What are the responsibilities and job description for the OPS Professional Accountant Specialist position at State of Florida?
Requisition No: 845783
Agency: Financial Services
Working Title: OPS Professional Accountant Specialist
Pay Plan: Temp
Position Number: 43627010
Salary: $20.75 per hour
Posting Closing Date: 02/05/2025
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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.
This position requires a security background check, including fingerprint as a condition of employment.
The salary for this position is $20.75 per hour.
Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle.
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 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:
Payroll Processing/Involuntary Deductions:
- Independently audit and review payroll reports, payments, and agency requests for beneficiary payments.
- Process all incoming mail and manage outgoing payroll processing mail including beneficiary warrants and involuntary deduction warrants.
- Answer ACD phonelines and formulate solutions or delegate to appropriate team members.
- Review and work payroll related reports for all payrolls including On Demand payrolls, involuntary deduction payrolls, etc.
- Maintain and manage all payroll spreadsheets via excel.
- 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.
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