OPS Professional Accountant Specialist

Requisition No: 870120 

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: OPS Professional Accountant Specialist

 Pay Plan: Temp

Position Number: 43627004 

Salary:  $20.75 per hour 

Posting Closing Date: 02/25/2026 

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***OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY***

DIVISION: ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING

BUREAU: STATE PAYROLLS (PAYROLL PROCESSING TEAM)

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

SPECIAL NOTES:

 High School diploma or its equivalent is required.

Preferences:

• Experience working with the State of Florida in an accounting capacity.
• Experience with State of Florida Payroll processes.
• Experience working with accounting records and data.
• Experience with data cleansing, conversion, and/or migration.
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing related to developing scenarios with pass/fail criteria, developing scripts, executing testing, and documenting results.
• Experience with audit wage payments.
• Experience with data reconciliation and validation.
• Experience understanding financial management policy.

This advertisement may be used to fill current and future vacancies for up to 6 months.

Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle. 

This position will be hired at $20.75 per hour.

This position requires a security background check, including fingerprint as a condition of employment. 

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process. 

Minimum Qualifications for this position include the following REQUIRED ENTRY LEVEL KNOWLEDGE,

• Knowledge of basic accounting and auditing principles, theory, and concepts.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, auditing procedures, laws, and administrative rules.
• Knowledge of governmental accounting standards.
• Knowledge of accounting systems.
• Ability to utilize spreadsheet applications.
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.
• Ability to plan, coordinate, and motivate employees in accomplishing the Bureau’s objectives.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• The ability to analyze, comprehend and problem solve accounting and auditing issues.
• Ability to perform data analysis and make conclusions.
• The ability to understand, interpret and apply laws, rules, and authoritative pronouncements.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

• Independently audit and review payroll reports while all payrolls are processing.
• Review requests from agencies for retroactive payments.
• Maintain and manage all payroll spreadsheets via excel.
• Assist with validation of data for conversion to Florida Planning, Accounting and Ledger Management (PALM).
• Assist with executing test scenarios for FL PALM
• Assist in the reconciliation of payroll related trust funds.

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the   State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended, or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.