FDC-PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT SPECIALIST -70024836-CENTRAL OFFICE

Requisition No: 839921 

Agency: Department of Corrections

Working Title: FDC-PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT SPECIALIST -70024836-CENTRAL OFFICE

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 70024836 

Salary:  $54,705.30 Annually 

Posting Closing Date: 10/31/2024 

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***OPEN COMPETITIVE ADVERTISEMENT***

Professional Accountant Specialist – 70024836

 

This advertisement is for a Career Service position located at Central Office in Finance and Accounting.

 

Salary: $54,705.30 Annually 

 

SALARY WILL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CURRENT PAY POLICY.

 

SPECIFIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This position is responsible for analyzing and monitoring the Bureau of Finance and Accounting’s disbursements and accounting processes and related accounting activities, in addition to providing guidance to F&A staff and post audit reports to F&A management. This position acts as a lead accountant under the Quality Assurance Section.
• This position is responsible for analyzing, monitoring, and producing reports on disbursement and accounting processes.  This includes tasks such as: performing periodic review and analysis of operations to ascertain adequacy of internal controls and timely, accurate and adequate services; inspecting, reviewing, and examining activities for operational efficiency, compliance with statutes, administrative codes, procedures, and policies; devising and checking methods used to maintain records; preparing, analyzing, and presenting related monthly or quarterly reports; reviewing programs, services, forms and reports, and conferring with management and users to identify problems and improvements; recommending methods, techniques and procedures to improve operations.
• Develop, maintain, and deploy an effective quality assurance review program on disbursement and accounting activities.  This includes tasks such as: assessing quality of products and services; developing an effective quality examination program; determining scope of audit necessary for evaluating soundness, adequacy and application of controls; collecting pertinent data for determining adequacy of and compliance with management policies, systems directives and procedures; performing audit steps to include report analysis, source data examination and tests to detect inadequate controls and unusual or significant trends; ensuring adequate separation of duties; establishing audit files and preparing work papers in sufficient detail to reveal nature and extent of work performed and to substantiate findings and recommendations; and delivering audit findings to management by means of spreadsheets, reports, surveys, analysis and briefings.

Specific duties are:

• Conduct monthly post audits on a sample of vendor payments to include MFMP, Works, STMS, Contracts, and FLAIR invoices.
• Conducts training for new staff in Accounts Payable and Disaster Recovery sections.
• Coordination with Florida Palm liaisons to create PALM trainings, and PALM job aids. Will also be responsible for conducting internal PALM trainings.
• Assist in managing the Bureau’s procedures, working with the units to update or create procedures.
• Assist with agency designated projects as directed by supervisors.
• Work with sections to create and conduct training as directed by supervisors.
• Assist in responding to DFS Post Audit and Duplicate Payment inquiries.
• Analyze data and create management reports for review and audit purposes.
• Create and manage the Bureau’s compliance dashboards.
• Monitor and posts payment compliance reports.
• Performs other duties as required.

 

BENEFITS:

• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
• Comprehensive health insurance and life insurance with accidental death and dismemberment benefi