PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT SPECIALIST - 43001284

Requisition No: 840381 

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT SPECIALIST - 43001284

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 43001284 

Salary:  $46,668.00 - $99,779.40 

Posting Closing Date: 12/24/2024 

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***STATE PERSONNEL SYSTEM EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY***

DIVISION: OFFICE OF FINANCE AND BUDGET

BUREAU: FINANCIAL SERVICES

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

SPECIAL NOTES:

This is an employment opportunity for current employees within the State Personnel System.

A High School diploma or its equivalent is required.

Additional requirement:

• Two (2) years of bookkeeping/accounting experience

Preferences:

• Associate degree in Accounting or Business from an accredited college or university.
• Working knowledge of FLAIR accounting system, such as organization code, fund, budget entity, general ledger codes, object codes, transaction codes and related code structures.
• Experience processing disbursement entries in Florida Accounting Information Resource (FLAIR).
• Knowledge of trust fund investments and disinvestments
• Experience processing journals in Florida PALM.
• Experience with system access control and password reset.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to analyze data and solve problems.
• Ability to prioritize and plan your assignments according to pressing deadlines.
• Experience reviewing and analyzing state trust fund cash needs.

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

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, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of mathematics, Governmental Accounting, Statistics and management principles and practices
• Knowledge of the methods of compiling and analyzing data.

• Knowledge and use of Microsoft Office suit; Word, Excel, pivot tables, and merges, FLAIR, Data Warehouse. 
• Knowledge and use of mathematics, numbers and their operations and relationships with the business purpose.
• Knowledge and use of accounting principles and practices.

• Knowledge of basic accounting
• Knowledge and use of reading comprehension, understanding of written sentence in related documents.
• Knowledge and use of information gathering, knowing how to find information and identify essential information.
• Knowledge and use of problem solving, identifying nature of problems. 
• Knowledge and Ability to collect, evaluate and analyze data to solve problems and document workflow.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to plan, organize work, ability to interpret and apply laws, processes. 

• Ability to understand, interpret and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies.

• Ability to communicate effectively with others in both oral and written forms.
• Ability to work independently and use independent judgment based on statutes, rule, policy, desk procedures.
• Ability to reconcile accounts.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

This is a professional position in the Office of Finance & Budget.  The primary duty is to monitor and address agency TF cash investments/disinvestments as well as function as the Departmental FLAIR Access Control Custodian.

• Employee will accurately and timely reconcile the Consolidated Revolving Fund Account no later than the 20th day of each month.
• Perform all the essential functions as the Primary FLAIR Access Control Custodian which allows DFS employees to perform mission/business of DFS.  Create, update, reset and revoke usernames/Passwords for FLAIR access, as needed.  Maintain appropriate approval/deactivation forms.
• Serve as FLAIR and RDS administrator for creating user reports, libraries and creating user profiles.
• Responsible for timely and accurately transferring Sales Tax to Department of Revenue by the 20th of each month.
• Responsible for transferring non-operating funds to appropriated agencies, on an as needed basis. Responsible for accurately transferring funds quarterly funds to General Revenue. Responsible for accurately transferring quarterly appropriated funds to Judicial Circuit Court, as needed.
• Responsible for accurately review and monitor of upload of batch files into FLAIR using NATURAL.
• Responsible for following the provisions and requirements of Chapter 280, Florida Statutes, Security of Public Deposits and Chapter 17.57 F.S. Deposits and Investments of State Money to accomplish the investments, disinvestments, and liquidation activities for the DFS trust funds. 
• Responsible for Deposits and Investments of State Money to accomplish the investments, disinvestments, and liquidation activities for DFS trust funds.
• Review and Reconcile Treasury Interest Apportionment Report in Florida PALM and post interest apportionment to departmental FLAIR.
• Serves as a backup for FLAIR account codes adds/updates, and any title file activities.
• Performs special projects and other duties, as requested.

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.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.