Budget Technician

Company: Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
Location: Columbia
Posted on: February 13, 2020

Job Description:

SummaryDuties: Works with Budget Analyst to formulate, justify, and execute medical center budget. Budget Technician will ensure control point balances are reconciled, provide customer service to all service lines concerning control point allocations and obligations. Maintains accurate records and controls to ensure costing is correct. Assists budget analyst with monthly cost transfers and budget reporting to include budget briefings, service reports, distribution, and control point audits.ResponsibilitiesDuties: Works with Budget Analyst to formulate, justify, and execute medical center budget. Budget Technician will ensure control point balances are reconciled, provide customer service to all service lines concerning control point allocations and obligations. Maintains accurate records and controls to ensure costing is correct. Assists budget analyst with monthly cost transfers and budget reporting to include budget briefings, service reports, distribution, and control point audits. 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 thru Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pmVirtual: This is not a virtual position.Position Description/PD#: Budget Technician/PD08396-0Financial Disclosure Report: Not requiredRequirementsConditions of EmploymentQualificationsTo qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/26/2020. Time-in-Grade Restriction - 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. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service.Time in Grade applies to advancement to a General Schedule (GS) position in the competitive service by any individual who within the previous 52 weeks has held a GS position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service. You must indicate on your application the time period that you meet these time-in-grade requirements. For example, state "I was employed as a GS-5 in a permanent position for the period (list the period using month/day/year to month/day/year). If you fail to provide this information, this office cannot verify that you meet the time-in-grade requirements and you may be found ineligible for this position. Specialized Experience: GS-06 - Applicants 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 include, but are not limited to: preparing expenditure, obligation and fund reports via excel or access platforms, researching policies and regulations, maintaining accounting data and providing quality customer service. GS-07 - Applicants must have One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-06) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: experience with researching policies and regulations, analyzing large amounts of data, experience with maintaining accounting data for a variety of services, performing reconciliations to ensure correct funding and obligation, experience with control point activities and providing quality customer service. There is no educational substitution for the GS-06 or GS-07 level. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Budget AdministrationFinancial AnalysisFinancial ManagementFinancial SystemsPrinciples of Finance Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; 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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: Work is of a sedentary nature. Some occasional walking and standing is required while consulting with personnel in other services. Duties regularly involve carrying light files, computer printouts, etc., for short distances. Work is performed in a normal office setting. Work site is properly heated, lighted and air-conditioned. Time-in-grade: 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. For a GS-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05 level. For a GS-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06 level. 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/.EducationThere is no educational substitution at this grade level. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.Additional InformationReceiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed. Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified: applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the required competencies of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/. Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement. Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position. It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members. For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document. If you are unable to apply online view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application.

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