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Supervisory Accountant
Immediate Office of the Assistant Secretary for Management · Posted 14 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within the Finance Service of the Office of Management (OM), National Cemetary Administration (NCA), Department of Veterans Affairs. Within OM, the Finance Service ensures financial integrity, transparency, and accountability across all NCA programs, ranging from cemetery operations and maintenance to burial benefits, construction, grants, leases, recycling initiatives, and gifts and donations.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties: Directs and oversees financial accountability, accounting, and reporting operations, including financial statements, trial balances, general ledger activities, and financial reconciliations.
- →Conducts and oversees complex financial analyses to identify discrepancies, abnormal balances, trends, and financial risks and develops appropriate corrective actions.
- →Ensures accounting transactions and financial activities comply with Federal accounting standards, appropriations law, cost principles, internal controls, and applicable financial policies.
- →Develops, evaluates, and implements financial policies, procedures, internal controls, and financial management tools to improve the accuracy and reliability of financial data.
- →Oversees reconciliation between financial systems and supporting or ancillary systems and evaluates financial processes and system controls.
- →Uses financial analytics and data visualization tools, including advanced Excel modeling and Power BI, to conduct trend analysis, forecasting, and performance monitoring.
- →Provides administrative and technical supervision to professional accounting staff, including assigning and evaluating work, establishing performance standards, identifying training needs, and supporting employee development.
- →Provides expert advice and recommendations to senior leadership on complex accounting, financial accountability, audit, internal control, and financial systems matters.
- →Prepares and presents financial analyses, briefings, reports, and recommendations to support senior-level decision-making.
- →Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to resolve complex financial issues, ensure consistent application of financial policies, and improve financial operations.
- →Physical Requirements: The work is principally sedentary.
- →Work may also require walking and standing in conjunction with regular work and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site.
- →Some employees may carry light items.
- →No special physical effort or ability is required to do the work.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a one year probationary period or two 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 one year probationary period or two year trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Continued from Qualifications: .
- ✓Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.
- ✓Local Commuting Area: The local commuting area for this position is defined as a radius of 50 miles from Stafford, VA.
- ✓This includes all locations that fall within a 50-mile driving distance from 5105 Russell Road, Stafford, VA 22134.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Benefits
- ★VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies.
- ★This position may be authorized for telework.
- ★Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
- ★Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee.
- ★VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service.
- ★This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave.
- ★Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
Personality Fit
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