Intern Position and Salary

CAREER INTERN RECRUITMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

Position and Salary:

Field Accountant
Rural Utilities Service

The current minimum starting salaries are approximately as follows:
Master’s degree – GS 9 at $41,772 per annum
Bachelor’s degree and at least a 2.95 GPA-GS 7 at $34,149 per annum
All other Bachelor degree candidates-GS 5 at $27,569 per annum
Promotion potential to GS-13

Each of the starting salaries may be increased by geographic locality pay adjustments. At
The full working level of GS-13, the current maximum pay is $88,973 per annum.

Location:

Various Positions Nationwide

Current Openings:
Montana
Northeastern Pennsylvania
New York
New England

Major Duties:

These positions involve an initial training period working with experienced field accountants. Field accountants principally work out of an office in their residence and travel to perform audits and accounting reviews at electric and telecommunications cooperatives and companies that borrow from the Rural Utilities Service. The positions involve 50 to 75% travel.

These challenging positions involve interacting with the utilities’ accountants, their CPA’s and representatives of other government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. They provide the opportunity to conduct loan fund and accounting reviews of electric, telecommunication and water borrowers with heavy emphasis on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS).