Position Summary:
This position is located in the Accounting Operations Division, Coast Guard Finance Center (FINCEN). As a Supervisory Accounting Technician, this position serves as a first line supervisor in an organization charged with payment of bills and maintaining accounting records.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responding to a wide variety of routine, unusual and complex questions generated from a large and diverse customer base.
- Supervising the maintenance of records/files/batches to substantiate, track, and/or reconciling inputted documents
- Planning and directing work through Lead Technicians, setting short-term priorities, balancing work between units, and assuring quality and quantity of work is maintained.
- Maintaining and aging accounts payable and accounts receivable;
- Processing payment vouchers and supporting documents;
- Applying experienced knowledge of accounting principles, appropriation law, procurement regulations and other regulatory guidance to the accounting/transaction document.
- Reconciling and interpreting complex data and data elements from computer screens, printouts, or manual reports to source records (electronic and/or paper copy) and makes complex adjustments as determined necessary.
- Applying accounting principles, appropriation law, and procurement regulations at work;
- Establishing priorities for projects/assignments;
- Monitoring accounting transactions, and performing examination, audits, interpretations for unusually, difficult and complex reconciliation.
Required Education & Experience:
- A one-year Supervisory Probationary Period may be required.
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Ability to research, analyze, interpret, examine and classify unusual and complex accounting, transactions/documents or special conditions/adjustments requiring thorough interpretation.
- Ability to apply supervisory skills.
- This position requires a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI).
- Performing examination, audits, interpretations for unusually, difficult and complex reconciliation requiring adjustments and corrective entries in the accounts ensuring that they were properly documented and reflected in the appropriate and related accounts.
- Knowledge of regulations, laws, policies, appropriations, DAFIS and various subsystems, accounting codes and data, general ledger accounts, accounting principles and techniques, auditing, and procedures.
- Knowledge and understanding of the entire accounting and interface systems processing cycles in order to trace accounting transactions/documents entered in some but not all related accounts and records.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.