Financial Accounts Technician

Financial Accounts Technician

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Des Moines, Iowa

Salary Range: $45777 - $59510 Per Year

Job Summary: The Financial Accounts Technician position is located within the Finance Section of the VA Central Iowa Health Care System. This position supports all aspects of finance to Veterans Health Administration employees within the Health Care Systems.

Major Duties:

• Duties will include, but may not be limited to the following: Accounting Technical Support: 40% Responsible for vendor inquiries regarding status of payments. Research payment history, pending or completing obligation documents, and ordering records or receiving reports. Initiates miscellaneous tax form (1099) for vendor adjustments and handles vendor inquiries regarding the 1099's. Records collections from deposit/collection vouchers (SF215) and maintains a file of SF215 deposit tickets to reconcile with Federal Reserve Bank deposits each month. Analyzes vouchers, invoices, claims, and other requests or payment for goods and services. Reviews for accuracy, adequacy of the documentation, compliance with regulations, and the justification of the action. Examines the full range of requests for payment having a wide variety of complicating conditions. Carefully analyzes each voucher or invoice to determine propriety of payment to include required certifications by authorized officials, compliance with contract provisions, price agreements, and/or other directives. Review the appropriation to be charged and that expenditures made as specifically authorized. Coordinates and resolves discrepancies and/or problems. Responsible for all necessary action such as suspension of payment letter, handles the response from the vendor, necessary documentation for transmitting doubtful claims or reclaims as appropriate. Reviews, edits, and consolidates annual budget estimates. Edits narrative justifications and projected funding needs and helps ensure that data in requests are formally and accurately documented in forms, schedules, and reports. Identifies and analyzes trends in the receipt, obligation, or expenditure of funds to help ensure that objectives of the annual financial plan are being met on a timely basis and that funds are available and being properly and effectively used to support program objectives. Official Travel 20% Plans and carries the successive steps to complete Official Travel duties. Provides cost estimates, formulates the most convenient and economical travel arrangements, prepares itinerary, purchases airline tickets and issues travel authorizations. Ensures proper appropriation, cost center, budget object code, and budget fiscal year are recorded. Advises customers on conditions and requirements under which allowances are payable and provides information on ways to avoid excess cost or misuse of government funds. Budget Analysis: 30% Conducts analysis to develop required data and information reporting purposes and drafts brief factual administrative reports. Prepare documents needed to process budget estimates. Drafts reports that detail the purposes for which funds were obligated and expended. Performs analysis of budget requests, and compiles data to be used for forecasting obligations. Analyzes documents from administrative and clinical departments for proper authorization and adherence to regulations; proper fund control point (FCP), cost center, budget object class (BOC), and appropriation. Performs other duties as assigned: 10% Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00am - 3:30pm, Flexible Schedule Position Description/PD#: Financial Accounts Technician/PD23561A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/13/2026. 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. 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. 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-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically includes: familiarity with applying a broad knowledge of accounting, budget, or other financial management regulations, practices, procedures, and policies related to specific financial management functions; working with numerous government financial systems and on and off the shelf computer applications, (i.e. Financial Management System (FMS), Accounting and Procurement System(IFCAPS), VA Time and Attendance System (VATAS), etc.); conducting reviews for accuracy, adequacy of documentation, compliance with regulations, and justifications for actions taken. 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/12952127. 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, 05/13/2026. 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: 2026-05-13