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Lead Accounting Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 13 days ago
Hybrid Gainesville, FL $50K – $66K Apply by Sep 10, 2026 Accounting Technician ESTJESTPISFPISTP Trades
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Lead Accounting Technician is responsible for providing day-to-day technical leadership and coordination for accounting support functions that ensure accurate and timely processing, reconciliation, and reporting of financial transactions. Provides guidance to accounting technicians and clerical support staff on established procedures and internal controls, supports month-end and year-end close activities, and assists in maintaining audit readiness. Position reports to the Financial Service.
What You'll Do
- →Include but not limited to: Provides day-to-day leadership and coordination of accounting technician work for assigned accounting processes and shared-service support activities.
- →Distributes and balances work among employees based on priorities, deadlines, and workload complexity.
- →Operating in a multi-billion-dollar portfolio delivering professional federal accounting to ensure stewardship of appropriate funds are accurate and timely processing, policy-compliant financial reporting.
- →Prepares training materials, sets up and schedules training sessions, delivers or coordinates delivery of training to accounting staff and cross-functional customers.
- →Identifies required training areas based on observed errors, audit findings, policy changes, system updates, or performance trends.
- →Coordinates training needs with supervisor and subject matter expert to develop a training plan and schedule to ensure required staff receive timely instruction.
- →Supports the integrity of accounting records by verifying data entries.
- →Performs or leads reconciliations of selected accounts, subsidiary logs, and control reports, documents reconciliation steps and resolves or elevates variances.
- →Maintains audit-ready files for assigned processes, ensuring documentation is complete, traceable, and retained per records guidance.
- →Responds to internal data calls and routine audit/support requests by retrieving records, validating information, and providing timely, accurate responses consistent with established procedures.
- →Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Position Description/PD#: Lead Accounting Technician/PD06140A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized.
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: Work is primarily sedentary and performed in an office or approved telework setting.
- ✓You may occasionally lift or carry light items such as files, binders, or a laptop and may spend limited time walking or standing during coordination with staff or meetings.
- ✓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.
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Job ID: 685c3e13-becb-47f1-97cf-a9ccc65406ca
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