What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting Technician (Accounting Technician) position at Department of Public Safety Standards and Training?
Initial Posting Date:
03/17/2025
Application Deadline:
03/30/2025
Agency:
Department of Public Safety Standards and Training
Salary Range:
$4,016 - $5,573
Position Type:
Employee
Position Title:
Accounting Technician (Accounting Technician)
Job Description:
Department of Public Safety Standards and Training
Accounting Technician (Accounting Technician)
This recruitment is for one (1), regular, full-time position located in Salem, OR (4190 Aumsville Hwy SE) and is represented by Oregon Public Safety Association. This recruitment will be used to establish a list of qualified applicants and may be used to fill future vacancies.
Note: No cover letter is required to apply, please ensure you allow sufficient time to complete the application questionnaire as it will determine candidate advancement.
What you will be doing:
This role involves applying basic accounting principles to manage revenues, expenditures, accounts payable, and receivable in line with GAAP, federal, and state guidelines. The responsibilities include maintaining subsidiary ledgers, generating specialized financial reports, monitoring open purchase orders to prevent overspending, and reviewing financial reports for exceptions. The position also involves verifying fee applications, resolving invoicing discrepancies, ensuring accurate and authorized financial documentation, and coordinating with vendors, departments, and officials on accounting policies.
The Accounts Payable duties include matching invoices with purchase orders, ensuring timely payments, researching discrepancies, and maintaining accurate records. Additionally, the role involves monitoring recurring vendors, resolving account errors, assisting with travel coordination, establishing new vendors, and handling customer service inquiries.
Other support tasks include working on special projects, maintaining desk procedures, attending team meetings, and performing tasks safely.
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About DPSST:
The Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) oversees the development of professional standards and the delivery of quality training for law enforcement officers, corrections officers, parole and probation officers, firefighters, telecommunicators, and emergency medical dispatchers. DPSST is also the regulatory agency that enforces employment and training standards for the above listed public safety disciplines and licenses proprietary security managers, security contractors and officers, polygraph examiners, and private investigators.
Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging is a core value at DPSST. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable working and learning environments for all students, staff, and faculty. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions. Employees are expected to uphold this value and foster an inclusive and equitable workplace.
The Benefits You’ll Enjoy:
- Work/life balance and a supportive working environment.
- 11 Paid holidays a year
- Paid sick leave, vacation, and personal leave.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and qualified family members. Find out more about our competitive benefits packages.Click hereto visit our full benefits website.
- Optional benefits additions such as flexible spending accounts, term life and more.
- You will be automatically enrolled into thePublic Employees Retirement System (PERS)program. Employees who are Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) participating members will have their base salary increased by 6.95% and pay a 6% employee contribution to PERS; the salary range noted above reflects base salary only.
- Free parking!
- Onsite Cafeteria
- Onsite wellness options
Minimum Qualifications:
Two (2) years of experience calculating, recording, and maintaining accounting information that must include coding transactions and checking them for propriety, balancing, and resolving discrepancies in computer edits.
OR
One (1) year of experience calculating, recording, and maintaining accounting information that must include coding transactions and checking them for propriety, balancing, and resolving discrepancies in computer edits AND at least 43 quarter (29 semester) credit hours from an accredited college, university, or vocational-technical school that includes 9 quarter (6 semester) credit hours in accounting. Credit hours must include introductory level accounting courses 1 and 2.
OR
At least 94 quarter (62 semester) credit hours or an associate degree from an accredited college, university, or vocational-technical school that includes 12 quarter (8 semester) credit hours in accounting. Credit hours must include introductory level accounting courses 1 and 2 and may include any additional accounting courses with “accounting” in the title.
Training or experience must include using a computer to enter, update, or retrieve information.
Requested Skills/ Desired Attributes:
“What we’d like to see” – If you have these qualities, let us know!
Successful candidates selected to move forward will meet the minimum qualifications and present the requested skills/desired attributes within their application material and application questionnaire
Note: You do not need to have all of these qualities to be eligible for this position.
- Ability to identify discrepancies in financial documents, verify accuracy, and ensure compliance with policies and regulations.
- Capacity to analyze financial data, resolve errors, and provide recommendations for process improvements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication abilities for interacting with vendors, department staff, and external stakeholders, and to explain accounting issues.
- Ability to proactively identify issues, troubleshoot discrepancies, and collaborate with others to find effective solutions.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines while handling multiple tasks.
- A customer-oriented approach to responding to inquiries and resolving issues in a professional manner.
- Adherence to high standards of professionalism, accuracy, and confidentiality in handling financial information.
Please note that the questionnaire will ask questions pertaining to the requested skills/desired attributes section. No cover letter is required. Allow sufficient time to complete your application in one sitting, as the saving of your application cannot be guaranteed in Workday.
Additional Requirements:
Successful candidates for this position will be subject to a computerized criminal history check. Adverse background information will be reviewed and could result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer or termination of employment.
How to Apply:
- Sign In or Create a Workday Account (Internal employees please use your Workday profile).
- Complete the self-prompted application AND attach your updated resume.
- If you do not have a resume, please make sure to include all your work experience when asked in the application.
- Complete the questionnaire within your application.
- After you submit your application, be sure to respond to the public records request (PRR) authorization and gender identity question. This screen will come after you submit and will complete the process. If you are an employee, the tasks will come to your Workday inbox.
- If you are a veteran, the task to claim preference will come after the PRR and gender identity tasks. For privacy reasons, please do not attach your DD214/DD215/civil service preference letter to your application or combine it with any other required document attachments. We will ask you for your documents later in the process. If you need time to locate or order your documents from the VA, please contact the recruiter at the phone number or email under the ‘Need help?’ section below.
Questions/Need Help?
For questions about the application process, contact Andrea.Self@DPSST.oregon.gov. Please be sure that you include the job announcement number.
Please ensure you’ve provided a thorough and updated application as it pertains to the position for which you are applying. Your application materials will be used to determine salary based on a pay equity assessment. For further information, please visit the
Pay Equity Project
homepage.
Pay and benefits on all job announcements may change without further notice.
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY STANDARDS AND TRAINING IS COMMITTED TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND WORKPLACE DIVERSITY.
