Accounting Technician
What you'd do
This Accounting Technician position is located in Fiscal Service at the VA Bedford Healthcare System location. This position is a full-time at 40 hours per week.
Major duties
This position oversees the full lifecycle of financial and procurement transactions for the medical center, ensuring the accurate review, approval, and processing of requisitions, receiving reports, invoices, and obligations. It maintains compliance and data integrity across accounting and financial related systems by auditing documents, resolving rejects, and validating funding availability. Duties may include, but are not limited to: Applies knowledge of accounting principles, methods, procedures, and techniques. Conducts difficult and responsible analysis and make determinations within a complete accounting system. Validates transactions and performs research to resolve inconsistencies. Applies the interrelationship between appropriations and all subsidiary records and control accounts, interrelating of cost, general ledger, allotments and fund control accounting. Examines all accounts in order to analyze and detect trends and problems that affect the overall operations of accounting. Traces transactions entered and prepares worksheets or adjustments to reflect the source of discrepancies and corrective action required. Applies interrelationships of various accounting system software package applications and computer systems and contents to resolve problems of processed transactions. Examines the effects of transactions on existing records and existing accounts and protection of historical data. Applies related financial regulations and rulings covering diverse types of transactions to typically function as a technical authority for resolution of an extensive range of problems or issues. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 7:00am-3:30pm. Telework: AdHoc Telework may be authorized. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Accounting Technician/PD03098A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Notifications: This position is not in the Bargaining Unit position. Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees. Interchange Agreements with Other Merit System: Employees who occupy medical or medical-related positions and were appointed under 38 U.S.C. 4701(1) or (3) [formerly 38 U.S.C. 4104 (1) and (3)] must be serving in a full-time position without time limit and have served continuously for at least one year in this other merit system to be eligible to convert to the Title 5 System. Some exceptions to this rule may apply if you have previously acquired tenure under a Title 5 appointment. Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held. This position is covered by locality-based comparability pay.
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/03/2026. 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 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. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: understands accounting principles, methods, procedures, and techniques to conduct difficult and responsible analysis; examines all accounts in order to analyze and detect trends and problems that affect the overall operations of accounting; makes determinations within a complete accounting system to validate transactions and to perform research to resolve in consistencies; and, uses various accounting system software package applications and computer systems and contents to resolve problems of processed transactions. 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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