This position is organizationally assigned to the Fiscal Service. The Financial Accounts Technician will report directly to the Supervisory Financial Analyst within Fiscal Service. The incumbent provides direct support and technical assistance to the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Chief of Fiscal Service as well as the Supervisory Financial Analyst and is key to the successful daily operations of the Travel Department in the Fiscal Service.

Duties

Duties include: Monitoring and reporting on the usage of the travel cards. Ensuring tickets with the lowest available fare are ticketed within 24 hours. Ensuring flight/train tickets are available within five business days of travel. Ensuring approved travel authorities get an Itinerary and tickets. Coordinating with VA travel center and/or airline to complete ticketing for flights/train not ticketed in the e-system, sometimes working with both to ensure tickets are issued. Reviews costing of each ticket/travel authority to ensure appropriate cost information; if non­ facility cost information used, work with the VA travel center and/or other facility to get tickets issued. Provides guidance to employees on the use of electronic systems to prepare travel authorizations and travel expense reports, serves as the Site Administrator of the most current electronic travel system; Serves as the primary point of contact between the employee and the VA Finance Service Center, Concur Travel Program, the Government Travel Card contractor, and VACO travel. Reviews all temporary duty travel plans ensuring all estimated expenses and information Is appropriately accounted for and Is as accurate as possible on travel plans through the most current electronic travel system. Assists employees in developing itineraries based on information obtained Assists the employee in utilizing the available mechanisms to obtain the most advantageous transportation mode. Ensures every travel plan has received appropriate reviews and has been approved by a member of the appropriate leadership team. Ensure flights are booked and tickets available when needed. Serves as a Payroll Technician. Ensures proper application of pay regulations and consistency of input in the actions of appointments, promotions, pay adjustments, reassignments, awards, and separations. Makes complex pay adjustment which may involve transfers between pay systems differing in pay, leave, and benefit entitlements and which may be retroactive over an extended period of time. Research back pay claims, which may involve different fiscal years, pay levels, and duty stations; compute interest payment entitlement. Audit transactions received from Human and Learning Resources Service; determine impact on employee pay records and the necessity for payroll action. Research individual leave records on employees that separate from the agency, transferring to other agencies or terminating. Processes the full range of payroll actions in an automated system for employees appointed under the different personnel systems, which have unique pay accounts. Build and modify programs, prepare/adjust data for input as well as manipulate and analyze data. Developing spreadsheets, understanding, and creating data base formulas, as well as analyzing data and preparing reports. Utilizes a government and personal computer and software packages including VISTA, VATAS, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, Access and PowerPoint to produce a variety of documents, reports, and graph presentations. Procuring, analyzing, and formatting data from VSSC, DFAS, VATAS, Concur, and Thin Client as well as various spreadsheets, and other areas as needed and enters in appropriate areas of the VISN 10 SharePoint for FQAM. Assists the Supervisor Financial Analyst and Assistant Financial Officer with creating and managing Fiscal projects as it pertains to FQAM and employee satisfaction. Responsible for database management; data entry, creating and printing reports, changing forms as necessary, and printing statistical reports. Development of Excel spreadsheets and graphs. Creates reports to Management for all recommendations based on FOAM audits and tracks actions to completion. Incumbent will work with multiple Fiscal Sections such as Payroll, Travel, Budget, Accounting and Auditor to update programs, conduct activities, and report Findings to the Supervisory Financial Analyst Serves as the TMS Coordinator for the Fiscal staff and assists other services with TMS issues as they arise. Serves as an alternate timekeeping resource, aiding in the daily recording of time and attendance for Fiscal staff. Work Schedule: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Monday - Friday Compressed/Flexible: Available 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#: Financial Accounts Tech/PD92487A Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/05/2024. 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-7 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-6. 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. Applicants must be eligible under the VA Interchange Agreement, having served continuously for at least one year in the other merit system under this interchange agreement. For more information regarding the VA Interchange Agreement please visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-authorities/competitive-hiring/. 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-6 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Working knowledge of rules, regulations and applicable laws, both federal and agency as they relate to Official Government Travel and Payroll. Experience in analyzing and detecting trends and problems affecting overall operations of accounting, Travel and Payroll. Tracing transactions entered and preparing worksheets or adjustments; and utilizing accounting system software package applications and computer systems to perform a variety of accounting duties; experience working with payroll, travel and accounting procedures related to appropriation funding, allotments, obligations, and reimbursements, and the ability to analyze these relationships; experience working with a variety of transactions and documents; experience working with EXCEL. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Arithmetic/Mathematical ReasoningComputer SkillsCustomer Service (Clerical/Technical) 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: This work is sedentary 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address Ann Arbor VA Medical Center 2215 Fuller Road Ann Arbor, MI 48105 US
• Name: Tiffani Battle
• Phone: (512) 592-8461
• Email: [email protected]