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Accountant
Immediate Office of the Assistant Secretary for Management · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent serves as an Accountant in the Office of Business Oversight (OBO), providing leadership and professional expertise in internal controls over financial reporting, operations, and financial systems. The position is responsible for planning, conducting, and evaluating internal control reviews and risk-based assessments in accordance with federal internal control frameworks, including OMB Circular A-123, Appendix A.
What You'll Do
- →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.
- →The initial application review cut-off for this job announcement is 50 applications.
- →The first 50 applications received will be considered first.
- →Applications received after the initial cut-off number (50 applications) may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management.
- →If management requests additional certificates, applicants will continue to be reviewed in groups of 50 in the order they applied.
- →Note: Submitting multiple applications will change the order in which your application is reviewed.
- →This announcement is non bargaining unit.
- →Major Duties: Monitor and analyze financial data and reports to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting standards.
- →Reconcile accounts, research transactions, and resolve discrepancies to support financial statements and management reports.
- →Support, plan, or lead internal control reviews of financial reporting, operations, or systems, including documenting findings and test results under federal frameworks, including OMB Circular A-123, Appendix A.
- →Identify risks, inefficiencies, or control weaknesses and recommend corrective actions.
- →Prepare documentation and analyses, including narratives, flowcharts, working papers, and testing results.
- →Advise management on internal control requirements, compliance issues, and best practices in financial management.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process.
- ✓In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment.
- ✓The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
- ✓Physical Requirements: Work is primarily sedentary, with some walking, standing, bending, and carrying of lightweight items.
- ✓Some travel may be required.
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period (OR INSERT "2-year trial period") during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period (OR INSERT "trial period"), your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Benefits
- ★VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies.
- ★This position may be authorized for telework.
- ★Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
- ★Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee.
- ★VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service.
- ★This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave.
- ★Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
Personality Fit
Job ID: a6952315-2e4b-45c0-972a-e1ae929628e5
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