Accountant

Accountant

Department: Department of Transportation

Location(s): Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Salary Range: $62660 - $97132 Per Year

Job Summary: The incumbent serves as an Accountant responsible for ensuring specific modal administrations receive professional accounting and financial reporting services. Accounting operations are maintained and monitored in accordance with current accounting policies and standards prescribed by government regulations. Incumbent utilizes knowledge of Federal Accounting Standard Advisory Board (FASAB), Treasury Financial Management (TFM), and OMB Circulars A-136 and A-11 in performing position duties.

Major Duties:

• Performs a combination of routine and multiple and varying assignments under the general direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional. Acts as an individual contributor and/or member of a team for projects/programs within a defined area of responsibility. Applies experience and detailed knowledge to plan and conduct functional activities for projects and programs. Helps develop and recommend approaches to address current and anticipated problems and issues. Analyzes and reconciles transactional data within the financial accounting system and external source systems to ensure proper accounting flow and financial reporting. May prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports on a national level, which are submitted directly to DOT, OMB and OFM. Resolves problems relating to all aspects of accounting by adhering to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. (GAAP) and other guidance received from Treasury, OMB, and OFM. May analyze and reconcile general ledger accounts for accurate reporting involving the resolution of problems relating to all aspects of accounting i.e. based on the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and guidance received from Treasury, OMB, and OFM. Must interpret regulations and adapt regulations to meet reporting requirements and the various system limitations. Provides explanation to management, team lead and others reviewing the statements concerning the complex data contained in the reports. Identifies and analyzes accounting problems or new requirements, which occur in the ongoing processing of data to the accounting system. Helps provide requirements for processing complicated financial transactions which relate to all aspects of the general ledger accounts. Plans and organizes the necessary steps or methods used to report financial information needed for the monthly, quarterly, and annual statements. Identifies methods to improve costs, quality and timeliness of organizational activities through business process reengineering. Demonstrates some independence in planning time and using assigned resources to accomplish tasks or small projects. Contacts are primarily internal to the organizational unit, major subdivision, or LOB/SO with a manager and other employees to share information, provide data and/or written analyses, and/or explain the statuses of assignments. Depending on the specialty, may have frequent contacts with customers and other external parties on routine matters such as gathering information, explaining regulations, and discussing the customers' situations. Some contacts include employees in the DOT Operational administrations, other ESC customers, policy officials, managers, and professionals, as well as the same level of contact with personnel in other Government agencies such as Treasury, OMB, OPM, and GSA. Established policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments, but allow some discretion for employee to select the most appropriate approach(es). Typically receives guidance on selecting approaches from a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional. Refers problems and work issues to a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional when guidelines are not available or applicable. Work typically is reviewed frequently during assignments and at completion to ensure timeliness, policy compliance, and alignment with the requirements of projects and/or other work activities. Work activities typically support and may be vital to the success of projects and/or activities for one or more organizational units, major subdivisions, and/or LOB's/SO's.

Qualifications: BASIC REQUIREMENTS: Degree: accounting; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting. The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law. (The term "accounting" means "accounting and/or auditing" in this standard. Similarly, "accountant" should be interpreted, generally, as "accountant and/or auditor.") OR COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: At least 4 years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge. The applicant's background must also include one of the following: 1) Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate types and quality. This can include up to 6 hours of business law; 2) A certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor, obtained through written examination; or 3) Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing, e.g., 15 semester hours, but that does not fully satisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement as stated above, provided that (a) the applicant has successfully worked at the full-performance level in accounting, auditing, or a related field, e.g., valuation engineering or financial institution examining; (b) a panel of at least two higher level professional accountants or auditors has determined that the applicant has demonstrated a good knowledge of accounting and of related and underlying fields that equals in breadth, depth, currency, and level of advancement that which is normally associated with successful completion of the 4-year course of study described above; and (c) except for literal nonconformance to the requirement of 24 semester hours in accounting, the applicant's education, training, and experience fully meet the specified requirements. IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE BASIC REQUIREMENT you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of Specialized Experience equivalent to the FV-F (FG/GS 5-9) level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE includes: examining, analyzing, and interpreting accounting data; identifying, analyzing and resolving a range of accounting problems; performing research and preparing special reports on financial data that may be requested by management; identifying, gathering, and analyzing accounting data; preparing accounting and financial reports for use by others; analyzing and reconciling reports to reflect an organizations financial activities and status of funds; designing, developing, examining and interpreting accounting data, statements and reports for managements use. Applicants should include specialized experience within their resume. Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

How to Apply: Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluation process. This assessment aims to evaluate the competencies and qualifications essential for the position. You must apply online to receive consideration. Your application must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close Date for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associated with FAA registers, your application must be submitted at the time a referral list is created in order to receive consideration for positions associated with a register. RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION. Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following information: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualifications and include job title, employer name, start/end dates, number of hours worked per week. Education, certification or licensure: If required, education should include school/institution name, completion date, degree type and GPA. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information and failure to provide ALL of this information may result in a finding of ineligible. You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded information again when applying for future vacancies.

Application Deadline: 2026-05-20