ACCOUNTANT

State of Illinois•Springfield, IL

9d•$5,127 - $7,135•Onsite

About The Position

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is seeking an Accountant for the Office of Fiscal Management/Office of Realty and Capital Planning. This role involves personal services budgetary planning, maintaining accounting records for various grants, and establishing spending allocations for capital accounts and ORCP operations. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical accounting, budgeting, and expenditure tracking skills.

Requirements

Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four years of college with courses in business administration and accounting or four years of technical accounting experience.

Nice To Haves

Two (2) years of experience performing detailed work involving the application of accounting theory to routine accounting or auditing problems.
Two (2) years of technical working experience evaluating problems of moderate difficulty and analyzing and interpreting less complex accounting records and reports.
Two (2) years of experience performing detailed work involving written or numerical data and making arithmetical calculations rapidly and accurately, either manually or by machine.
Two (2) years of experience establishing and maintaining satisfactory working relationships with other employees and the public.
Elementary knowledge of office methods, procedures, standard office accounting machines and equipment.

Responsibilities

Independently performs technical accounting work, budgeting, and expenditures tracking for the Office of Realty and Capital Planning.
Performs personal services budgeting planning and control.
Maintains accounting records for interagency grants and federal grants.
Maintains documents of contractual obligations and SAP earmarks.
Completes RDT forms and FS12 forms for the deposit of revenues received.
Establishes spending allocations for selected capital accounts and for operations of the ORCP.
Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.