Accounting Technician (2 Positions!)

About the role

The Oregon Department of Human Services is seeking two Accounting Technicians to join their team. This position supports the Salem office and involves maintaining specialized accounting record systems, monitoring fiscal areas, and preparing financial reports.

Responsibilities

• Maintain specialized accounting record systems, including checking financial transactions for propriety, resolving errors, balancing accounts, and records, and preparing reports.
• Work in various OFS units and perform functions that compute, calculate, and record financial, statistical, and numerical data to record details of business transactions to maintain accounting records and/or for use in statistical studies.
• 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.
• Maintain Accounting Records: 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• Training or experience must include using a computer to enter, update, or retrieve information.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Demonstrate Initiative: The ability to assess a situation and act without direction from someone else.
• Communication: Skill communicating with diverse groups, either verbally or in writing, to gather or exchange information or clarify and answer questions.
• Reliability: Demonstrated ability to consistently follow through on commitments, complete assigned responsibilities, and be a dependable team member who can be counted on to contribute to shared goals.
• Workload Management: Demonstrated ability to assess workload demands, allocate assignments appropriately, and adjust priorities to maintain productivity and meet team objectives.
• Attention to Detail: Ability to 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.

Skills

• 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.
• Ability to diagram the flow of a transaction through an accounting process using debits and credits to decide if the more complex accounting entries are correct.
• Basic understanding of accounting principles and practices.
• Ability to 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.

Benefits

• Cost of Living Adjustments.
• Annual salary increases (until you reach the top of the listed salary range).
• Awesome benefits package.
• Possible eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Pay

$4124.00 - $5714.00

Schedule

Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:0pm, PST.

Benefits

• Cost of Living Adjustments.
• Annual salary increases (until you reach the top of the listed salary range).
• Awesome benefits package.
• Possible eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Contact Information

We invite you to contact the recruiter for accommodation requests under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), application questions or job-specific questions. The recruiter for this position is Cris Jansen. If you contact the recruiter, please include the job requisition number: REQ-203662.

Email: Crista.jansen@odhs.oregon.gov
Phone (call or text): 503-826-6988