ACCOUNTANT III - 43000047

*****OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY*****
DIVISION: OFFICE OF FINANCE & BUDGET
BUREAU: FINANCIAL SERVICES 

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON
SPECIAL NOTES:

High School diploma or its equivalent is required.

 

Preferences: 

• Experience with Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and Outlook. 
• Two (2) years of professional bookkeeping/accounting experience
• MyFloridaMarketPlace, Purchasing Card “Works”, State (STMS) Travel Knowledge
• Disbursement experience in FLAIR.
• An associate degree from an accredited college.

 

The work hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.

 

The salary range for this position is $33,759.69 - $67,446.96. Anticipated hiring salary will be based upon experience.

 

Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle.

 

This position requires a security background check, including fingerprint as a condition of employment.

 

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process.
 
Minimum Qualifications for this position include the following REQUIRED ENTRY LEVEL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge and skills in Florida Accounting Information Resource (FLAIR) & Management Reporting Environment (MRE) Warehouse
• Knowledge and skills in My Florida Marketplace (MFMP) as it relates to accounting roles
• Knowledge and ability to use mathematics, numbers and their operations and relationships with the business purpose
• Knowledge and skills in information gathering knowing how to find information and identify essential information.
• Knowledge and skills to problem solving and identify the nature of the problems
• Knowledge and ability to research Florida Statues and Florida Administrative Code
• Knowledge and Skills to work within MS Excel & MS Word
• Ability to plan and organize work assignments Ability to prepare and maintain a variety of accounting records. 
• Ability to communicate effectively with others both verbally and in writing
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationship with others
• Knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and procedures.
• Knowledge of the methods of data collection.
• Ability to determine work priorities and ensure proper completion of work assignments 
• Ability to analyze and interpret accounting data. 
• Ability to work independently with intermediate level of direction. 
• Skills in ability to use mathematics; numbers, functions, operations and relate them with the business purpose.

 

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

This accounting position is in the Bureau of Financial Services, Disbursements Unit and is Intermediate level work, performing a range of encumbered and unencumbered disbursement assignments independently under limited supervision.

The work requires applying a general knowledge of