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Staff Accountant
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
Incumbent is an Accountant at the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus, OH. The medical system is comprised of one hospital campus, and four Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs). The position is aligned in the Accounting Section of the Fiscal Service. Fiscal Service performs professional and technical accounting work and provides advisory financial services that affect a major regional healthcare presence.
What You'll Do
- →Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: Reconciling financial reports; taking corrective action on financial system issues or reporting errors.
- →Providing systems analysis, advice, and design regarding Financial Management and Accounting systems used by VA.
- →Assisting Healthcare System customers with various construction accounting inquiries.
- →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.
- →Provides technical expertise to accounting staff, as well as an adviser to higher management throughout the facility on service line activities.
- →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.
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.
- ✓Reminder: 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.
Personality Fit
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Job ID: 87b3396b-8087-4777-bca1-ba60beaa9a2c
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