and all other disbursements as authorized by CFO and director. Duties include but not limited to: The incumbent liquidates receivables when collection are made or written off action is authorized. Through control accounts, maintains a balance of fund due the United States Government. The incumbent processes certificate of deposits which reflect deposits made by general receipts and patient funds. This involves analyzing numerous documents from which accounts receivable, advance payments, appropriation refunds, etc. have been recorded and have to be considered in preparing the proper accounting entries. The incumbent maintains and prepares monthly reconciliation and adjustment of accounts including accounts receivable, special deposits, suspense accounts and general ledger/cost accounting. The incumbent reconciles and follows up on undelivered orders and payables on a monthly basis. The incumbent posts and liquidates payments processed by Austin as listed on the Daily Process Listing. The incumbent analyzes and classifies the more complex accounting transactions which require research of guidelines and discussion with other services and/or VA facilities to obtain the facts and makes determination as to the applicable procedures and proper accounting entries. The incumbent's accounting duties includes responsible for receiving, maintaining, date stamping, assuring authenticity, validity, completeness, compliance of established procedures, and availability of funds on all obligation, receipt and payment documents utilizing various directives, handbooks, and manuals. The incumbent will make necessary adjustments to accurately complete transactions in appropriate timeframes. In addition, the incumbent assigns proper accounting entries for documents and computes discounts in order to assure proper computer input, proper obligation of funds, proper payment and charge to the proper accounts. The incumbent will examine, audit and vendorize all invoices received from vendors for correctness, certification and expeditious process for payment. The vouchers include, but are not limited to, routine invoices for commercial vendors, imprest fund transactions, cash disbursements, and bills of collection. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: Authorized 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. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Accounting Technician/PD000076 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, 10/27/2023. 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-6 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-5. 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: GS-6 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-5 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. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical ThinkingOrganizational StewardshipTechnical 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 mainly sedentary. There is some walking, bending, lifting and carrying of light objects. 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.


Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Northern Indiana HCS 1700 East 38th Street Marion, IN 46953 US
• Name: Andrea Bower
• Phone: 765-617-2998
• Email: [email protected]