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Accounting Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Accounting Technician provides administrative and accounting functions by processing, researching, and reporting on financial obligation and expenditure transactions and accounts receivable.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to: Accounting Processing and Reporting Vouchering and payment processing using the Invoice Payment Processing System (IPPS) to ensure invoices are uploaded timely and that payments are both timely and proper.
- →Ensure all processing rejects are resubmitted within 24 hours of identification, up to 72 hours with explanation and supervisory approval.
- →Verify the accepted document listing (ADL) daily against supporting documentation to ensure correct payees and amounts.
- →Process inquiries from vendors and representatives from other departments in the medical center, researching payment records and providing timely information and/or corrections as necessary.
- →Receive obligation and payment documents for certification as to availability of funds, including specific criteria such as appropriation, fiscal year, programs, and limits.
- →Utilize an extremely complex interrelated system of fund control, cost, general ledger, and allotment accounting, with responsibility for making determinations on each document processed.
- →Prepare and verify numerous types of FMS code sheets which generate general ledger entries for various transactions.
- →Classify and process complex transfer of expenditures between facilities including travel advances and salary costs.
- →Review documents, reports, and/or applications for omissions and inconsistencies and ensures data is complete and accurate or refers to appropriate area for completion.
- →Accounting Reconciliation Reconcile subsidiary records to FMS reports generated on a daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis depending on the cadence of the reports.
- →Perform variety of duties in relation to maintaining controlling accounts against the subsidiary records, such as general post funds, personal funds of patients, suspense fund accounts, employee travel advances, and inventory accounts.
- →Perform other reconciliations and/or projects to ensure integrity of the general ledger.
- →Maintain records and prepare analysis and interpretation of various statements of financial condition used within the Accounting Section.
- →Prepare required FMS transactions (JV, ET, EW, etc.) for corrective transactions to generate accurate data for adjustments to assigned fund control points.
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 dentification 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, 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.
- ✓Transcripts must be official or unofficial college transcripts.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 1c759051-d835-45b1-b5e8-b44bfa695f0d
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