Cashier

Cashier

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Albuquerque, New Mexico

Salary Range: $45901 - $66311 Per Year

Job Summary: The incumbent is the Principal Cashier for the Healthcare System and performs general clerical work involving proper disbursement, collection of public and private funds, in accordance with regulations of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Treasury. The primary purpose of this position is clerical and technical work concerned with supporting accounting, budget, and other related financial management work.

Major Duties:

• Major duties include, but are not limited to: Performs work in support of a fiscal nature, such as liaison with outside resources and Department of Treasury for operating advances, regarding the status of payments, initiating internal fiscal controls for processing of receiving and disbursing documents, or inputting and maintaining financial data into an automated financial system. Establishing and maintaining a complex cashier function, which contributes to the effective service to our Veterans and the efficiency of Fiscal Service Operations. The incumbent, being responsible for transactions involving the disbursement and receipt of funds, must be knowledgeable in the structure of applicable appropriations, object classes, standardized accounts and und control points in order to ensure proper charges and credits. The incumbent, as Principal Cashier, is responsible to the Treasury Department for his/her work and that of all Alternate and Imprest Fund Cashiers. All cash transactions (payment & receipts) must comply with Treasury and banking regulations. Competence in governmental accounting policy and procedures is required to administer several appropriations and funds, balancing and reconciling the funds daily. Assists with studies of administrative practices, which cause payment complaints. Recommends management changes, which will reduce or eliminate justified complaints. Implements further studies necessary to clarify the problem. Takes appropriate independent action and provides follow-up of the issues to monitor the effectiveness of any program changes. Establishing, controlling and maintaining, as the central point, the specialized monetary systems utilized by the VA, including check drafts. Examines verifies and maintains financial accounts data and classifies accounting transactions including the verification of the accuracy and completeness of the accounting data. Determines the general ledger accounts, journals, and subsidiary accounts affected, and the debit and credit entries to be made. Employees work with systems development personnel to locate and resolve accounting transactions problems in the accounting system. Employee review, evaluate, and verify the range of accounting transactions to determine the adequacy of the system. Summarizes transactions and prepares control documents or other posting documents reflecting the entries to be made. Incumbent has technical responsibility for the maintenance, auditing, and reconciliation of the general and subsidiary ledger accounts for the preparation of accurate and timely reports, and for the control of funds. Employees examine accounts to resolve difficult reconciliations requiring analysis of adjustment and corrective entries in the account. They trace transactions entered and prepare worksheets to reflect the source of discrepancies, corrective action required to bring accounts into agreement. Determines the nature of errors and makes adjustments in the correct appropriation to a variety of interrelated accounts. Researches, interprets, and verifies which appropriation and general ledger accounts documents and subsequent accounting transactions. Establishes routines for input of these transactions. Prepares Reconciliation of the general ledger to subsidiary accounts, accruals, adjusting journal entries, accounting reports and special reports. Reconciles accounting systems output with input for accuracy. Maintains control of receipts and disbursements. Maintains control of funds obligated and funds expended. Ensures the timely preparation of all reports for Department of Treasury, Agency Headquarters and local management. Analyzes general edger accounts to ensure accurate reports. Analyzes documents for accuracy and authorization. Documents financial transactions to assure proper audit trail. Assigns transactions that will have the proper accounting affect. Reviews pending items and ensures that follow-up action is taken on all items pending for excessive periods of time. 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: Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Cashier/PD13831A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved 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, 05/12/2026. 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. For a GS-7 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-6. 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 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: Supporting accounting, budget and other related financial management work.. GS-7 Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-6 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Supporting accounting, budget and other related financial management work. Basic understanding of accounting and banking systems, policies and procedures in performing the examination, verification and maintenance of accounts and accounting data. 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/12952457. 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, 05/12/2026. 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: 2026-05-12