Financial Accounts Technician
1 day ago
Duties include: Monitoring and reporting on the usage of the travel.....
Duties include:
- Monitoring and reporting on the usage of the travel cards.
- Ensuring tickets with the lowest available fare are ticketed within 24 hours.
- Ensuring flight/train tickets are available within five business days of travel.
- Ensuring approved travel authorities get an Itinerary and tickets.
- Coordinating with VA travel center and/or airline to complete ticketing for flights/train not ticketed in the e-system, sometimes working with both to ensure tickets are issued.
- Reviews costing of each ticket/travel authority to ensure appropriate cost information; if nonĀ facility cost information used, work with the VA travel center and/or other facility to get tickets issued.
- Provides guidance to employees on the use of electronic systems to prepare travel authorizations and travel expense reports, serves as the Site Administrator of the most current electronic travel system; Serves as the primary point of contact between the employee and the VA Finance Service Center, Concur Travel Program, the Government Travel Card contractor, and VACO travel.
- Reviews all temporary duty travel plans ensuring all estimated expenses and information Is appropriately accounted for and Is as accurate as possible on travel plans through the most current electronic travel system.
- Assists employees in developing itineraries based on information obtained
- Assists the employee in utilizing the available mechanisms to obtain the most advantageous transportation mode.
- Ensures every travel plan has received appropriate reviews and has been approved by a member of the appropriate leadership team.
- Ensure flights are booked and tickets available when needed.
- Serves as a Payroll Technician.
- Ensures proper application of pay regulations and consistency of input in the actions of appointments, promotions, pay adjustments, reassignments, awards, and separations.
- Makes complex pay adjustment which may involve transfers between pay systems differing in pay, leave, and benefit entitlements and which may be retroactive over an extended period of time.
- Research back pay claims, which may involve different fiscal years, pay levels, and duty stations; compute interest payment entitlement.
- Audit transactions received from Human and Learning Resources Service; determine impact on employee pay records and the necessity for payroll action.
- Research individual leave records on employees that separate from the agency, transferring to other agencies or terminating.
- Processes the full range of payroll actions in an automated system for employees appointed under the different personnel systems, which have unique pay accounts.
- Build and modify programs, prepare/adjust data for input as well as manipulate and analyze data.
- Developing spreadsheets, understanding, and creating data base formulas, as well as analyzing data and preparing reports.
- Utilizes a government and personal computer and software packages including VISTA, VATAS, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, Access and PowerPoint to produce a variety of documents, reports, and graph presentations.
- Procuring, analyzing, and formatting data from VSSC, DFAS, VATAS, Concur, and Thin Client as well as various spreadsheets, and other areas as needed and enters in appropriate areas of the VISN 10 SharePoint for FQAM.
- Assists the Supervisor Financial Analyst and Assistant Financial Officer with creating and managing Fiscal projects as it pertains to FQAM and employee satisfaction.
- Responsible for database management; data entry, creating and printing reports, changing forms as necessary, and printing statistical reports.
- Development of Excel spreadsheets and graphs.
- Creates reports to Management for all recommendations based on FOAM audits and tracks actions to completion.
- Incumbent will work with multiple Fiscal Sections such as Payroll, Travel, Budget, Accounting and Auditor to update programs, conduct activities, and report Findings to the Supervisory Financial Analyst
- Serves as the TMS Coordinator for the Fiscal staff and assists other services with TMS issues as they arise.
- Serves as an alternate timekeeping resource, aiding in the daily recording of time and attendance for Fiscal staff.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Financial Accounts Technician
/PD92487A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Starting at $51,453 Per Year (GS 7)
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