Accounting Technician

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 48,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seeks a professional to maintain and report financial accounting data, including accounts, ledgers, journals, and registers. The role also involves reconciling financial statements and processing payments, invoices, and payroll data.

Applicants must meet all requirements by 11/16/2026, with Time-In-Grade considerations for current federal employees and previous roles. Knowledge of VA financial systems and audits is valued.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-06.
• Experience with accounting principles, personnel and accounting integrated data systems, and financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and report financial accounting data across ledgers, journals, registers and other records.
• Perform reconciliations of various financial statements and documents.
• Process transactions for payment of invoices and expense vouchers and payroll data.

Skills

Accounting principles

Financial systems

Audits

GAAP

Tools

IFCAP

FMS

Job description

The position is responsible for performing work involving the maintenance and reporting of financial accounting data. This includes maintenance of appropriate accounts, ledgers, journals, registers, and other financial records, reconciliations of various financial statements and documents, processing of various transactions for payment of invoices and expense vouchers and processing of payroll data.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/16/2026. 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 and/or education 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: knowledge of accounting principles, personnel and accounting integrated data system, accounting and procurement IFCAP, or financial management system FMS and other VHA and financial systems, performing comprehensive audits, analysis, evaluations, reviewing records to determine accuracy of costing, timeliness of reconciliations and appropriateness of purchases, preparing written reports on the results of audits, reviews and evaluations. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. 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/.