Accounting Technician

Federal Bureau of Prisons; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 54,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Bureau of Prisons in Rochester, MN seeks corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the qualification requirements: GL-06/07 education rules, and at least one year of specialized experience related to accounting, reconciliation of accounts, and maintaining financial records in an automated system.

Qualifications

• GL-06/07 requires one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade.
• Experience in accounting terminology and automated systems is valued.
• Experience reconciling accounts, preparing reports, and maintaining financial records.

Skills

Accounting terminology

Account reconciliation

Financial reporting

Ledger control

Discrepancy research

Transaction monitoring

Inter-fund accounting

Education

Graduate education related to the work

Job description

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities. To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements:

Education:

GL-06 and GL-07: As a general rule, education is not creditable above GL-05 for most positions covered by this standard; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position.

Experience:

GL-06 and GL-07: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are:

GL-06:

• Experience in using and understanding accounting terminology and account codes relating to an automated system.
• Experience in reconciling accounts; preparing reports or schedules reflecting the status of funds within each account. Locating and summarizing information from files and documents as required.
• Experience performing balancing, reconciling of detail and reporting and summary information within and between related accounts and records as necessary and creating correspondence to general questions related to financial information.
• Experience validating, monitoring, controlling, and maintaining accounting transactions and accounting records using a variety of procedures.
• Experience researching discrepancies between ledgers and making adjustments; and reconciling detailed listing of outstanding transactions to general ledger control accounts.

GL-07:

• Experience in validating, monitoring, controlling and maintaining transactions and accounting records for multiple accounts.
• Experience in maintaining control accounts and subsidiary accounts.
• Experience in processing accounting transactions for a wide variety of functions including obligations, accrued expenditures, disbursements, appropriation refunds, reimbursable orders, earnings, collections, expenditure vouchers, cost transfers, rejected transactions, inter-fund bills, and other accounts in connection with the general ledger.

Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.