This position has a primary function as an Accounting Technician operating within a Fiscal Office in support of accounting operations of the Medical Center and its Community Based Outpatient Clinics with direct contact to Accountants, the Accounting Officer, Budget Officer, Chief Financial Officer and all other respective Program Managers and their offices.
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/11/2026. 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-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. 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 described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-06 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: bookkeeping of journals, ledgers, or data sets that must periodically be reconciled to other subsidiary systems; following up on items that are outstanding over a length of time in months and years. This experience must be supported by your resume to be creditable. Preferred Experience: Accounting training or experience strongly preferred 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: Sedentary work majority of time. Pulling and filing documents. Approximately eight hours per day spent at computer terminal. 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/.
Apply various accounting methods, policies, and procedures to classify accounting events with subsequent posting to subsidiary and primary systems of record. Maintain accounts in multiple systems used by Pharmacy, Central Fee Unit (CFU), Concur Government Edition (CGE), State Veterans Home, Medicare Surgical Rates, Agent Cashier Deposit/Receipts, Payroll, Budget, and Decision Support System (DSS) with review and verification of accuracy and completeness. Review and reconciliation include determination of appropriate debit/credit entries and validity of summary balances to be posted based on transaction entries being made each subsidiary system through validation in the Financial Management System. Adjustments, Journalizing of accounts, expense transfers are processed to align costing based on accounting data element changes, locally generated corrections, and policy changes to funding. Perform audit of invoices, create disbursements, calculate applicable interest and recognize discounts offered along with requests for obligations. Perform oversight of the procurement obligation phase through expensed as recorded to the Standard General Ledger (SGL) with certifying availability of funds, obligations, accruals/liabilities, and status of unliquidated obligations. Recurring review is conducted with coordination between Acquisitions, Contracting, Warehousing, and control point officials for receipt and acceptance processing with due follow-up performance. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, subject to change based on the needs of the Agency. Telework: This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Position Description/PD#: Accounting Technician/PD03128A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required