Budget Technician

Budget Technician

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Muskogee, Oklahoma

Salary Range: $50460 - $65599 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is located within the Finance Service of the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System, and is responsible for highly specialized budgetary functions, data analysis, and related activities pertaining to Community Care program functions.

Major Duties:

• Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Reviews and checks the accuracy and adequacy of budget justification data submitted in support of budget estimates or requests for allotments. Performs activities of financial management as Budget Analyst for Community Care, including the development of data and long-term budget formulation. Gathers, compares, and correlates financial data concerning current and future programs and activities with projected costs of operations. Performs cost effectiveness studies using various fiscal service records and feeder reports. Makes strategic recommendations regarding make vs. buy decisions to ensure local VAMC is purchasing or providing care in a cost-effective manner. Develops and maintains daily a tracking mechanism to track all community care admissions in an online format that is accessible to individuals across the facility. Develops procedures and systems for establishing, operating, and assessing the effectiveness of administrative control operating programs and the accomplishment, evaluation, and monitoring of audits and inspections. Coordinates the VA Community Care budget and accounting information with Fiscal Service records, printouts, etc. to reconcile budget information and resolve questions in accordance with established procedures. Compiles records including current and past expenditures for the purpose of planning future budgets and preparing current estimates. Analyzes and evaluates on a quantitative basis, the effectiveness of the VA Community Care program or operations in meeting established goals and objectives. Creates and updates monthly and quarterly report for patients with appeals and forwards to the Director of Community Care. Completes overtime report for the Director of Community Care and FTEE report from Fiscal Service. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: This position may be authorized for ad-hoc telework only. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Budget Technician/PD119200 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, 05/11/2026. 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-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. Preferred Experience: Strong budgeting and/or accounting experience as well as knowledge of Veterans Affairs (VA) computer systems and processes is preferred but not required. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-06 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Thorough knowledge of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursement systems required in order to understand and apply VA Community Care payment methodologies; knowledge and understanding of the Relative Value Reimbursement System, Outpatient Prospective Payment System, Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Reasonable and Customary charges payment methodology; practical knowledge of a wide range of well-established and commonly applied budget management principles, concepts, and methodologies requiring the application of some judgment and analysis to provide budget management services or resolve problems associated with budget management systems and processes; knowledge of established budget management systems in weighing the impact of variables such as cost, existing policies and procedures, data processing requirements, and other issues that influence the course of action taken and ability to maintain budget control records; ability to search for and analyze information; trace sequences of budget management transactions to resolve questions; makes entries in fund control point systems; provide budget information, reports and services; and recommends actions to eliminate problems involved in delivering services to customers or in implementing policies; knowledge of system to manage FCP(s) and internal budgetary processes; knowledge of Medical Care Cost Fund (MCCF) billing, collections and accounts receivables practices in order to maximize revenue recapture through VA Community Care billing and cost containment of VA Community Care expenditures. Requires sufficient understanding of VA Community Care & Fiscal Service operations to enable necessary coordination and communication with them; skill in payment processing and vendorizing guidelines that are outlined in M-1 Part I, Chapter 18: the FBCS User Manual, VistA (or other software) Fee Basis User Manual and the Fee Basis Guidebook. 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/12947660. 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, 05/11/2026. 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: 2026-05-11