Accounting Technician

The Oregon Department of Human Services is seeking an Accounting Technician to join their Office of Financial Services. The role involves maintaining specialized accounting record systems, ensuring the accuracy of financial transactions, and preparing various financial and statistical reports.

Responsibilities

• Ensure financial documents are complete, accurate, and have proper authorizations
• Monitor and give information about fiscal areas, such as federal and state grants, budgets, monthly benefit accounts, contracts, etc
• Diagram the flow of a transaction through an accounting process using debits and credits to decide if the more complex accounting entries are correct. Review errors and edits to isolate problems and decide how to resolve them
• Review and process contested or complicated financial transactions
• Perform verification of computer uploads to accounting records for accuracy
• Balance and examine for accuracy, propriety, and reasonableness monthly revenues and expenditures, subsidiary and control accounts, collections, inventory, and other financial information having interrelated accounts
• Prepare financial and statistical reports, such as statements of cash receipts and disbursements, accounts payable, accounts receivable, supporting schedules, profit and loss statements, and other detail and summary reports pertinent to the operation of the agency

Skills

• Two 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 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
• Demonstrate Initiative: The ability to assess a situation and act without direction from someone else
• Proficiency in MS Excel: Functions such as sum, average, count and understand basic formatting, able to build simple formulas to calculate data, and have a basic understanding of pivot tables, basic understanding of macros
• Communication: Skill communicating with diverse groups, either verbally or in writing, to gather or exchange information or clarify and answer questions
• Reliability: To show people that one can be depended upon. A team needs to be able to rely on all members of the team to do their part
• Workload Management: The process of efficiently distributing and managing work across your team

Benefits

• ODHS Employee Resource Group communities that promote shared learning.
• Cost of Living Adjustments.
• Annual salary increases (until you reach the top of the listed salary range).
• Amazing benefits package.
• Possible eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

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