Accounting Technician
Oregon State Treasury is focused on improving the financial well-being of all Oregonians. This position is focused on general revenue and expenditure accounting and uses bookkeeping skills to record, review, and reconcile financial transactions to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Maintain customer profiles in the statewide accounting system, SFMA
- Processing invoices with appropriate coding to ensure timely payment
- Resolving discrepancies and edits transactions to ensure completeness, appropriateness and accuracy
- Responding to vendors and customers by phone or in writing to resolve payment issues
- Collecting Requests for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification (IRS Form W-9) when required
- Complete year-end close transactions as assigned by senior accountants
- Reviewing purchase documentation for completeness
- Resolve discrepancies in Online Electronic Deposit (OED) and online deposit portals
- Reconciliation of the 13 Screen in the statewide accounting system, SFMA. Ensure proper backup for all transactions
- Track receipts for Treasury funds as assigned
- Enter agency accounts receivable invoices in the statewide accounting system
- Review purchase requests for goods or services
- Create purchase and change orders using existing templates
- Route purchase orders or other approval forms to staff with sufficient Expenditure Decision Authority to approve purchases
- Implement solutions to shipping, receiving, and billing discrepancies after consultation with the Senior Procurement Officer or manager
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
- Successful completion of the State of Oregon Accounting Career Mobility Program or equivalent accounting certificate program from an accredited college or university; 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
- State of Oregon Government Accounting Experience
- Experience in processing accounts receivable invoices
- Experience in processing accounts payable invoices
- Experience in reconciling deposits
- Experience in purchase order processing
- Microsoft Excel skills
Benefits
- Low employee premium share for medical, dental, vision, and basic employee life (1% or 5% employee share);
- Robust paid leave package, such as vacation, personal business, holidays, sick leave, and floating day of leave;
- PERS retirement benefits;
- Support with training and development;
- Student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF);
- Optional benefits include optional life, short & long term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, Oregon Savings Growth Plan (deferred compensation plan), flexible spending accounts, long term care insurance, employee assistance program, and more!
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