ACCOUNTANT

Summary

You will serve as an ACCOUNTANT within the Comptroller Office of NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS COMMAND. You will perform funding document review and acceptance verify statutory authority, funding limits, and period of performance as well as maintaining electronic key supporting documents in accordance with records retention requirements.

Duties

• •You will create N-ERP Sales Orders: Translate accepted funding documents into accurate and complete N-ERP Sales Orders.
• •You will establish and validate the appropriate lines of accounting, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and funding limits to ensure proper recording of authority and support the execution, tracking.
• •You will review Purchase Requisitions (PRs) for compliance with federal appropriations law and Purpose, Time, and Amount requirements, including statutory purpose, period of availability, bona fide needs, and funding sufficiency.
• •You will record, update, and adjust obligations in N-ERP for complex transactions, contract modifications, amendments, and documents not processed through standard interfaces.
• •You will reconcile financial documents and N-ERP Sales Orders, including commitments, obligations, expenditures, and billings.
• •You will analyze Delinquent Aged Accounts Receivable Reports (DAARR), investigate Unbilled Accounts Receivable (UBAR), and resolve funding variances and unmatched transactions (UMTs).
• •You will research and resolve failed, suspended, and rejected Navy ERP transactions also coordinate with DFAS and stakeholders to identify causes, implement corrections, and ensure accurate processing.
• •You will process, track, reconcile, and record domestic and foreign collections, deposits, and wire transfers through applicable Treasury systems, including Pay.gov and the Collections Information Repository (CIR).
• •You will monitor workflow queues, intake logs, and shared portals. Triage and prioritize financial actions by urgency and complexity, assign work based on capacity and expertise, and track progress to ensure timely completion.
• •You will gather, validate, and submit documentation for internal and external audits and financial data calls.
• •You will prepare audit packages supporting financial management policies, internal controls, and Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) requirements.
• •You will integrate and validate financial information from multiple systems and support documents, resolve discrepancies, substantiate accounting balances and transactions, respond to audit inquiries, and support FIAR objectives.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower pay band, NH-02 (GS-11 Equivalent), in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional accountant conducting analysis of financial or accounting data, reports, or systems to ensure accuracy, completeness, or conformance with established procedures and guidelines. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Accounting Series 0510, Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR): https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0500/accounting-series-0510/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess, a degree in Accounting or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting. (The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law). (The term "accounting" means "accounting and/or auditing" in this standard. Similarly, "accountant" should be interpreted, generally, as "accountant and/or auditor.") -OR- a combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge. Your background also includes one of the following: 1) 24 semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality (this can include up to 6 hours of business law); or, 2) a certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor, obtained through written examination, or; 3) completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing. (e.g., 15 semester hours, but that does not fully satisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement of response option A, provided that (a) you successfully worked at the full-performance level in accounting, auditing, or a related field, e.g., valuation engineering or financial institution examining; (b) a panel of at least two higher level professional accountants or auditors has determined that you have demonstrated a good knowledge of accounting and of related and underlying fields that equals in breadth, depth, currency, and level of advancement that which is normally associated with successful completion of the 4-year course of study described in response option A; and (c) except for literal nonconformance to the requirement of 24 semester hours in accounting, your education, training, and experience fully meet the specified requirements)