The Supervisory Systems Accountant of the Systems Accounting Division provides extensive thought and leadership in overseeing the development, deployment, and operations of VBAs extensive portfolio of accounting and reporting information technology systems. The incumbent performs a wide variety of administrative and high-level duties related to financial management, financial information systems development, and implementation of accounting and reporting business processes and technology.

Duties

Specific duties include: Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as they are applied and/or integrated into an automated financial system. Demonstrate ability to apply, analyze, interpret and implement accounting and fiscal systems policy, procedures, reports, legislation, and regulations to solve or recommend solutions to a variety of issues found related to managing a complex financial organization. Demonstrate ability to evaluate and test automated financial systems to ensure accounting functionality is implemented as designed. Ability to communicate orally with management, co-workers, and other personnel. Ability to communicate in writing with management, co-workers, and other personnel. Ability to serve as a team leader (plan, organize, review) the work activities of peers, provide leadership, motivate. Ability to manage projects of short- or long-term duration. Ability to provide administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the unit. Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is a Virtual position. Employee is expected to report to the nearest VBA Facility based on telework agreement to any of the locations listed in the announcement. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Systems Accountant;41534-0 Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• [INCLUDE IF POSITION IS SUPERVISORY] Selectees are required to service a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:01/19/2024. 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. To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). 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 also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50's and/or General Adjustment SF-50's as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13 level. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-14 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: To qualify for this position at the GS-14 level, applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level and demonstrate the specialized experience as described for the GS-13 level at an expert level. In addition, the applicant is required to interpret the intent of broad VA policy, regulatory statements, and legislation affecting the work of the programs and Presidential executive directives to ensure efficacy in the execution and implementation of VBA's financial management systems. Guides regularly referenced include but are not limited to: OMB circulars, regulations, directives, and bulletins, Department and VBA accounting and fiscal policies, directives, and procedures, Congressional Acts, appropriation acts and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation legislation impacting veterans' benefits, and regulations published by the Treasury Department, Comptroller General decisions and other accounting precedents that may affect VBA's programs. The applicant is expected to use professional knowledge and creativity to solve various technical problems. A high degree of initiative, judgment and originality is exercised in the selection, research, interpretation and application of broad guidelines and principles in the accounting and reporting for all VBA programs. Volunteer Experience: 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. Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week. Physical Requirements: Work is primarily sedentary but involves use of a personal computer so a degree of manual dexterity and visual acuity sufficient to utilize these tools is required. Some physical effort is required in that incumbent lifts and carries reference books, working papers and similar items to and from meetings. A moderate amount of standing and walking is required in getting to and from meeting places away from the worksite. No special physical demands are required. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Contacts

• Address VBA Human Resources Center - Central Office 810 Vermont Ave NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: Lauranetta Hyman
• Phone: 410-230-4400
• Email: [email protected]