Accountant Senior - #W3083 (Division of Finance)

Title: Accountant Senior - #W3083 (Division of Finance)

State Role Title: Financial Services Specialist II

Hiring Range: $56,051-$75,000 salary commensurate w/exp.

Pay Band: 5

Agency: Department of Social Services

Location: DSS HOME OFFICE

Agency Website: www.dss.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

At the Virginia Department of Social Services, we put people at the center of everything we do. We believe that every Virginian can live a life of dignity and that all voices, ideas, and experiences contribute greatly to our pursuit of excellence. Inspired by continuous improvement, we commit ourselves to listening, learning, and cultivating environments of trust, respect, and positive engagement. Together, we are mission-driven, eager to achieve, and passionate about bringing the best of who we are to those we serve.

We design and deliver high-quality human services that help Virginians achieve safety, independence, and overall well-being. We are a $2 billion agency – one of the largest in the Commonwealth of Virginia – partnering with 120 local departments of social services and 31 community action agencies, along with faith-based and non-profit organizations, to promote the well-being of children, adults, and families statewide. We proudly serve alongside 1,650 (state) and 12,200 (local) human services professionals throughout the Social Services System, who ensure that thousands of Virginia’s most vulnerable citizens have easy access to the services and benefits available to them.

The Division of Finance (DOF) performs management and oversight of the annual budget and spending for VDSS. It provides guidance for the departments’ financial policies and ensures fiscal compliance with state and federal regulations. The Division of Finance is also responsible for processing financial transactions for VDSS and reporting the results of those transactions to local agencies, field offices, state, and federal entities.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to serve as an Accountant Senior, reporting to the Accounting Manager. This position is critical to agency and the Division of Finance’s General Accounting Section with major functionality in the Accounts Payable Unit. The duties include:

• Adhere to GAAP, State and Federal policies and procedures.
• Independent oversight of the Disbursement Authorization Process performing financial analysis while analyzing, compiling, and preforming data management of signature changes for accurate payment approver, account code and communicating with a diverse population from executive management to staff.
• Serve as oversight administrator for agency travel cards issued, ensuring compliance with business usage, payment management and recommending revoking card privileges of violators.
• Auditing agency 765 travel vouchers, invoices and ATAs to include managing lodging list auditing tool.
• Independently managing the Small Purchase Charge Card system reconciliation process, interacting with charge card holders and supervisors.
• Ensure data files are interfaced for users according to established scheduled and all transactions are coded properly, post without errors, journal transactions cash lines are in balance and prepares journal entry to allocate cost.
• Conduct monthly training sessions for users of the SPCC system, working with General Services and other areas within Finance.
• Create administrative accounting transactions in Cardinal for Office of Children Services, Agency 200, to include auditing and keying travel vouchers, invoices and ATAs, ensuring accuracy in coding, policy interpretation of travel/expenditures regulations and compliance to established internal controls.
• Perform daily FAAS payment interface run, analyzing accounting entries that were created to determine accuracy of system processing, balance of funds and payment document agrees with working papers.
• Process transactions to create monthly LASER invoices and interface into agency’s internal system (FAAS), while resolving all system coding problems.
• Provide direct support to the AP and General Accounting Managers and Controller in producing mandated reports and analyses.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated Ability to apply Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Demonstrated Ability to analyze documents and apply federal, state, and internal policies, while determining and reporting outcomes.
• Extensive knowledge of Accounts Payable policies and procedures working in