Staff Accountant

This position is available with the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.

About the role

Provide accounting support to the Agency in the areas of revenue recognition; federal funding requests; and preparation of various reconciliations and reports for submission to state offices and federal agencies.

Responsibilities

• Manage agency deposit book accurately reflecting all revenues received by the agency ensuring appropriate General Ledger coding.
• Perform three-way reconciliation between the deposit book, state's accounting system, and Oklahoma State Treasurer's Activity Statement to calculate transfer from clearing account to fund. Appropriate general ledger coding must be maintained.
• Calculate and process weekly or as-needed federal program draws from federal systems ensuring funds are received within the required 3-day period to avoid interest.
• Manage the agency’s Authority Order for all funds to ensure appropriate coding and funding exists to process school payments and other expenditures.
• Serve as back-up for the sales tax reconciliation collected and create warrants remitted to Oklahoma Tax Commission. Review and prepare refunds from agency clearing account as needed.
• Continually review Oklahoma State Treasurer Office unclaimed deposits to ensure all agency revenue is claimed and appropriately reported on agency's General Ledger.
• Troubleshoot EFT notification and payment issues and work with Oklahoma Management and Enterprise Services if a treasury offset exists in a draw.
• Prepare and process stop payment documentation for lost or stolen warrants and canceled documentation and issue replacement warrants.
• Collaborate with Federal Programs divisions to capture first-tier sub-award information including UEI, ZP+4, and executive compensation data and report this information in the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) sub award reporting system.
• Provide back-up support for Tech Center Financial Specialist processes.
• Provide back-up for other Financial Services functions to ensure internal controls and to maintain business continuity.

Requirements

• Three years’ accounting experience
• Expertise in Microsoft Word and Excel
• 10-key proficiency
• Ability to lift 25 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field
• Experience in state accounting system

Skills

• Read, analyze and interpret professional journals, financial reports, and legal documents, as necessary
• Write reports, business correspondence and procedural manuals
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of supervisors, customers, and the public
• Communicate technical concepts and thoughts to management
• Apply moderately complex mathematical equations (e.g., calculating discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, and volume, and applying concepts of basic algebra and geometry)
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions and deal with abstract and concrete variables
• Analyze and interpret instructions, rules, and policies
• High level of attention to detail

Pay

$45,940.86 - $52,044.49

Benefits

• The state provides a benefit allowance to help pay for insurance premiums which include health, dental, life, and disability insurance. The amount of your allowance, $9,000-$20,000, is determined based upon the dependents you choose to include in health coverage.
• State paid teacher’s retirement pension
• Flexible benefits plan
• Vacation leave plus 15 days sick leave and 11 paid holidays
• Employee assistance program
• Flextime work schedule options

Total salary and benefits package valued at $60,028.91 - $66,591.96.

Schedule

Full time, regular position. Position officed on-site at CareerTech in Stillwater, OK.