Job opening: Accounting Technician NTE 1 Year MBE, MBP
Salary: $39 576 - 63 733 per year
Published at: Jul 15 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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Duties
WHAT IS THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (CFO)DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions
Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
The Chief Financial Officer, Deputy CFO, Senior ACFO Financial Management, ACFO Revenue Financial Accounting, Revenue Accounting Operations, Campus Accounting Department 2, Ogden RACS Unit 1.
The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.
Reviews complex accounting documents and transactions for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with IRS, Treasury, GAO and GSA regulations; processes transactions related to these accounting documents, computing changes to the automated financial system and determining whether transactions are legitimate and authorized; and codes or verifies coding of such documents to assure proper accounting classification.
Maintains proper controls to monitor and reconcile automated accounting system reports and ensures that all transactions utilized in the accounting system abide by standardized procedures or exception reports are prepared noting transactions that deviate from any standardized procedures.
Responsible for specific, ongoing programs that require special skills, i.e., balancing and reconciliation, coding, contract interpretation, and tax processing, etc.
Prepares or assists in the preparation of the more difficult financial reports.
Responsible for the reconciliation or assists in the reconciliation of the more difficult transactions to balances in the related control accounts; and identifies any discrepancies and initiates corrective action, including preparation of accounting code changes, payment corrections, or document reversals.
Qualifications
Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-5 LEVEL: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-04 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience with accounting procedures and techniques to classify accounting transactions, maintain and reconcile accounts; Experience with automated and manual processing procedures, existing accounting systems, standard accounting codes, classifications, terminology and relationships to process a limited range of work. Your experience should involve recognizing transactions, codes, forms, or adjustment entries and selecting and applying the appropriate procedure to specific transactions.
OR
EDUCATION: 4 years above high school.
OR
A combination or education and specialized experience equivalent to one year of specialized experience.
AND
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-6 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience with accounting procedures, techniques, terminology, and regulations to identify erroneous journal entries and perform extensive research to resolve account discrepancies and errors; Experience with automated accounting control system and manual procedures, extensive account structures and systems, the full range of accounting code classifications, subdivisions, associated codes, and documents to process extremely varied transaction. Experience should involve recognizing various standard transactions, codes or entries and selecting and applying the appropriate procedures to a specific transaction.
AND
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-07 Level: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: Experience using the full range of accounting procedures, techniques, terminology, and regulations to identify erroneous journal entries and perform extensive research to resolve account discrepancies and errors; Experience using automated accounting control system and manual procedures, extensive account structures and systems, the full range of accounting code classifications, subdivisions, associated codes, and documents to process extremely varied transactions. Experience should involve substantial research, complex reconciliation, balancing, and adjusting a wide variety of accounts and the ability to reconstruct audit trail to technical reporting requirements.
For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM's Qualifications Standards.
Education
A copy of your transcripts or equivalent documentation is required for positions with an education requirement, or if you are qualifying based on education or a combination of education and experience. An official transcript will be required if you are selected. If the position has specific education requirements and you currently hold, or have previously held, a position in the same job series with the IRS, there is no need to submit a transcript or equivalent at this time. Applicants are encouraged, but are not required, to submit an SF-50 documenting experience in a specific series.
A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to
Department of Education Accreditation page.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. Click
here (Section 3, Explanation of Terms) or
here for Foreign Education Credentialing instructions.
Contacts
- Address CFO - Deputy CFO
1111 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20224
US
- Name: (ERC) Employee Resource Center
- Phone: 866-743-5748
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