Statewide Accountant I

Role Description

Join the Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA), Division of Business and Finance (DBF), as a Statewide Accountant I and play a vital role in ensuring financial transparency and accountability in state government. This entry-level position applies Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), auditing standards (GAAS), and governmental standards (GASB) in preparing the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and supporting other statutory reporting requirements.

• Research, preparation, and compilation for the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) for the State of Arizona.
• Research, understanding, coordinating and implementation of new Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) pronouncements.
• Recommends enhancements for improvements to accounting and reporting systems, procedures, policies and methods for inclusion in the statewide financial systems or reports.
• Review other assigned professional and/or technical staff recommendations for policy and procedures changes to assure integrity of statewide financial data and consistency in application of statutes and other related laws and/or regulations.
• Composes or reviews other assigned professional and/or technical staff draft correspondence dealing with subject matters in ways that call for considerable discretion, judgment or negotiation, replying to inquiries, presenting and requesting information.
• Maintains currency of accounting theory, practices and law by attending classes, seminars or other educational courses and/or related publications.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of GAAP, GAAS, FASB, GASB and other related publications.
• The principles, concepts, practices, methods and techniques of government accounting, audit methodologies, internal control structures, accountability, and fiscal management.
• Other agencies operations and financial structure.
• Reference materials such as federal regulations, Arizona Revised Statutes, applicable agency manuals including the Department of Administration, General Accounting Office Statewide Accounting and System manuals, policies and procedures and the information contained therein and its applicability to the assigned area.
• Research methodologies, spreadsheet techniques, statistical sampling, quality assurance and final technical report referencing.
• The methods and techniques of development of data processing relating to large financial systems.
• Progressive knowledge of legal requirements impacting area of assignment.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree with a major in accounting from an accredited college or university, OR a Bachelor's degree in a related subject with a minimum of 24 semester hours in accounting courses and an additional 18 hours in business related courses.
• A license as a Certified Public Accountant by the State of Arizona may substitute for the accounting degree.
• If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements apply: Driver’s License Requirements.
• All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

Benefits

• Sick leave.
• Vacation with 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid Parental Leave - Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program).
• Health and dental insurance.
• Retirement plan.
• Life insurance and long-term disability insurance.
• Optional employee benefits include short-term disability insurance, deferred compensation plans, and supplemental life insurance.
• Participation in ASRS Lifetime Benefit Pension Plan after 26 weeks of employment.