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Accounting Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 43 days ago
Hybrid Battle Creek, MI $45K – $59K Apply by Aug 11, 2026 Accounting Technician ESTJESTPISFPISTP Trades
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The Battle Creek VA Medical Center is recruiting for a Accounting Technician. The Accounting Technician will function under the Fiscal Service.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to: Creates and posts complicated and often unusual accounting transactions.
- →Performs extensive analysis and reconciliations of accounts, records, and reports.
- →Audits account balances for accuracy and processes necessary correcting and adjusting entries.
- →Establishes records, maintains documentation, performs monthly reconciliations, and provides timely responses to frequent inquiries for all accounts receivables.
- →Processes vouchers for payment, to include vendorization, obligation, vouchering, manual posting and reconciliation to obligation documents, and payment coding activities in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.
- →Recommends and implements accounting procedures and methods that ensure maximum accuracy, compliance, and timeliness of accounting data and efficiency of accounting personnel.
- →Assists in the planning, coordinating and completion of travel profiles, plans, and expense reports for employees and/or patients.
- →Reviews the documents for proper authorization and ensures compliance with established regulations.
- →Keeps abreast of all changes to travel regulations as indicated in directives, publications, manuals, and policies to have correct information when advising travelers and to ensure the validity of travel documents.
- →Uses MS Office Excel to display data, create tables, graphs and spreadsheets, MS word for documents, Power Point, and MS Outlook.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Position Description/PD#: Accounting Technician/PD81035A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 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 or 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 trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓As a general rule, education is not creditable above GS-5 for most positions covered by this standard; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position.
- ✓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.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 09266a7f-8f95-4c36-9467-0404ed566cbe
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