Accounting Technician – Department of Homeland Security Jobs

Position Summary:

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing technical guidance to lower graded Accounting Technician or train Accounting Clerks and Technicians in operating procedures, policies, and regulations.
• Establishing and maintaining control and subsidiary accounts for most or all types of classes which are inter-related, require extensive supporting schedules and analyses, involve extensive subdivisions with intermediate summary ledgers, and require frequent and varied adjustments, balancing and reconciling.
• Reviewing and analyzing reports/listings, classifies errors, takes corrective action to balance reports/listings, and verifies corrected copy, determines all transactions are properly processed and that total activity agrees with pre-determined control totals.
• Reviewing, analyzing, classifying, and reconciling transactions, and commitment and obligation documents, traces, researches, and resolves discrepancies, reconciles accounts and prepares trial balances or schedules.
• Reviewing unliquidated obligation and back-up files, may liquidate obligations when notified of receive of goods/services, may be required to reconcile accounts and adjust them to reflect outstanding balances.

Required Education & Experience:

• Knowledge of most accounting classifications and subdivisions to make classification determinations and process a wide variety of transactions.
• Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.
• Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
• Knowledge of procedures used to enter, modify, retrieve and delete accounting data/information in an automated system.
• Knowledge of extensive and diverse accounting regulations, operations, and procedures governing a wide variety of types of related transactions.
• A one year probationary period may be required.
• One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-5 level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience may include: Analyzing error listings, isolating sources of error, making corrective entries and reprocessing accounting transactions; computing transportation charges and discounts, and total amount for vouchers and initiating adjustments; reconciling listing of accounts payable with general ledger, researching discrepancies and initiating adjustment actions. OR at least 1/2 year of appropriate graduate level education in a field of study directly related to the work of the position to be filled; OR a combination of appropriate specialized experience and appropriate graduate level education that together meet the qualification requirements for the position to be filled.
• This position requires a Minimum Background Investigation (MBI).
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Knowledge of and ability to analyze the interrelationship of accounts that ae affected by varied transactions to monitor accounts.
• Knowledge of accounting procedures to review, clarify and code appropriation funding, allotments, obligations and disbursements.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.