Accounting Technician
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ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN
Army National Guard Units
Department of the Army
Location
Rancho Cordova, California
Salary
$61,945 - $80,525
per year
Type
Full Time
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GS-5 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $33,878 - $44,042
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience. Bachelor's degree.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves handling financial records, verifying transactions, and fixing accounting errors to keep the Army National Guard's books accurate and up-to-date.
You'll use computer systems to process payments, deposits, and adjustments while ensuring everything follows proper rules.
It's a good fit for someone detail-oriented with experience in basic accounting who enjoys solving financial puzzles in a structured government environment.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-07 level in accounting procedures
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy in verifying documents and data
- Proficiency in using automated financial systems for data entry, retrieval, and correction
- Ability to analyze and reconcile accounts, resolve discrepancies, and reconstruct inaccurate records
- Knowledge of accounting principles, policies, and regulations for fiscal issues
- Experience in planning, organizing, and coordinating work to solve complex financial problems
- Skills in researching, interpreting, and applying fiscal regulations and procedures
Full Job Description
This ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN position, is located in the US Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO) Comptroller Division, Accounting Services Branch and is part of the CA USPFO Army.
General Experience: Possess experience, education or training; involving arithmetic principles, attention to detail, and application of established procedures for recording and compiling data; Experience in sorting and verifying receipt of documents; recognizing or matching forms containing names, numbers, and codes; and establishing a filing system; Experience verifying accuracy and completeness of documents, maintaining or reconciling accounts and records; researching documents for discrepancies in debits and credit entries and taking necessary action in balancing accounts; and entering, deleting, and retrieving data utilizing an automated system; Experience validating accounting data, analyzing unusual trends for corrective action, maintaining and researching records, and preparing reports; Experience in correcting coding or other errors that result in computer generated rejects.
ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN, GS-0525-8: Must have at least one year of specialized experience, equivalent to at least the GS-07 level experience in: total accounting procedures; Experience planning, organizing, and coordinating work to resolve problems that occur; Analyzes and evaluates data to conduct fiscal reconciliations, reviews, and account adjustments; Resolves difficult or complex reconciliations of accounts; Reconstructs inaccurate accounts; Researches, interprets, and analyzes the application of regulations, policies, procedures and legal decisions to complex fiscal issues/problems; Uses automated systems to provide input to fiscal accounting databases.
Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies: Attention to Detail Concepts, Policies, and Principles of Accounting Financial Management Systems Fundamentals and Operations of Accounting Major Duties:
THIS IS A T32 EXCEPTED SERVICE, PERMANENT POSITION.
The primary purpose of the ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN, GS-0525-8, is to provide analysis, validation, processing, and correction of financial transactions and issues/discrepancies involving the full range of accounting services.
Incumbent uses a complete understanding of inter-related work systems across multiple functional areas and their interoperability to ensure the validity and accuracy of all obligations, disbursements, collections/deposits, and adjustments related to financial records.
May make additional selections within 90 days of eligible(s) issuance.
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