Accounting Technician, Veterans Health Administration, Augusta VA Health Care System Job

Salary: $45,409 - $65,599 per year.

This role is unseal to present, permanent federal employees only.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to register.
• Time-in-Grade for GS-6: You must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05 level in the federal solution.
• Time-in-Grade for GS-7: You must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06 level in the federal offering.
• Specialized Expertise GS-6/7: One year of specialized background equivalent to the next lower grade, such as expertise of accounting, budget, or financial regulations. Assembling and keeping up involved fiscal transactions; reconciling errors; and using automated accounting systems.
• Cases of specialized know-how include processing obligations, expenditures, expense transfers, and reconciling subsidiary ledgers to general ledgers.
• Your resume must obviously display role title, tasks, month/year launch/close dates, and hours per week for each role.
• Part-time experience is credited located on actual hours worked.
• Volunteer function, covering through National Solution programs, is qualifying expertise.
• Education can’t substitute for experience at these grade levels.
• Former federal employees putting in for reinstatement or under VEOA must also meet time-in-grade.

Keep up control accounts and subsidiary accounts for obligations, accrued expenditures, disbursements, appropriation refunds, reimbursable orders, earnings, collections, and charge transfers.

• Process accounting transactions such as expenditure vouchers, inter-fund bills, travel orders, and training orders.
• Reconcile subsidiary ledgers to general ledgers for multiple accounts.
• Give assistance and training to fund control aspect contacts on accounting procedures.
• Employ the beneficiary travel submission to assist veterans with travel payment questions.
• Input veteran data into the Frank Express Card plan for electronic funds transfer of beneficiary travel cover.
• Validate, monitor, and control accounting transactions and records.
• Advise supervisor of odd training demands for fund control detail contacts.

You must be a U.S. Citizen.

• Selective Offering Registration is called for for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Subject to a background/security investigation.
• Must wrap up an online onboarding workflow and supply acceptable identification (REAL ID compliant after May 7, 2025).
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination scheme is needed for all VA Health Care Personnel.
• Must serve a 1-year probationary period.
• A pre-placement physical examination isn’t called for.
• The perform is primarily sedentary with no distinct physical needs.

Finalize federal upsides package covering health insurance, retirement, and paid depart.

• Annual exit accrual rate set on years of solution (4, 6, or 8 hours per settle period).
• VA may credit non-federal experience or active duty military service for annual depart accrual.
• Access to the complete span of federal employee gains.

Your submission will be evaluated located on your resume, supporting documents, and responses to the online questionnaire and USA Take on Assessments.

• Competencies assessed involve Arithmetic/Mathematical Reasoning, Client Offering, Decision Making, Flexibility, Integrity/Honesty, Interpersonal Skills, Reading Comprehension, Self-Management, and Teamwork.
• You must finish any needed USA Recruit Assessments within the given deadline; set aside at least 3 hours.
• Your resume must be verified; overstating qualifications may consequence in removal from consideration.
• Referred you may be contacted for an meeting and may require to send in additional job-related info.
• Pre-employment reference reviews will be conducted.

Resume (must be 2 pages or less early September 27, 2025; PDF recommended).

• SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action (most latest, plus an additional SF-50 if the most current is less than one year aged to demonstrate time-in-grade).
• Transcript (if using education to qualify, though not standard for this grade).
• DD-214 or other separation documents (if claiming Veterans' Preference).
• SF-15 and supporting documentation (if claiming 10-point preference).
• Disability Letter (Schedule A) if registering under disability hiring authority.
• CTAP/ICTAP documentation (if relevant).
• Span letter (optional but accepted).

Evaluate the packed USAJOBS announcement and all instructions before beginning.

• Log in to your USAJOBS account (or produce one) and click Put in Online.
• Wrap up the online submission questionnaire and attach your resume and all called for documents (SF-50, transcripts, etc.).
• Hand in your submission by 11:59 PM ET on the closing date, 07/24/2026.
• If needed, finalize the USA Take on Assessments using the one-of-a-kind link offered after submission; fix aside at least 3 hours.

This announcement may be employed to fill additional vacancies.

• Under the Fair Shot to Compete Act, VA can’t request criminal history before a tentative position present.
• VA encourages persons with disabilities to register, such as those eligible under Schedule A.
• Veterans' Preference: Claim 5-point (TP) or 10-point (CP/CPS/XP) preference in the questionnaire and offer supporting documentation.
• If you’re currently on active responsibility and expect to be discharged within 120 days, send in documentation reflecting dates and character of solution.
• The role isn’t telework eligible and isn’t 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, piece 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 enhance efficiency and accuracy. Operating here means supporting the mission to honor America's veterans by providing high-quality health care and administrative offerings. Veterans Health Administration, Augusta VA Health Care System is named as the hiring organization for the Accounting Technician post.

Veterans Health Administration, Augusta VA Health Care System employment opportunities