Accounting Technician

About the role

This developmental position composes a career ladder structure to the Full Performance Level of Accounting Technician, GS-0525-06. The position is located in the Finance Office, Accounting Section, at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. The work of this position is the same as the full performance level position, but is performed under close supervision and guidance.

Responsibilities

• Serves in a developmental capacity at the GS-05 level, performing clerical, assistant, or technician level work in support of a budget, accounting, auditing, fiscal and financial management function.
• Performs budget administration support, financial systems support, cash processing, and accounting technician work.
• Examines, verifies, and maintains financial accounts and accounting data and classifies accounting transactions including the verification of the accuracy and completeness of the accounting data across multiple appropriations.
• Receives and analyzes various types of documents to determine propriety, validity, budget, expenditure limitation, completeness and correctness of accounting data.
• Verifies which appropriation and general ledger accounts a document and subsequent accounting transactions will affect; establishes routines for input of these transactions. Assigns transactions that will have the proper accounting effect.
• Audits or processes obligations, payments, adjustments, travel requests, travel vouchers, cost transfers, purchase card transactions, VRQ's (vendor change requests), accruals, deposits, bills of collection, Personal Funds of Patients (PFOP) postings, offsets, reconciliations, reviews, ad hoc reports, etc.
• Assists with reviews of outstanding undelivered orders and accounts payable to determine appropriate follow up action. Correspondence is prepared to respective services.
• Maintains control of receipts, disbursements, and logs. Maintains control of funds obligated and funds expended.

Requirements

The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment. A pre-placement physical examination is not required.

Qualifications

• To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/16/2026.
• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-4 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.
• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have 4 years above high school.
• Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond High School.