Accounting Technician

This position is open to current, permanent federal employees only.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply.
• Time-in-Grade for GS-6: You must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05 level in the federal service.
• Time-in-Grade for GS-7: You must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06 level in the federal service.
• Specialized Experience GS-6/7: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade, including knowledge of accounting, budget, or financial regulations; assembling and maintaining complex fiscal transactions; reconciling errors; and using automated accounting systems.
• Examples of specialized experience include processing obligations, expenditures, cost transfers, and reconciling subsidiary ledgers to general ledgers.
• Your resume must clearly show job title, duties, month/year start/end dates, and hours per week for each position.
• Part-time experience is credited based on actual hours worked.
• Volunteer work, including through National Service programs, is qualifying experience.
• Education cannot substitute for experience at these grade levels.
• Former federal employees applying for reinstatement or under VEOA must also meet time-in-grade.

Maintain control accounts and subsidiary accounts for obligations, accrued expenditures, disbursements, appropriation refunds, reimbursable orders, earnings, collections, and cost transfers.

• Process accounting transactions including expenditure vouchers, inter-fund bills, travel orders, and training orders.
• Reconcile subsidiary ledgers to general ledgers for multiple accounts.
• Provide assistance and training to fund control point contacts on accounting procedures.
• Use the beneficiary travel application to assist veterans with travel payment questions.
• Input veteran information into the Direct Express Card program for electronic funds transfer of beneficiary travel pay.
• Validate, monitor, and control accounting transactions and records.
• Advise supervisor of unusual training needs for fund control point contacts.

You must be a U.S. Citizen.

• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Subject to a background/security investigation.
• Must complete an online onboarding process and provide acceptable identification (REAL ID compliant after May 7, 2025).
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is required for all VA Health Care Personnel.
• Must serve a 1-year probationary period.
• A pre-placement physical examination is not required.
• The work is primarily sedentary with no special physical requirements.

Complete federal benefits package including health insurance, retirement, and paid leave.

• Annual leave accrual rate based on years of service (4, 6, or 8 hours per pay period).
• VA may credit non-federal experience or active duty military service for annual leave accrual.
• Access to the full range of federal employee benefits.

This announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

• Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, VA cannot request criminal history before a tentative job offer.
• VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible under Schedule A.
• Veterans' Preference: Claim 5-point (TP) or 10-point (CP/CPS/XP) preference in the questionnaire and provide supporting documentation.
• If you are currently on active duty and expect to be discharged within 120 days, submit documentation reflecting dates and character of service.
• The position is not telework eligible and is not remote.
• Contact Jose Pena at 404-321-6111 X121640 or [email protected] for questions.
• The address for the hiring office is Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, One Freedom Way, Augusta, GA 30901.

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care to over 9 million veterans each year. The Augusta VA Health Care System, part of VISN 7, serves veterans in Georgia and South Carolina with medical centers and community-based outpatient clinics. This Accounting Technician position is within the VISN 7 Consolidated Accounting Office, which centralizes financial management functions to improve efficiency and accuracy. Working here means supporting the mission to honor America's veterans by providing high-quality health care and administrative services. Veterans Health Administration, Augusta VA Health Care System is named as the hiring organisation for the Accounting Technician post.