Accountant

**Duties**:
**Duties may include but are not limited to**:

- Responsible for interpreting and adhering to fiscal law, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures pertinent to accounting matters.
- Maintains accounts receivable records to ensure aging is up to date, credits and collections applied, uncollectible amounts are accounted for, and miscellaneous differences are cleared.
- Prepares analytical and ratio analyses for accounts receivable.
- Provides professional accounting services in a computerized, integrated double entry accrual accounting system in support of the Medical Center.
- Process a wide variety of accounting transactions and prepares responses to accounting inquiries.
- Reviews purchase orders, contracts, travel orders and similar documents for obligation against appropriated funds.
- Assists in areas of training and cross training for office personnel, control point /IPPS users, etc..
- Must possess an extensive knowledge of VISTA, IPPS, FCM, Snapweb, FRS, FASPAC and Microsoft office.
- Maintains responsibility for performing account reconciliations, audits and regular reviews to ensure the integrity of the accounting data within the computerized systems.
- Maintains the Fixed Asset Equipment accounts, prepares Journal Vouchers, and Standard Vouchers for documents input into the Financial Management System (FMS).
- Performs all phases of the Non-Recurring Maintenance (NRM) for Construction appropriations and the integrated fund, distribution, control point activity, accounting and procurements.
- Apportions his/her time reviewing existing systems and workflow procedures in order to identify discrepancies or opportunities for system enhancements and analyzing systems requirement and designs of VA's Financial Management and Accounting Systems.
- Monitors the activity in the Purchase Card Program ensuring accuracy, costing and appropriateness of data transmitted to general ledger and corrects discrepancies and rejects.
- Responsible for witnessing the Agent Cashier bank deposit for accuracy. Performs various duties to ensure continuity of accounting functions.

**Work Schedule**: Monday-Friday; 8:00a.m. to 4:30p.m.

**Compressed/Flexible**:Available (May be offered after three months)

**Virtual**:This is a virtual position.

**Position Description Title/PD#: Accountant/**PD671-02487A

**Relocation/Recruitment Incentives**:Not Authorized

**Permanent Change of Station (PCS)**:Not Authorized

**Financial Disclosure Report**:Not required

**Physical Requirements**: The work is sedentary. Some work may require movement between offices, hospitals, warehouses, and similar areas for meetings and to conduct work. Work may also require walking/standing, in conjunctions with travel to and attendance at meetings and/or conferences away from the work site. Incumbent may carry and lift light items weighing less than 15 pounds.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Subject to a background/suitability investigation
- May serve a probationary period
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

**Qualifications**:
**To qualify for this position,** applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
- **Basic Individual Occupational Requirements**:
**Degree**: accounting; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting. The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law. (**TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED**)
- **OR**
**Combination of education and experience**:at least 4 years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge. The applicant's background must also include one of the following:

- **1. **Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality. This can include up to 6 hours of business law; (**TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED**)
- **2**. A certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor, obtained through written examination; **OR**
**3. **Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing, e.g., 15 semester hours, but that does not fully satisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement of paragraph A, provided that(a) the applicant has successfully worked at the full-performance level in accounting, auditing, or a related field, e.g., valuation engineering or financial institution examining;(b) a panel of at least two higher level professional accountants or auditors has determined that the applicant has demonstrated a good knowledge of accounting and of related and underlying fields that equals in breadth, depth, currency, and level of advancement that which is normally associated with successful comple