Job Summary

This position is within the VISN 12 Great Lakes Fiscal Service (GLFS) and located at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI. The incumbent serves as an Accounting Technician and is organizationally aligned under the GLFS Accounting Section.

Job Description

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/21/2026. 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-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. 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: To qualify for this position at the GS-6 level, you must meet the following: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 grade level which provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of an Accounting Technician. Specialized experience includes but is not limited to: Experience working with accounting regulations, operations, and procedures to resolve transactions, discrepancies, or perform other work that requires authoritative procedural knowledge. Experience handling a variety of accounting and budget functional areas to research or investigate problems or errors that require reconciliation. Experience using automated systems to access, retrieve, and generate various transaction data and reports. Experience reviewing documents for missing or incompatible information. Using judgement to select the most appropriate guidelines, procedures, and approaches appropriate for the work being accomplished. Experience making recommendations or taking action based on regulations, documents, or issues. There is no educational substitution at this grade level. 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/.