Financial Accounts Technician
What you'd do
The Financial Accounts Technician position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6) at the Salisbury VA Health Care System (SVAHCS) - Finance Service, Salisbury, NC.
Major duties
The Financial Accounts Technician serves as the Financial Administration Technician responsible for performing accounting, budget, and travel transactions in a consolidated transactional processing site. The position requires knowledge and proficiency in the following areas: Accounting, Budget, and Employee Travel. Veterans' Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VISTA) Department of Veteran Affairs Financial Management System (FMS) Invoice Payment Processing System (IPPS) Human Resources Processing System (HR Smart) Finance Service Center (FSC) customer support ticketing system VA Time and Attendance System (VATAS) including VATAS reporting and ticketing system Concur VA Employee Travel System Accounting Support Examines, verifies, and maintains financial accounts and accounting data. Classify accounting transactions including the verification of the accuracy and completeness of the accounting data. Reviews and classify many types of financial transactions involving the operation of the Medical Center including journalizing corrective actions for erroneous conditions. Receives and analyzes various types of documents to determine propriety, validity, budget, expenditure limitation, completeness, and correctness of account data. Obligates a wide range of documents for supplies and services after determining availability of funds and verifying correct appropriation. Determines proper cost centers, Budget Object Codes (BOC), appropriations and fund control points to be entered into the computerized cost accounting system. The cost accounting systems consists of numerous cost centers, BOCs, appropriations, and over 100 fund control points. Ensures that documents are posted for Financial Management System (FMS) input. Monitors and makes input to current vendor file so that vendors are paid promptly under the FMS system. Record cash receipts within FMS received from Agent Cashier, completes Agent Cashier replenishment, prepares and records vendor payment documents within FMS. Reviews cancelled or rejected payment and recodes payment within FMS. Prepares and creates bills of collection for overpayments or duplicate payments tovendors. Budget Oversight Performs a variety of budgetary functions to support budget formulation, execution, and review of assigned budget activities of the Medical Center. Provides information and guidance on procedures, forms, and documentation required to support budget estimates and coordinates the timely submission of budget estimates by each component and core subcomponents within the program. Reviews, compiles, verifies, and summarizes data involving salaries, expenses, and object class and line-item information. Determines the percentage difference of amounts requested by comparison against established budgetary ceilings and prior year expenditures. Reviews estimates to assure that amounts requested are within established guidelines. Consolidates budget estimates and prepares all forms and required documents for review and funding authority. Performs tasks involving budget execution by compiling resource data from various financial management reports. Tracks funds distribution, reconciling commitments/obligations and re-allocating organizational funds as directed. Monitors all component and core program costs and prepares reports projecting use of available resources. Employee Travel Responsible for reviewing, auditing, and providing technical guidance in the operation of Employee Travel to ensure Travel Regulations followed for Travel Authorizations within Concur. Ensures that proper costing structures is entered to track cost accurately within the difference appropriations. Tracks Donated and Foreign Travel that is reported to VACO. Provides technical assistance and guidance in completing travel vouchers for employee reimbursement travel costs regarding mandated policies. Provides training to Concur users regarding creating and amending travel authorizations and vouchers. Process reimbursement vouchers for travel per diem, and local travel after travel has been performed. Responsible for assuring all claims are processed and submitted in accordance with existing VA Regulations in a timely manner. Provides advice and technical expertise to employees and top management in all aspects of travel. Audits travel obligations and payments that have rejected in FMS and processes adjustments in FMS to clear those rejects. Performs back-up time and attendance record keeping duties for the office and back-up for Agent Cashier. Performs other related duties as listed in position description. Work Schedule: Full time, 8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday Telework: No Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Financial Accounts Technician/PD02110A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/07/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-06 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled . Specialized experience includes but not limited to the following: Performing a variety of budgetary functions to support budget formulation, execution, and review of assigned budget activities; providing information and guidance on procedures, forms, and documentation required to support budget estimates and coordinates the timely submission of budget estimates by each component and core subcomponents; determining the percentage difference of amounts requested by comparison against established budgetary ceilings and prior year expenditures; Examining, verifying, and maintaining financial accounts and accounting data; classifying accounting transactions including the verification of the accuracy and completeness of the accounting data. Reviewing, auditing, and providing technical guidance in the operation of Employee Travel to ensure Travel Regulations followed for Travel Authorizations and other related Financial Accounts Technician duties. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.
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