What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accountant position at US Department of Veterans Affairs?
Overview
Employee will serve as an Accountant within Centralized Financial Service located at the Mid-Atlantic Veterans Health Care Network in Roanoke, Virginia. The purpose of this position is to perform professional accounting work that requires application of accounting theories, concepts, principles, and standards to the financial activities of governmental, quasi-governmental, or private sector organizations.
Duties
***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION***
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Maintains general ledger control accounts, and subsidiary records for medical care, administration and medical facilities appropriations, research, general post and suspense account funds for all serviced medical centers.
- Examines a variety of financial statements and documents for completeness, internal accuracy and conformance with uniform accounting classifications and other accounting requirements.
- Analyzes a variety of accounts and transactions.
- Reconciles reports and financial data, pointing out inconsistencies or errors.
- Reviews obligations by verifying fund control balances.
- Proposes required modifications to serving stations based on review and analysis.
- Validates construction costing and processes expensing transactions to prevent overstatements of the general ledger accounts.
- Uses multiple accounting systems to post payments and prepare progress reports, electronic running balance reports and monthly work in process reconciliation reports.
- Performs other related duties as necessary.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree (or higher) (Transcript Required) OR Combination of education and experience (Transcript and Details of experience Required)
- One year of specialized experience including basic activities related to validating, maintaining, or processing accounting data or financial transactions OR Superior Academic Achievement (Transcript Required).
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $49,025.00 - $63,733.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Relocation assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: In person
Salary : $49,025 - $63,733
