This position is located at the Financial Services Center within the Chief Accounting Office (CAO), Integrated Financial and Acquisitions Management System (iFAMS) service. These duties involve planning, designing, analyzing, documenting, testing, implementing, integrating, maintaining, or modifying computer systems or software. The accountant develops or maintains application programs software or operating systems software.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/13/2025 AND You may qualify based on your education/experience as described below. A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part ofyour qualifications on education. Transcripts must show the applicant's name and name of the college, university, school, or institution to determine accreditation. If basing qualifications on a degree earned, then transcripts must show the date the degree was conferred. Individual Occupational Requirements: This position includes an Individual Occupation Requirement. Individual Occupational Requirements are requirements that must be met, in addition to the specialized experience and/or education requirement. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. Evidence of the Individual Occupational Requirement must be reflected in your application materials (resume/transcript). The Individual Occupational Requirements for this position are: Degree: accounting; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting. The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law. (The term "accounting" means "accounting and/or auditing" in this standard. Similarly, "accountant" should be interpreted, generally, as "accountant and/or auditor.") OR Combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge. The applicant's background must also include one of the following: Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality. This can include up to 6 hours of business law; A certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor, obtained through written examination; or Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing, e.g., 15 semester hours, but that does not fully satisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement of paragraph A, provided that (a) the applicant has successfully worked at the full-performance level in accounting, auditing, or a related field, e.g., valuation engineering or financial institution examining; (b) a panel of at least two higher level professional accountants or auditors has determined that the applicant has demonstrated a good knowledge of accounting and of related and underlying fields that equals in breadth, depth, currency, and level of advancement that which is normally associated with successful completion of the 4-year course of study described in paragraph A; and (c) except for literal nonconformance to the requirement of 24 semester hours in accounting, the applicant's education, training, and experience fully meet the specified requirements. AND Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as experience performing financial and accounting analysis; participating in planning and/or development of accounting and financial systems improvements; developing accounting procedures and resolving accounting system problems. This experience MUST be evident in your resume to receive consideration. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Principles of Accounting Financial Analysis Compliance Communication 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. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/alph-ndx.asp.

Education

There is an educational requirement as stated in the Individual Occupational Requirements for the GS-13 level.

There is no educational substitution for the GS-13 level.

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. Transcripts must show the applicant's name and name of the college, university, school, or institution to determine accreditation. If basing qualifications on a degree earned, then transcripts must show the date the degree was conferred.

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 DAS Finance 1615 Woodward St Austin, TX 78722 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]