Job Description:

Accounting support services provide technical support to accounting, bank/tax examinations, collections, cash management, revenue, program funding, auditing, financial analysis, program management, timekeeping/payroll, and various other fiscal, financial and tax functions.

Work typically includes various combinations of business transactions such as, but not limited to classifying, computing, verifying, recording/posting, reconciling, simple audit/examination, summarizing numerical data, and compiling reports. Assignments are accomplished through manual and electronic applications. Regular contacts include intra/inter agency, local/state/federal agencies, and private sector organizations/individual citizens.

Essential Functions:

• Compute fiscal/financial transactions.
• Reconcile transactions/accounts.
• Classify and code fiscal/financial transactions.
• Review to ensure compliance with required documentation, computations, codes, signatures, and rules/regulations.
• Record fiscal/financial transactions to various financial information systems.
• Interact with public/private sector to provide/obtain information.
• Compile information/develop reports for use by others.
• Monitor balances and report discrepancies.
• Participate in recommending systems and forms enhancements.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of bookkeeping/basic accounting/basic auditing.
• Knowledge of office practices, procedures, and equipment.
• Knowledge of applicable accounting systems, budgetary processes, and auditing/reporting procedures.
• Knowledge of employing agency's program concentration, policies, and procedures.
• Knowledge of the applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
• Ability to apply analytical methods including computer applications to resolve bookkeeping/accounting problems.
• Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations.
• Ability to develop/recommend courses of action and express ideas clearly, concisely, and effectively, both orally and written.
• Knowledge of interrelationships of agency's accounting/program functions.
• Skill in completing special projects/studies.
• Skill in educating internal/external contacts regarding policies/procedures related to complex fiscal/financial/auditing activities.
• Ability to complete assignments across multiple functional areas.
• **Experience with First State Financials is preferred**