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Accounting Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 9 days ago
On-site San Diego, CA $58K – $75K Apply by Jul 13, 2026 Accounting Technician ESTJESTPISFPISTP Trades
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This position will perform the technical work of collecting, recording, and maintenance of general ledger accounts and subsidiary records in support of accountants, auditors, and financial officers, and will ensure that VHA, VISN22 and Medical Center financial indicators, goals and monitors are met by following applicable financial guidance and protocols.
What You'll Do
- →Knowledge of traditional accounting practices including accrual, obligations and costs methods.
- →Identifies rules, principles or relationships that explain facts, data or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
- →Examines, verifies, and maintains financial accounts and accounting data and classifies accounting transactions including the verification of the accuracy and completeness of the accounting data across multiple appropriations.
- →Determines the general ledger accounts, journals, and subsidiary accounts affected, and the debit and credit entries to be made.
- →Summarizes transactions and prepares control documents or other documents reflecting the entries to be made.
- →Incumbent has technical responsibility for the maintenance, auditing, and reconciliation of the general and subsidiary ledger accounts, for the preparation of accurate and timely reports, and for the control of funds.
- →Determines the nature of errors and make adjustments in the correct appropriation to a variety of interrelated accounts.
- →Researches, interprets, and verifies which appropriation and general ledger accounts a document and subsequent accounting transactions will affect; establishes routines for input of these transactions.
- →Assigns transactions that will have the proper accounting effect.
- →Documents financial transactions to assure a proper audit trail.
- →Reviews pending items and ensures that follow-up action is taken on all items pending for excessive periods of time.
- →Prepares reconciliations of the general ledger to subsidiary accounts, accruals, adjusting journal entries, accounting reports and special reports.
- →Reconciles accounting systems output using subsidiary records, both manual and automated, to ensure the accuracy of input.
- →Maintains control of receipts and disbursements.
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.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
- ✓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/.
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