Senior Staff Accountant

Location: Bangor,Maine,United States

Department of Defense, Veterans' and Emergency Management - Military Bureau - Maine Air National Guard Base 

Job Class Code: 0330
Grade: 23 (Supervisory)
Salary: $50,419 - $68,369
Location: Bangor, ME

Opening Date: May 10, 2024

Closing Date:  May 24, 2024

Do you want to be a part of our nations defense team?  Are you up to the challenge of working with federal, state, and private sector employees preparing budgets, briefing senior leadership on your work, and mentoring supervision, peers and subordinates on how best to spend the funds we receive from tax payers?  If so, this is the job for you.  In this position, you will work to fulfill the 24/7 mission requirements at the 101st Air Refueling Wing in Bangor, Maine and two geographically separated units in South Portland, Maine.  As a rule, this position works under limited supervision, and is expected to recommend decisions and execute tasks necessary to perform financial related work for the two locations. 

Primary responsibilities include:  

• Develops and initiates business and internal accounting controls to ensure proper functioning and accountability of fiscal operations. 
• Designs and enhances agency-specific accounting systems and complex subsystems to respond to changes in requirements and promote sound fiscal management processes. 
• Interprets and applies accounting theory and principles and adapts procedures and reporting techniques to ensure compliance with governing laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures. 
• Reconciles complex accounts, formulates corrections, and adjusts entries; also formulates and recommends system and process changes through evaluation, analysis, and application of accounting theory to eliminate future problems and improve processes, policies, and procedures. 
• Prepares required financial statements, related notes, and disclosures to communicate relevant financial information to concerned parties. 
• Analyzes and interprets complex fiscal and statistical information to identify significant trends and issues and advise agency management. 
• Consults with agency program managers and internal/external financial staff to identify business needs, compliance issues, and reporting requirements; and ensure compliance with state/federal fiscal policies or other special requirements. 

Skills or knowledge required:

• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting theories, principles, methods, and practices.
• Knowledge of governmental accounting and fund accounting, including sources of funds, segregation and display of expenditures and revenues, and budgetary accounting.
• Knowledge of computerized accounting systems and standardized desktop technology.
• Knowledge of supervisory principles, practices, and techniques.
• Ability to develop and recommend significant modifications to accounting systems and policies.
• Ability to analyze nonstandard accounting transactions to decide and initiate appropriate entries.
• Ability to reconcile accounts, initiate corrections, and make adjusting entries.
• Ability to develop and evaluate accounting procedures and controls.
• Ability to prepare expenditure, revenue, and budget status reports; annual financial statements including related notes and disclosures; and narrative and statistical reports.
• Ability to prepare cash forecasts, revenue estimates, and expenditure projections.
• Ability to analyze and interpret fiscal information from reports and explain the implications for agency programs and operations.
• Ability to analyze accounting information to prevent, detect, and correct errors.

Minimum qualifications:

Certification as a CPA, CIA, or CGFM -OR- A Masters Degree from an accredited educational institution in Business Administration -OR- a Bachelors Degree from an accredited educational institution in Accounting (or any Bachelors Degree from an accredited educational institution which includes 18 semester hours of Accounting coursework) and 2 years of professional accounting experience -OR- an Associates Degree from an accredited educational institution in Accounting and 5 years of practical, progressively responsible accounting experience (3 years of which must be at the professional level) -OR- 8 years of practical, progressively responsible accounting experience (4 years of which must be at the professional level).  Accounting coursework must include successful completion of Principles of Accounting I & II, Intermediate Accounting I & II, plus two other accounting-related courses.  E