Accounting Technician

Job Description

Accounting Technician | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, located in Mountain View, CA. The VA Palo Alto Health Care System is dedicated to providing comprehensive healthcare services to veterans. This position plays a critical part within the Fiscal Service, ensuring the integrity and efficiency of financial operations by performing essential technical accounting and financial support functions for the health care system.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Mountain View, CA

• Team: Fiscal Service
• Mission: Responsible for performing a variety of technical accounting and financial support functions to maintain financial integrity.
• Tech Stack: Accounting software, automated systems

What You’ll Actually Do
• Support Operations: Perform technician-level work to support budget administration, financial systems, cash processing, and overarching accounting, auditing, fiscal, and financial management functions.
• Manage Transactions: Classify accounting transactions, determine appropriate debit and credit entries for general ledger accounts, journals, and subsidiary accounts, and summarize transactions for control documents.
• Maintain Records: Maintain, audit, and reconcile general and subsidiary ledger accounts, ensuring accuracy and completeness of data for the preparation of timely financial reports and effective control of funds. This includes preparing reconciliations, accruals, and adjusting journal entries.
• Analyze Documents: Receive and analyze various financial documents, such as purchase orders and requisitions, to determine their propriety, validity, budget adherence, expenditure limitation, completeness, and correctness of accounting data, making necessary corrections.
• Provide Guidance: Train and consult control point users and other customers throughout the Medical Center, offering expert advice and guidance concerning Fiscal and financial policies, procedures, and regulations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Early-Level career in accounting or financial support, demonstrating core domain knowledge in technical accounting and financial management principles.
• Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-6 grade level in Federal service, including collecting and verifying accounting data, examining and maintaining financial accounts, processing deposits, and using accounting software and automated systems to perform accounting-related duties.
• Skills: Verifying accounting data accuracy, maintaining financial accounts, processing financial deposits, utilizing accounting software, operating automated financial systems, classifying accounting transactions, and reconciling ledgers.