ACCOUNTANT 2

Arizona Department of Administration • Phoenix, AZ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS) is seeking a talented Accountant 2 to join their diverse and inclusive team. PSPRS aims to honor the contributions and sacrifices of Arizona’s public safety employees by providing outstanding service and retirement benefits to approximately 60,000 active and retired public employees, including police officers, firefighters, corrections officers, judicial and elected officials. The organization offers competitive pay and excellent benefits and fosters a culture that promotes learning and collaboration. The Accountant 2 is responsible for preparing, posting, and reconciling all cash disbursements and receipts, including refunds, pension payroll, accounts payable, various transfers, daily contribution checks and wire transfers. This role involves monitoring disbursement requests for appropriateness and ensuring all necessary approvals. Additionally, the Accountant 2 prepares various reports such as daily cash sheets, budget reports, month-end financials, and ACFR production. They are also tasked with maintaining and reconciling internal databases, preparing data downloads and uploads between internal systems and Mellon investments, and performing other related duties. This position may be available for remote work within Arizona, with flexibility for working remotely in homes, offices, and hoteling spaces.

Requirements

• Knowledge of Generally accepted accounting practices and principles (GAAP).
• Knowledge of Principles, concepts, practices, methods and techniques of government accounting and fiscal management.
• Knowledge of Applicable laws, codes and regulations.
• Knowledge of Methods and techniques of data processing as it relates to accounting practices.
• Knowledge of Federal and State accounting laws, rules and procedures.
• Skill in Maintaining accurate financial records and preparing clear and accurate reports for informational, auditing and operations use.
• Skill in Reconciling accounts, records, reports and journals.
• Skill in Reviewing and verifying accuracy of data.
• Skill in Preparing financial and/or auditor statements, schedules and reports.
• Skill in Review, audit and analysis of complex accounting and financial reports.
• Skill in Financial automated accounting systems (AZ360 and Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains highly desirable) and database management software applications such as Access and other PC or mainframe based accounting database.
• Ability to Perform multiple tasks simultaneously in a team environment with minimal supervision.
• Ability to Organize own work, setting priorities and meeting critical deadlines.
• Ability to Independently plan, organize, coordinate and perform work in various situations where numerous and diverse demands are involved.
• Ability to Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of the positions area of responsibility.

Nice To Haves

• A bachelor's degree in accounting or closely related field from an accredited college or university.
• Accounting, budgeting or internal controls experience.
• Working knowledge of accounting databases and/or software and a reasonable level of Excel experience.

Responsibilities

• Process daily GL transactions including check deposits and incoming wire deposits.
• Reconcile trial balance cash accounts for multiple bank accounts.
• Perform cash flow analysis and maintain daily average balances to avoid bank fees.
• Monitor and review processed accounting transactions and related system reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Receive agency invoices and purchase orders, enter all invoices into Great Plains, verify GL accounts of all payments, verify all proper signatures and purchase orders accounted for, ensure proper funds available for payments.
• Create payments, wire cash from money market accounts to checking accounts, create and upload ACH files for EFT payments, create and upload positive pay files for checks, create and reconcile GL entries.
• Create all reports used by benefits and insurance departments, reconcile all records in benefits and insurance ledgers to all records in GL.
• Reconciliation of all contributions received in contribution ledger to all journal entries made in GL.
• Create month end contribution accruals and monthly GL export for Great Plains import from EPIC detailed transactions.
• Design and create ad hoc reports, spreadsheets and forms for the Accounting department and other departments within the agency.
• Streamline internal processes across many departments.
• Access multiple databases with Excel queries to import external data to create fully customizable reports, spreadsheets and forms.

Benefits

• 10 paid holidays per year
• Accrual of sick and annual leave
• Affordable medical benefits
• Participation in the Arizona State Retirement Plan (after 6 months of employment)
• Optional participation in a 457 deferred compensation program
• Employer matching on employee deferrals in the 457 plan (limited to a matching of 6% of salary on a per pay period basis)
• Paid Parental Leave program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees