Budget and Financial Technician

Budget and Financial Technician

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Hampton, Virginia

Salary Range: $46084 - $66574 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is located at the Hampton VA Medical Center, Hampton, VA, within the Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6) Fiscal Service. The purpose of this position is to perform budget, accounting, and employee travel transactions in a consolidated transactional processing site.

Major Duties:

• Duties Include, but are not limited to: Budget Oversight Independently performs a variety of budgetary functions to support budget formulation, execution and review of assigned budget activities of the Medical Center. Provides information and guidance on procedures, forms, and documentation required to support budget estimates and coordinates the timely submission of budget estimates by each component and core subcomponents within the program. Reviews, compiles, verifies, and summarizes data involving salaries, expenses, and object class and line-item information. Determines the percentage difference of amounts requested by comparison against established budgetary ceilings and prior year expenditures. Reviews estimates to assure that amounts requested are within established guidelines. Consolidates budget estimates and prepares all forms and required documents for review and funding authority. Independently performs tasks involving budget execution by compiling resource data from various financial management reports. Develops methods for automating administrative reports, considering the interrelationship of reports and multiple uses of the data, e.g., portions of the data used for reports on funds and obligations, training, travel, etc., which can be used for recurring and non-recurring planning and budget reports. Accounting Support Percent Incumbent examines, verifies, and maintains financial accounts and accounting data. Classifies accounting transactions including the verification of the accuracy and completeness of the accounting data. Reviews and classifies many types of financial transactions involving the operation of the Medical Center including journalizing corrective actions for erroneous conditions. Receives and analyzes various types of documents to determine propriety, validity, budget, expenditure limitation, completeness and correctness of account data. Provides technical assistance by trouble-shooting program failures and problems in a timely manner via telephone or direct interaction with program participants and management officials, providing direction and solutions for problem areas. I Employee Travel Percent Reviews spreadsheets of funds sent for travel reimbursement to ensure reimbursements are received. Responsible for preparing and entering bills of collections for travel overpayments. Audits open travel obligations for completeness and submits decreases for travel obligations that need to be closed. Serves as a Concur administrator (employee travel processing system) to reconcile all travel programs within the system for Medical Center utilization. Researches and resolves outstanding travel vouchers. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Work Schedule: Full Time; 7:30-4:00pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Budget and Financial Technician/PD02920A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/18/2026. 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-06 position, you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. For a GS-07 position, you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. 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. Selective Placement Factor: A Selective Placement Factor is used to rate applications for this announcement. Applicants who do not meet the Selective Placement Factor will be rated as not qualified for the announcement. Such experience should reflect in your resume. Do you have experience working with an automated accounting and/or financial management system such as a point of sale (POS), banking system, and/or business software? Do you have experience using business math skills to perform financial transactions such as processing cash receipts/ refunds, cost adjustments, inventory accountability, and/ or tracking expenditures? You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: GS-06: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. For the GS-6 grade level, you must demonstrate a level of competence equivalent to the GS-5 grade level. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: A demonstrated ability to use a number of established procedures and specific guidelines in the form of agency policies and procedures, Federal codes and manuals, specific related regulations, precedent actions, and processing manuals are readily available for doing the work and are clearly applicable to most transactions.??????? GS-07: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. For the GS-7 grade level, you must demonstrate a level of competence equivalent to the GS-6 grade level. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: A demonstrated ability to serve as the Financial Administration Technician responsible for Performing accounting, budget, and employee travel transactions in a consolidated transactional processing site; experience using business math skills to perform financial transactions such as processing cash receipts/refunds, cost adjustments, inventory accountability, and/or tracking expenditures; experience working with an automated accounting and/or financial management system such as a point of sale (POS), banking system, and/or business software. The position requires knowledge and proficiency in the following areas: Accounting, Budget, and Employee Travel. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and Management Database Management Systems Financial Management Technical Competence Physical Requirements: The position works primarily in the office and the work is sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. 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/.

How to Apply: Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online application, to include the initial online questionnaire and submission of the required documentation specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To preview the application questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12952511. The application process is as follows: To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date, 05/18/2026. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside at least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. NOTE: Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status: https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit

Application Deadline: 2026-05-18