Field Auditor 1 / Trainee 1/Trainee 2 (NY HELPS)

Field Auditor

The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) provides Workers' Compensation Insurance to New York State employers. The Premium Audit Department (PAD) at NYSIF is responsible for ensuring insurance premiums are appropriately determined by employers' applicable payrolls.

Field auditors perform reviews of employers' payrolls, financial and other pertinent records, as well as physical operations, to verify reported payrolls and operations for specified policy periods. This is done in compliance with Workers' Compensation Insurance laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines. Field auditors must apply professional accounting and auditing standards and principles alongside the Workers' Compensation guidelines.

Reviews are generally conducted in the field, meaning the Auditor is responsible for traveling to the employer's location or an alternate agreed-upon location, whether it be a conference room, accountant's office, or personal residence depending on the size of the policyholder. The employer may opt for a virtual interactive video conference where they provide records on their computer screen for the auditor's review or choose to have the review done remotely by uploading all records to our secure site for the auditor to review and discuss with them thereafter. However, frequent travel is to be expected for the position.

Auditor trainees will receive a combination of structured training, on-the-job training, and/or practical job performance to gain the knowledge and experience necessary to function at the full performance level.

Employment experience obtained as a Field Auditor at NYSIF is not considered qualifying experience for prospective Certified Public Accountant (CPA) candidates.

For appointment via NY HELPS:

To Auditor Trainee 1 (Insurance Premium): A bachelor's or higher degree in accounting, auditing or taxation.

To Auditor 1 (Insurance Premium): A bachelor's degree in accounting, auditing, or taxation AND two years of full-time professional accounting, auditing, and/or taxation experience; OR A bachelor's degree or higher including or supplemented by 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, or taxation AND 6 credit hours in finance, money and banking, economics, or business AND two years of full-time professional accounting, auditing, and/or taxation experience; OR Certified Public Accountant license and registration issued by New York State; OR A master's degree which includes 15 graduate-level semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, and/or taxation AND one year of full-time professional accounting, auditing, and/or taxation experience.

Experience NOT considered qualifying are activities restricted to teaching, bookkeeping, maintaining/auditing payroll records or accounts receivable/accounts payable, or preparing tax returns.

For competitive appointment:

List appointment: Reachable on current Civil Service eligible list for this title.

Transfer: Current New York State employee with one year of permanent competitive class service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 or Section 52.6 of Civil Service Law. Appointments via transfer must not result in a second, consecutive transfer with an advancement of more than two S-grades or one M-grade. Eligible titles include, but are not limited to:

o To Trainee 1: Auditor Trainee 1/Trainee 2 Tax, Budgeting Analyst Trainee 1/Trainee 2, Accountant Trainee 1/Trainee 2.

o To journey level: Internal Auditor 1, Management Specialist 1, Senr Budgeting Analyst.

Reinstatement: Candidates who have previously held the Auditor 1 (Insurance Premium) title, or a transferable title, may be eligible for consideration for reinstatement.

This position requires frequent travel; you are required to maintain a valid driver's license and personal vehicle while employed in this position.

Please be advised that the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) does not offer sponsorship for employment visas to employees or potential employees. Candidates sponsored for employment by an organization should be aware of their sponsorship status and the relevant expiration date(s) of that sponsorship before applying to this position. NYSIF is not currently enrolled in eVerify, which is a requirement for certain types of employment verifications.

Official Civil Service Title: Auditor 1 (Insurance Premium)

There is rarely any overnight travel. As it is a field position you are required to have a reliable vehicle as we do not provide one for you. You would be reimbursed at the federal mileage rate, currently $0.70 per mile for all business miles starting from the time you leave until the time you return home.

Please note, applicants who are eligible via 70.1 transfer may also need to meet additional special requirements to be eligible for appointment to the journey level title.

For new State employees appointed to graded positions, the annual salary is the hiring rate (beginning of the Salary Range) of the position. Promotion salaries are calculated by the NYS Office of the State Comptroller in accordance with NYS Civil Service Law, OSC Payroll rules and regulations and negotiated union contracts.

Fringe Benefits:

Competitive compensation

Future career growth potential

Open and supportive team-based environment

Plentiful vacation, personal, and sick time off

Paid state and federal holidays

Affordable health insurance plans

Dental and vision benefits provided at no additional cost

Retirement options

Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

Possibility of telecommuting, flextime, and Alternative Work Schedules (AWS)

NY HELPS Program:

This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS).

For the duration of the NY HELPS Program, this title may be filled via a non-competitive appointment, which means no examination is required but all candidates must meet the minimum qualifications of the title for which they apply.

At a future date, it is expected employees hired under NY HELPS will have their non-competitive employment status converted to competitive status, without having to compete in an examination. Employees will then be afforded with all the same rights and privileges of competitive class employees of New York State. While serving permanently in a NY HELPS title, employees may take part in any promotion examination for which they are qualified.

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