LEAD ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN

Summary

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Duties

• •Reviews and processes unusual or difficult accounting transactions, ensuring the propriety and validity of supporting documentation and determining the appropriate account and methodology for processing.
• •Responds to complex questions from customers or lower-level technicians regarding Disbursing data, discrepancies, and procedures.
• •Prepares account status reports and performs monthly reconciliation of the general and subsidiary accounts to assure balancing with computerized reports and/or manual records.
• •Performs administrative and technical functions to ensure the integrity of the general ledger.
• •Distributes and balances workload and ensures timely accomplishment of assigned work.

Qualifications

One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-06) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required. Specialized experience is defined as: Maintaining accounting or financial ledgers and posting financial transactions; preparing accounting reports; reconciling accounts and working with a variety of accounting and automated financial systems. You may qualify for consideration if meeting specialized experience, education requirement, 90 days after competitive appointment requirement, and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement, unless otherwise indicated on the announcement.

Education

GS-07 Substitution of Education for Experience: One full year of graduate level education may be substituted to meet the specialized experience required when it is directly related to the work of the position being filled. Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate level education and experience may be used to meet total experience requirements. To be creditable, education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (https://ope.ed.gov/dapip/#/home)