TAX AUDITOR III - 79011436

State of Florida • Jacksonville Beach, FL

7d • $43,830 - $50,707 • Onsite

About The Position

License efficiently. Regulate fairly. Florida counts on the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) to ensure important matters are handled well. Responsibilities range from ensuring the safety of food service, maintaining the integrity of real estate transactions, furthering the transparency of condominium governance, and overseeing the qualifications of licensure that ensure work requiring a skilled professional is performed safely and sufficiently. DBPR’s stakeholders include these professionals and their customers alike. Under the direction of Secretary Melanie S. Griffin, DBPR oversees many of Florida’s professions and industries in the areas above, and many more which can be seen on our website: http://www.myfloridalicense.com/DBPR. The Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco licenses the manufacture, distribution, sale, and service of alcoholic beverage and tobacco products in Florida, including receipt and processing of license applications; collection and auditing of taxes and fees paid by licensees; and enforcement of the laws and regulation of the alcoholic beverage and tobacco industries, pursuant to Chapters 210, 561-565, 567-569, Florida Statutes. The division's three bureaus - Licensing, Auditing and Enforcement - comprise a team of approximately 325 personnel fulfilling the regulatory obligations of the division throughout the state.

Requirements

• Must possess a minimum of two years of professional auditing or accounting experience.
• Must possess a valid State of Florida driver’s license no later than the date of appointment.
• Must be willing to use personal vehicle to conduct job assignments.
• Knowledge of accounting or auditing methods, principles and procedures.
• Knowledge of the methods used in verifying and analyzing data.
• Knowledge of basic mathematics.
• Ability to extract and disseminate tax information.
• Ability to analyze, evaluate and interpret financial data.
• Ability to examine and audit financial records.
• Ability to prepare financial audit reports.
• Ability to understand and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Ability to provide technical assistance and advice to taxpayers.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.

Nice To Haves

• Applicants with a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major course of study in accounting or an area of business which includes five courses in accounting.

Responsibilities

• Plans and conducts independent audits of licensees, including source documents and accounting records review, and separate transaction analysis of all movement of product.
• Audits may include counting and recording inventories on hand for alcoholic beverages, other tobacco products, and taxable cigarettes.
• Assists higher level tax auditors or supervisors in more complex audits.
• Performs the duties and responsibilities of Tax Auditor I's when necessary.
• Conducts desk audits on monthly reports, including verification of the mathematical accuracy of the reports, examination of the reports for completeness and correctness on cigarette, other tobacco product, beer, wine, and liquor reports of various types.
• Verification of payment of taxes, and cross-reference of product movement.
• Conducts inventories and/or audits of the division's fixed assets, information and evidence fund (I&E), seized evidence (vault), cigarette tax stamps, petty cash, and checking accounts.
• Trains other tax auditors on proper auditing techniques and documentation of discrepancies as well as agency policies and procedures and state laws.
• Witnesses and accounts for the destruction of cigarette stamp indicia, alcoholic beverage breakage, spoiled beverages and damaged cigarettes and tobacco products.
• Completes other special projects and additional work as required.

Benefits

• State of Florida retirement package: 3% employee contribution required.
• Nine annual paid holidays and one personal holiday
• Ability to earn up to 104 hours of paid annual leave annually as a new employee with the State of Florida
• Ability to earn up to 104 hours of paid sick leave annually.
• The State of Florida offers health insurance coverage (i.e. individual and family coverage) to eligible employees.
• The State of Florida provides a $25,000 life insurance policy to eligible employees.
• Additional supplemental insurance policies are available for dental, vision, hospital supplement, cancer, etc.
• Tax deferred medical and childcare reimbursement accounts are available.
• Tuition waiver program to attend an approved State of Florida College or University

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree