Accountant I

About the role

Employees are eligible for various benefits including health and prescription insurance, life insurance, optional insurances, flexible spending accounts, paid personal leave and sick leave, military leave, holidays, retirement programs, deferred compensation, state credit union, tuition reimbursement, career development and training, and promotional opportunities.

Responsibilities

Employees may select health and prescription insurance coverage with affordable co-payments. Participation in wellness and health promotion programs is also available. Employees are eligible for a term life insurance policy upon employment, which covers two times the employee’s annual salary to a maximum of $100,000. Additional benefits include discounted dental, vision, and cancer insurance, and childcare and unreimbursed medical expense pre-tax spending accounts.

Requirements

• Eligibility for health and prescription insurance
• Eligibility for wellness and health promotion programs
• Eligibility for term life insurance
• Eligibility for optional insurances such as dental, vision, and cancer insurance
• Eligibility for flexible spending accounts for childcare and unreimbursed medical expenses
• Eligibility for paid personal leave and sick leave
• Eligibility for military leave
• Eligibility for paid holidays
• Eligibility for retirement programs
• Eligibility for deferred compensation voluntary retirement savings plan
• Eligibility for participation in the Mississippi Public Employees’ Credit Union
• Eligibility for tuition reimbursement
• Eligibility for career development and training programs
• Eligibility for promotional opportunities within state government employment

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications must be met, including completion of 6 or more months of service and meeting the minimum years of experience and highest level of education required as specified in the job posting.

Skills

Skills relevant to the position may include knowledge of health and prescription insurance, wellness and health promotion, term life insurance, optional insurances, flexible spending accounts, paid personal leave and sick leave, military leave, holidays, retirement programs, deferred compensation, state credit union, tuition reimbursement, career development and training, and promotional opportunities.

Benefits

Health and prescription insurance, life insurance, optional insurances, flexible spending accounts, paid personal leave and sick leave, military leave, holidays, retirement programs, deferred compensation, state credit union, tuition reimbursement, career development and training, and promotional opportunities are available to eligible employees.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Details on schedule are not specified in the job posting.

Questions

• How many years of experience do you have?
• What is the highest level of education (or semester hours of college) you have completed from an accredited school?