Supervisory Accountant

Veterans Health Administration • Fayetteville, AR

16h • Onsite

About The Position

The Supervisory Accountant (Accounting Chief) works in the Fiscal Service of the Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks VA Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The position leads and oversees the Medical Center’s accounting operations, ensuring accurate financial reporting, regulatory compliance, effective internal controls, and responsible stewardship of federal resources.

The role manages proprietary and budgetary accounting across multiple platforms and subsidiary records, ensuring activity is captured, journaled, recorded, and reported through United States Standard General Ledger accounts to the U.S. Treasury system of record. It oversees complex decentralized double-entry accounting, financial systems interfaces and continuity, reconciliations, financial quality assurance, and reporting. The Accounting Chief also supervises staff and advises management on accounting practices, document flow, payments, and compliance matters.

The position is located at the VA Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and may change based on facility needs. Telework may be authorized; eligibility is discussed during the interview. The position is not virtual.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must complete the application, questionnaire, and required online assessment.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must be registered for Selective Service.
• Must be subject to a background/security investigation and complete online onboarding and acceptable identity-document requirements.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is required for VA Health Care Personnel.
• Must serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
• Current Federal employees who held a GS grade within the past 52 weeks must meet the GS-12 time-in-grade requirement, including 52 weeks at GS-11, and submit supporting SF-50 documentation.
• Must meet the Individual Occupational Requirement through an accounting degree, a related degree with 24 semester hours in accounting, or the specified combination of accounting experience, education, and training. Alternative qualifying pathways include the specified accounting/auditing coursework, CPA or CIA certification by written examination, or qualifying substantial accounting coursework combined with full-performance accounting experience and a professional panel determination.
• Must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-11, such as supervising a multi-level accounting team; ensuring compliance with federal accounting policies and regulations and overseeing complex processes and controls; making resource commitments and fiscal decisions in a VA or federal financial environment; managing complex accounting operations, voucher examination, agent cashier activities, and financial quality assurance; and coordinating financial activities with cross-functional stakeholders.
• A transcript is required if education is used to qualify. Education must be from an institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; foreign education requires a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency.

Responsibilities

• Exercises first- and second-level supervisory authority, including filling vacancies, approving leave, assigning workloads and performance measures, developing standard operating procedures, managing the organization, determining training needs, leading improvement and systems redesign efforts, implementing policy and procedural guidance, coordinating with AFGE union partners, evaluating performance, and administering minor discipline.
• Oversees accounting operations using proprietary and budgetary accounting methods, including compound entries for assets, liabilities, operating income and expenses, net worth, budgetary resources, reimbursements, and revenue.
• Reviews and revises Accounting Section methods and procedures to streamline, improve, and simplify operations.
• Coordinates automated data-processing modifications and use of technology, including remote terminals, macro-enabled Excel tools, and database tools for managing financial data.
• Monitors data-processing interfaces among FMS, CASCA, MCCF, IFCAP, CAPPS, eCMS, IPPS, and PAID.
• Establishes controls to minimize processing errors and monitors processing and reconciliations.
• Maintains continuity among financial platforms to ensure timely recording of accruals, journals, payments, invoicing, and delivery orders, and accurate balances.
• Synchronizes Medical Center financial, cost, and allotment accounting records for each program.
• Conducts test audits to assess accounting-record validity and accuracy and the application of accounting controls; adapts systems to special circumstances and makes final decisions on technical accounting matters when appropriate.
• Reviews monthly financial data for General Post Funds, Personal Funds of Patients, plant, property, and equipment, and related systems and records, including AEMS/MERS, FAP, FMS, agent accountability, abnormal SGL balances, receivables, payables, undelivered orders, and reconciliations.
• Interprets accounting records in verbal communications and ensures accurate compilation, preparation, and timely submission of financial reports and statistics.
• Advises management on efficient document flow, payments, manual requirements, and problem areas to support Prompt Payment Act compliance based on procurement type.
• Guides, reviews, and validates financial quality assurance reviews and responds to external and internal audits, inspections, visits, and inquiries from GAO, OIG, MQAS, FAO, and congressional offices regarding financial balances, activities, processes, findings, and recommendations.

Benefits

• Federal employees receive a comprehensive benefits package for themselves and their families.
• VA may grant eligible newly appointed Federal employees service credit for job-related non-federal experience or active-duty uniformed military service when determining annual leave accrual; approval must be requested before appointment and is not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager