Accounting Technician - Phoenix, United States - US Justice, Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System
4 weeks ago
Description
Duties:
Primary duties encompass monitoring the obligation status of the Salaries and Expenses (S&E) appropriation, the Buildings and Facilities (B&F) appropriation, Trust Fund Operations, and Inmate Deposit fund accounting.
The incumbent is responsible for providing administrative and financial support services and maintaining the daily status of accounting data reflected in the Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
Manages purchase orders, contracts, travel authorizations, government transportation requests, and other source documents and assures they are obligated against the proper appropriated and non-appropriated funds.
Maintains automated obligation records and source documents on a daily basis.
Prepares, reconciles, and ensures funds are available for obligation accruals, adjusts accruals in the month and quarter in which the obligation is incurred and ensures accurate entry into automated accounting system.
Recording of the obligations into undelivered orders and/or accounts payable shall be performed in accordance with GAO Title 7 and other government-wide accounting standards and in conformance with applicable auditing standards.
Perform travel functions in the FMIS Travel Module such as establishing a Travel Authorization (obligation), issuing Travel Advances and preparing Travel Vouchers.
Assists in the preparation of monthly account reconciliations and adjustments of accounts for prior year appropriations.
Work will involve the Building and Facilities Appropriation, the Trust Fund, the Salaries and Expenses Appropriation, and various multi-year appropriations.
Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution.The staffs correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.
Requirements:
Conditions of Employment:
- U.S. Citizenship is Required.
- See Special Conditions of Employment Section.
Qualifications:
To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements:
Education:
GL-06 and GL-07: As a general rule, education is not creditable above GL-5 for most positions covered by this standard; however, graduate education may be credited in those few instances where the graduate education is directly related to the work of the position.
OR
Experience:
GL-06 and GL-07: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to perform successfully the duties of the position to be filled.
Some examples of this qualifying experience are:
GL-06:
- Experience in using and understanding accounting terminology and account codes relating to an automated system.
- Experience in reconciling accounts; preparing reports or schedules reflecting the status of funds within each account. Locating and summarizing information from files and documents as required.
- Experience performing balancing, reconciling of detail and reporting and summary information within and between related accounts and records as necessary and creating correspondence to general questions related to financial information.
- Experience validating, monitoring, controlling, and maintaining accounting transactions and accounting records using a variety of procedures.
- Experience researching discrepancies between ledgers and making adjustments; and reconciling detailed listing of outstanding transactions to general ledger control accounts.
GL-07:
- Experience in validating, monitoring, controlling and maintaining transactions and accounting records for multiple accounts.
- Experience in maintaining control accounts and subsidiary accounts.
- Experience in processing accounting transactions for a wide variety of functions including obligations, accrued expenditures, disbursements, appropriation refunds, reimbursable orders, earnings, collections, expenditure vouchers, cost transfers, rejected transactions, interfund bills, and other accounts in connection with the general ledger.
To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.
Education:
See Qualifications Section for education requirements,
if applicable.
- Foreign Education:_ For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department
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