Senior Accountant/ Accountant Trainee 1/2 (NY HELPS), WCB Item #2528
The New York State Workers' Compensation Board is seeking a Senior Accountant to join their Office of Financial Services/Bureau of Accounting. The role involves providing critical financial analysis, preparing financial statements, and ensuring accurate account reconciliations.
Responsibilities
- Provide critical analysis of Special Fund revenues, expenditures and budgetary needs
- Retrieve and analyze data from Statewide Financial System (SFS) and other systems
- Complete WCB Special Revenue account reconciliations and Third Party Administrator (TPA) account reconciliations
- Prepare Financial Statements and supporting schedules for WCB Special Revenue Funds
- Present completed Financial Statements and supporting schedules for assigned WCB Special Revenue Funds to Associate Accountant and Accounts Team
- Perform general ledger journal entries, review general ledger transactions for accuracy and appropriateness
- Research and thoroughly document identified accounting issues, assist in making necessary corrections and ensure identified issues are appropriately resolved
- Complete daily and monthly bank reconciliation
- Complete daily and monthly investment reconciliation
- Review, analyze and track spending for WCB’s Special Revenue Funds, including accounts managed by procured (TPA)
- Ensure files submitted by TPA’s are timely, complete, and accurate. Work collaboratively with WCB program staff, finance staff and TPAs to resolve discrepancies
- Review daily, monthly, annual and/or periodic reports for accuracy and completion. Prepare Ad Hoc reports as requested
- Manage shared email box, ensure all inquiries are answered timely and accurately
- Participate in a group setting, ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Assist in special projects as requested by supervisor/management
- Ability to manage multiple tasks
- Correspond in a professional manner with co-workers, management, and external customers
- Strong analytical, written, and oral communication skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel, and Word)
- Working knowledge of Statewide Financial System (SFS) or the equivalent Oracle PeopleSoft applications
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, auditing, or taxation or a bachelor's degree with 24 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, or taxation courses
- For Accountant Trainee 2: One year of professional experience in accounting/auditing or financial internal or field auditing, where you were responsible for the full range of activities in the design and/or review, analysis and management of accounting systems, resulting in the preparation of, or recommendations on, financial statements in accord with generally accepted accounting principles
- For Senior Accountant: Two years of professional experience in accounting/auditing or financial internal or field auditing, where you were responsible for the full range of activities in the design and/or review, analysis and management of accounting systems, resulting in the preparation of, or recommendations on, financial statements in accord with generally accepted accounting principles
- Strong analytical, written, and oral communication skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel, and Word)
- Working knowledge of Statewide Financial System (SFS) or the equivalent Oracle PeopleSoft applications
- A master's or higher degree in accounting, auditing, or taxation may substitute for one year of experience
- A master's degree in accounting, auditing, or taxation and one year of professional experience in accounting/auditing or financial internal or field auditing, where you were responsible for the full range of activities in the design and/or review, analysis and management of accounting systems, resulting in the preparation of, or recommendations on, financial statements in accord with generally accepted accounting principles
- Currently valid Certified Public Accountant license and registration issued by New York State
Benefits
- Holiday & Paid Time Off
- Health Care Benefits
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
- Enrollment in the New York State pension system which has earned the distinction of being one of the best-managed and best-funded plans in the nation OR Optional Retirement Defined Contribution Plan with 8% salary match (eligibility requirements apply)
- NYS Deferred Compensation and an exclusive 403(b) Optional Retirement Savings Plan
- Paid Parental Leave for all employees and Paid Family Leave (M/C Only)
- Eligibility for various life insurance options
- Access to NY 529 and NY ABLE College Savings Program
- Flexible Spending Program, which allows employees to set aside pre-tax payroll deductions for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
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