Job Summary

The incumbent serves as an Accounting Technician in Fiscal Services at the Miami VA Healthcare System. The Accounting Technician is responsible for maintaining general ledger accounts and subsidiary records for medical care appropriations, general fund receipts, compensated work therapy, patient funds, general post funds and suspense account funds at the Medical Center.

Job Description

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/30/2026. 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: Perform a full range of clerical tasks and assignments involving diversified accounts and records. Reviews a variety of tasks and transactions to determine appropriate action. Summarizing and preparing financial/accounting reports. Experience reconciling general ledgers to subsidiary accounts, accruals, adjusting journal entries, maintaining control of receipts and disbursements and of funds expended. Utilizing complex computer systems affecting appropriations, funds, general ledger and cost to analyze errors and reconciliation listings pertaining to input and output and to trace documents through their audit trail. 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/.