Financial Specialist

New Jersey Courts•Newark, NJ

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The New Jersey Judiciary is seeking a finance professional to enhance its Finance Division. This role operates with high standards of independence, integrity, fairness, and quality service, contributing to meaningful work that impacts the public. The selected individual will coordinate report collection, review court activities for compliance, suggest improvements, provide analytical analysis, and train co-workers. The position involves assembling materials, collecting data for reports, maintaining record-keeping systems, assisting with user documentation, and composing correspondence. The Judiciary offers opportunities for growth and a hybrid work schedule, potentially allowing up to two remote work days per week, provided high-speed internet access is available.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including or supplemented by 21 credit hours in accounting, business administration, economics, public administration and/or finance.
Twelve of these credit hours must be in accounting.
College or university transcript is required.
An unofficial transcript is required in order to apply.
Degrees conferred outside of the United States must be evaluated by a recognized evaluation service.
Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
Selected candidate must be authorized to work in the US according to Department of Homeland Security, US Citizenship and Immigration Services regulations.
Newly hired employees must agree to a thorough background check that will include fingerprinting.
All persons newly hired by the Judiciary within one year must establish, and then maintain, principal residence in the State of New Jersey.

Nice To Haves

Applicants who do not possess the required education, but do possess the 21 accounting, business administration, economics, public administration, and/or finance credit hours, including 12 accounting credit hours, may substitute additional paraprofessional and/or professional experience on a year-for-year basis with one year of such experience being equal to 30 semester hour credits.

Responsibilities

Coordinate report collection activities.
Review court activities for compliance with laws, court rules, or administrative directives.
Suggest improvements in work unit operation.
Write user processes or administrative practices.
Provide analytical analysis of reports.
Recommend improvements in operating procedures and work processes.
Provide structured training to co-workers.
Assemble materials and collect data to generate reports.
Establish and/or maintain record keeping tracking systems and various spreadsheets.
Assist with writing user documents for the unit.
Compose routine correspondence as necessary.
Perform other related duties and required on-site duties.
Act as a liaison and establish positive working relationships with other divisions, vicinages, central office and external stakeholders.
Analyze requisitions, vouchers, bank statements or financial transactions.
Perform financial and internal control audits.
Monitor, screen and process financial Federal Title IV-D transactions and modifications.
Collect and maintain case statistics and financial data to generate status reports for various funding sources, including grants and the Federal Title IV-D program.
Navigate various legacy and proprietary technology systems to extract needed data.
Participate fully in team or work unit meetings and special projects.
Prepare and enter accounting entries and calculate salary data.
Process transactions, record monies received, reconcile balances and accounts.
Provide quality customer service to court users and/or internal customers.
Review activities for adherence to applicable procedures, administrative directives and laws/regulations.
Review correspondence, reports and forms for completeness, clarity and accuracy.
Recommend improvements in operating procedures, programs, standards, work processes, or administrative practices.
Verify entered data against source documents.
Treat all personnel, clients and the public with dignity and respect.