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Accountant
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Veterans Integrated Service Network 6 (VISN 6), at the Salisbury VA Medical Center (VAMC), in Salisbury, North Carolina, within the Accounting Section of the Fiscal Service. The incumbent is responsible for a wide variety of accounting functions, as well as, assisting with budget tracking and travel.
What You'll Do
- →Reviews a variety of transactions for completeness and accuracy.
- →Incumbent reviews and interprets all new and updated written policies affecting local accounting sound judgement when implementing local accounting related procedural changes.
- →Performs financial assistance including analyzing reports, reconciling out of balances, and answering standard accounting inquires for internal operating programs such as 1358 and Purchase Card regulations; running balance training; and cost center and budget object code guidance.
- →Programs include education, research, medical operation services, or general post ( voluntary) programs in direct support of the mission or objectives of the facility.
- →Updates local accounting procedures and resolves common technical problems for stand accounting transactions.
- →Monitor's and controls accounts by timely recording, balancing, and scrutinizing for inaccurate accounts.
- →Reconciles accounts with manual and computer subsidiary accounts.
- →Enters performance and reviews transactions within G-Invoicing system.
- →Analyzes and reviews station assigned reports to ensure that they are in balance, in proper format and the accounting data is valid and adheres to prescribed accounting principles.
- →Identifies and resolves common accounting transactions that create out-of-balance conditions in financial reports.
- →Tracks back through a series of transactions and erroneous adjustments to isolate the original error and correct it.
- →Prepares numerous monthly reconciliations of various appropriations within the limitations established by appropriation, allotment, apportionment work allowance, and purposes authorized by public law to ensure the FMS system's accounting reports are reflective of both the General ledger control accounts and subsidiary documentation.
- →Coordinating data with other services as required and providing technical assistance for common problems when needed.
- →Reconciliations include, but are not limited to: Bene Travel, OTC net; Compensated Work Therapy, Patient Funds, and US Bank reconciliations.
Requirements
- ✓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.
- ✓BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT:A.
- ✓Bachelor's degree (or higher) in 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.
- ✓(TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED) 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.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: a67c2e52-ac2a-4ea0-8156-df1c08cb8778
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