Accounting Technician

State of Oregon•Street, MD

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Oregon Department of Human Services is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are guided by our Equity North Star and our vision for a positive RiSE organizational culture that advances equity and diversity. We encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQIA2S+ community members, and others to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community. Opportunity Awaits! We're in search of leaders committed to promoting and fostering a diverse and qualified workforce where individuals feel welcome, appreciated, and valued for all they bring to the organization. Are you skilled in applying accounting methods and procedures? Do you possess skills in operating a computer to enter, update, and retrieve fiscal information? Can you track errors and resolve discrepancies in accounting records? If this position aligns with your skills and career goals, consider taking on a key role in our team as the (Accounting Technician for the Office of Financial Service) for the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS). Summary of Duties As an Accounting Technician, you will: As the Accounting Technician, you will maintain specialized accounting record systems, including checking financial transactions for propriety, resolving errors, balancing accounts, and records, and preparing reports. You will work in various OFS units and perform functions that compute, calculate and records financial, statistical, and numerical data to record details of business transactions to maintain accounting records and/or for use in statistical studies.

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. Credit hours must include introductory level accounting courses 1 and 2; 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.
Demonstrate Initiative: The ability to assess a situation and act without direction from someone else.
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.
Communication: Skill communicating with diverse groups, either verbally or in writing, to gather or exchange information or clarify and answer questions.
Reliability: To show people that one can be depended upon. A team needs to be able to rely on all members of the team to do their part.
Workload Management: The process of efficiently distributing and managing work across your team.

Responsibilities

Maintain specialized accounting record systems, including checking financial transactions for propriety, resolving errors, balancing accounts, and records, and preparing reports.
Compute, calculate and records 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 of 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.
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.