This position is located at the Charlie Norwood VAMC, within the Fiscal Service Department. He/she will apply conventional practices with a variety of accounting, budgeting, and financial management transactions.

Duties

The Accounting Technician for the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center Fiscal Service. The Accounting Technician maintains control accounts and subsidiary accounts and processes accounting transactions for a wide variety of functions including obligations, accrued expenditures, disbursements, appropriation refunds, reimbursable orders, earnings, collections, expenditure vouchers, cost transfers, rejected transactions, inter-fund bills, travel, training orders, and other accounts in connection with the general ledger. The duties described below are the full performance duties for the Accounting Technician. He/She will be expected to perform the listed functions as described below but not limited to. Major Duties: Provides assistance and training to fund control point contacts; recognizes and advises supervisor of unusual training needs for these contacts Utilizes the beneficiary travel application to adequately assist veterans with beneficiary travel payment questions and the U.S. Treasury application for the Direct Express Card program to input veteran's personal information into site to receive beneficiary travel pay via EFT draft. Validates, monitors, controls, and maintains accounting transactions and accounting records for multiple accounts Reconciles subsidiary ledgers to general ledgers for accounts having a variety of transactions. Performs either the Financial Management System (FMS) obligatory or payer function Researches discrepancies between ledgers and makes adjustments Participates in internal audits of Fiscal programs, vulnerability assessments, systematic internal reviews, quality assurance programs, safety inspections, control point audits, and may other program audits involving cost, obligation, and receiviable accounting systems Coordinates, reviews, audits and reconciles government travel, convenience check, purchase card, and other transactions. Maintains PFOP accounts, following all laws and regulations concerning account balances, veterans' benefits, certifications, documentation, etc. Classifies accounting transactions, maintains and reconciles accounts, close accounts, and prepares reports and statements, analyzes accounting data and examines accounts Reconciles detailed listings of outstanding transactions to general ledger accounts. Provide veteran access to their funds by managing and maintaining oversight of all Patient Fund Accounts Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Position Description/PD#: Accounting Technician/PD15182A and PD15183A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): 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, 04/15/2024. Basic Requirement: 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-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. 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 and/or education as described below: GS-6 Specialized Experience: You must have one (1) 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 GS-7 Specialized Experience: You must have one (1) 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: reviewing, and maintaining accounting, budgets or other fiscal transactions, reconciling transactions, researching and/or investigating problems that require reconciling errors, resolving nonstandard transactions, complaints, or discrepancies, and providing advice on regulations. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Accounting OperationsAuditingCustomer ServiceFinancial Systems 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 usually performed in an office setting.The work is principally sedentary. There is occasional lifting of computer-generated schedules and files. 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 Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center One Freedom Way Augusta, GA 30901 US
• Name: Kanda Ware
• Phone: 205-933-8101 X336516
• Email: [email protected]