The primary purpose of this position is to perform a variety of duties encompassing classifying accounting transactions; maintaining and reconciling accounts; closing accounts and preparing reports and statements; and analyzing accounting data; and examining accounts. The Accounting Technician performs accounting transactions that may include verifying the accuracy and completeness of the accounting data, determining the general ledger accounts, journals, and subsidiary accounts.

Duties

Balances and reconciles reports, statements, summaries and trial balances with supporting accounting data on daily/weekly/monthly/yearly basis constituting a complete reconciliation. Initiates corrective action to reconcile records. Receives and reviews a wide variety of obligation documents to include purchase orders, contracts, travel orders and similar documents for obligation against appropriated funds. Receives, controls, validates, records and applies accounting treatment throughout the accounting cycle, to a wide variety of accounting transactions including, obligations, accrued expenditures, disbursements, appropriation refunds, cost transfers, reimbursable orders, earnings, collections, expenditure vouchers, cost transfers, reject transactions, Inter-fund Bills (IFT's), transactions for others (TFO's) and transactions by others (TBO's). Maintains a marked up open record listing for assigned organizations for use in validating data entry accuracy. Advises Lead Accounting Technician or higher graded accountants of extraordinary or recurring problems. Coordinates the input and output accounting requirements with serviced program areas. Analyzes, codes, and processes all types of accounting transactions involving various types of funds insuring the accuracy and completeness of information provided in accordance with regulatory requirements. Coordinates with appropriate office on edit master file changes for Account Processing Codes, Customer Numbers, and Elements of Resource. Researches, analyzes and corrects all of the facility's accountability transaction edit errors on exception listings that pertain to assigned program directors. Other Duties as assigned. Work Schedule: 8am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Accounting Technician/PD01118A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: None Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): None Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/10/2025. 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: Specialized Experience: experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled? To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Applicants who have the 1 year of appropriate specialized experience, as indicated in the table, are not required by this standard to have general experience, education above the high school level, or any additional specialized experience to meet the minimum qualification requirements.OR, Education:High school graduation or the equivalent is creditable at the GS-2 level for the occupations listed where it is creditable at the GS-3 entry level. Successfully completed education above the high school level in any field for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite is creditable at grades GS-3 through GS-5 for all positions except Reporting Stenographer, GS-5. This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. One year of full-time academic study is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university, or at least 20 hours of classroom instruction per week for approximately 36 weeks in a business, secretarial, or technical school 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: None 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 Corporal Michael J Crescenz Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 3900 Woodland Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19104 US
• Name: Steven Holliday III
• Email: [email protected]