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Accountant
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 8 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in the Fiscal Service at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center. The primary purpose of the position is to perform a range of accounting work in a developmental capacity. Upon meeting regulatory and performance requirements incumbent may be promoted non competitively to the target level of GS-11. *** Recruitment or relocation incentive may be paid to a Highly Qualified candidate.***
What You'll Do
- →Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: Serves in a developmental capacity at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center.
- →Accomplishes a prescribed agenda of formal/informal classroom and on-the-job training, rotational job assignments, and self-development.
- →Performs developmental assignments involving the review and processing of accounting documents.
- →Assists in maintaining, analyzing, and reconciling general ledgers and subsidiary ledgers.
- →Assists in preparing related reports and in initiating corrective actions.
- →Provides advice and assistance to technicians, analysts and clerical personnel on transactions requiring professional accounting determinations.
- →Maintains liaison with serviced activities, providing advice on availability of funds, reporting methods and account reconciliations.
- →Participates with higher grade accountants in furnishing assistance and advice to operating elements, recommending solutions to problems, and devising new or alternative procedures for accounting or related functions involving analysis of accounting operations.
- →Studies and charts the flow of accounting documents.
- →Observes and reports on prevailing practices concerning the treatment of selected transactions.
- →Analyzes current procedures and systems to determine if improvement or simplification is needed.
- →Studies, analyzes, and interprets manuals and other accounting regulations from higher authority and discusses their application with supervisor.
- →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.
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.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Physical Requirements: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment.
- ✓A pre-placement physical examination is not required.
- ✓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 identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary 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, 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.
- ✓Combinations of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience may be used to meet total experience requirements.
Personality Fit
Job ID: c4f46db3-32c0-40ad-b229-f0093c5d3828
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