Financial Accounts Technician

Full Job Description

This position is organizationally aligned under the VISN 12 Great Lakes Finance Service (GLFS) and is located at the VA Medical Center Tomah, Wisconsin.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/06/2026.

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-6 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-5. 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: GS-6 Specialized Experience: : You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-5 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: communicating with all levels of staff both verbally and written.

Organizing, coordinating, and prioritizing many simultaneous work assignments. Skill in the operation of computers and office equipment.

General knowledge of associated standard operating procedures and local practices to apply regulations and precedent cases.

Knowledge of VA Time & Attendance regulations to maintain accurate time cards and initiate accurate personnel action forms.

Experience working with accounting theories, practices, methods and techniques, policies, functions and reports to accomplish a variety of financially related assignments.

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/.

Major Duties:

This Financial Accounts Technician position is located in the VISN 12 Great Lakes Finance Service (GLFS) at the Tomah VA Medical Center, Tomah, WI.

This position involves a combination of administrative support functions and technical support.

Major Duties: Responsible for managing day to day administrative operations such as telephone and visitor management, maintenance of an effective and organized filing system and recording of meeting minutes.

Manages the calendar of the Assistant Finance Officer and keeps track of electronic leave management and suspense tracking calendars.

Organizes meetings and prepares required documents for staff upon request. Coordinates supply orders for local finance department and facilities ordering with GLFS Purchase Card cardholders.

Serves as primary timekeeper for finance employees; serves as back-up timekeeper to other sites; prepares personnel actions and maintains time and leave records.

Serves as an alternate cashier performing the full scope of Teller duties; responsible for cash transactions and ensuring proper receipting and depositing of all remittance.

Examines daily audits to avoid delay in availability of funds; provides non-interest bearing banking service to patients.

Serves as back up to the Travel Coordinator; verifying vendor codes in FMS, running and formatting weekly and monthly reports, using e-travel system, and filing travel documents.

Performs a broad range of Finance duties to ensure coverage in any are of need for the office to support basic functions.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: This position is not authorized for telework. Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

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