Financial Operations Accountant - CFO60083284

State of North Carolina • Wake County, NC

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) Budget and Finance Office is seeking a Financial Operations Accountant to perform technical financial work independently. The role records, maintains, and reports financial data to the general ledger, runs financial reports to analyze data for accuracy, and reconciles data and information.

The position supports financial operations involving payroll, contract reimbursements, sales tax, journal vouchers, and budget and personnel actions. It also prepares reports for departmental staff and reviews personnel and organizational management actions to help ensure correct funding data is entered into the Integrated HR Payroll System (IHRPS).

The position is based at 109 East Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina, and is eligible for hybrid telework under DNCR’s Telework Policy. It is an internal state-government posting open only to eligible current North Carolina State Government or University employees and qualifying layoff candidates.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting; or a degree in business administration, finance, public administration, or a related discipline from an appropriately accredited institution with 18 semester hours of accounting; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated knowledge of the BD701 report.
• Demonstrated experience running NCFS reports and/or working with the NCFS accounting structure.
• Demonstrated experience with sales tax entries.
• Demonstrated experience entering journal entries into NCFS, manually and using the spreadsheet upload feature.
• Demonstrated experience with workflow actions in IHRPS and/or BOBJ reports.

Responsibilities

• Analyze North Carolina Accounting System (NCFS) and Integrated HR Payroll System (IHRPS) financial reports and oversee or prepare invoices for approximately 30 contracts for reimbursement of temporary and permanent receipt positions.
• Monitor the NC Budget to Actual Detailed Report (BD701) to verify that receipted salary revenues and expenditures reconcile and ensure divisions collect delinquent funds.
• Ensure established procedures are followed before salary reserves are used, and research salary reserve discrepancies between IHRPS and the Integrated Budget Information System (IBIS).
• Perform medical, monthly, and bi-weekly payroll reconciliations between NCFS and IHRPS.
• Perform sales tax duties.
• Prepare and enter various journal vouchers in NCFS.
• Review final budget approval for personnel adjustment (PA) and organizational management (OM) actions submitted by HR Managers, ensuring correct IHRPS cost center codes, order numbers, and fund codes are used when entering funding data.
• Prepare and create NCFS reports for departmental staff on a weekly basis.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave for birth, adoption, and foster care.
• Eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program for employees with student loans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level