OPS Professional Accountant Specialist

Requisition No: 838944 

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: OPS Professional Accountant Specialist

 Pay Plan: Temp

Position Number: 43627004 

Salary:  $20.75 per hour 

Posting Closing Date: 10/14/2024 

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***OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY***

DIVISION: ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING

BUREAU: STATE PAYROLLS

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

SPECIAL NOTES:

High School diploma or its equivalent is required.

Preferences:

• 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 data reconciliation and validation.
• Experience developing financial management policy.
• Experience with State of Florida Payroll processes.
• Experience working with the State of Florida in an accounting or financial reporting capacity.

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

This position will hire 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 governmental accounting standards.
• Knowledge of accounting systems.
• Ability to utilize spreadsheet applications.
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.
• 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:

Employee Records:

• Assist with requests of access for Consolidated Vendor Website.
• Independently audit salary overpayment refund forms.
• Review and monitor email inbox for the Employee Records team to ensure all requests are met timely.
• Review and work payroll reports related to employee records, balances, W4, etc.
• Assist with auditing payroll records to ensure accurate W-2 production.
• Answer ACD phonelines and formulate solutions or delegate to appropriate team members.
• Assist with validation of data for conversion to new accounting system.
• Assist with creating and executing test scenarios for new accounting system.
• 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.