Accounting Clerk / Technician in Bury St Edmunds

This position is Non-appropriated Fund (NAF) and is located at the Resource Management, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom. The primary purpose of this position is to perform a full range of accounting duties. This is a developmental position leading to Accounting Technician NF-III. This position includes a comprehensive benefits package.

Duties

• Performs double-entry accrual accounting work in order to maintain a combination of journals and ledgers.
• Examines, verifies, and analyzes a variety of documents to determine their mathematical correctness, validity, and clerical accuracy.
• Documents may include purchase orders, vouchers, payrolls, property records, etc., which are complicated by discounts, partial payments, etc.
• Resolves disagreements by contacting vendor, completes posting documents with backup attached, codes documents, and posts to appropriate ledger or journal.
• Posts and totals general ledger accounts each month.
• Prepares worksheets, statements, and closes accounts.
• Prepares reports monthly, quarterly, and annually, reflecting the financial condition of activities serviced by the accounting unit.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Accounting Technician NF-III (in addition to the above duties)

• Performs a full range of accounting duties using double-entry accrual accounting methods.
• Classifies and verifies a wide variety of accounting documents in order to assure their mathematical correctness, completeness of information, and to prepare control sheets with appropriate accounting codes.
• Maintains double-entry bookkeeping journals and subsidiary ledgers, posting entries to establish accounts.
• Prepares monthly balances, reconciles accounts, and transcribes to general ledger for closeout of all accounts.
• Traces discrepancies, if necessary, to posting documents, computes operational expenses incurred by individual activities for accounting services provided, and assigns charges appropriately.
• Reports prepared may include profit and loss statements, financial statements, and miscellaneous financial reporting data.
• Performs verification daily cash counts on Central Cashier and VAT program.
• Observe slots program operation at the Central Cashier; either as cashier or verifier.
• May perform Central Cashier duties including making deposits at timely manner, slots deposits, replenishing change funds and balancing safe for verification.
• May process VAT payments from customers, verifies paperwork meets guidelines.
• Prepares disbursement paperwork and receipts for VAT check.
• Inputs customer’s information into access database.
• May prepare check and VAT certificate for signature by check signer; copies will be made for customer file and entered into database for transmission to accounts payable.
• If customer indicated check and VAT certificate will be mailed through post office based on current timelines.

Conditions of Employment

This position requires the incumbent to complete a background investigation with favorable results. This position is only open to applicants with PCS orders to a local USAF base or current UK work visa.

Qualifications

Applicants will be categorized by preference(s) and/or priority consideration eligibilities. An applicant’s eligibility will be determined based on eligibility claimed in the questionnaire and proof of eligibility MUST be provided with the application by the closing date, 06/26/2026. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Qualifying Experience

NF-II - Accounting Clerk

• Preferred experience in work which provided a knowledge of double entry accounting procedures and techniques; knowledge of procedures used to enter, modify, retrieve and delete information in an automated general ledger system; and the ability to analyze the interrelationship of accounts that are affected by varied transactions.
• Experience in responsible clerical or office work which includes ability to perform common arithmetic problems and to make change when receiving payments from customers.
• Must have experience in cash handling and cash accountability methods.

NF-III - Accounting Technician

• Experience in work which provided comprehensive knowledge of fund accounting methods, procedures, and techniques used in maintaining and analyzing all classes of accounts in an accounting system encompassing a number of diversified activities; ability to prepare financial settlements and reports.
• Experience interpreting regulations, guides and precedents sufficient to interpret and apply them in a variety of accounting situations.
• Experience utilizing an accounting system sufficient to flow individual funds and specific monies from initiation through expenditure stages in order to trace discrepancies in the system.

Education

This position does not allow for education substitution in order to qualify.

Benefits

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full‑time, part‑time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.