Senior Staff Accountant - Supervisory

Location: Augusta,Maine,United States

General Government Service Center 

Senior Staff Accountant - Supervisory 

Opening Date: January 7, 2025

Closing Date:  January 22, 2025

Job Class Code: 0330
Grade: 23
Salary: $51, 937.60 - $73,236.80/Annually
Position Number: 004502601

The General Government Service Center (GGSC) is one of five financial service centers within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services established to provide centralized accounting and budgeting services to agencies across state government.  GGSC serves roughly 30 agencies across the Department of Administrative and Financial Services (including Information Technology, Real Estate, Purchases, Lottery, Alcohol and Marijuana), the Governor’s Office, the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Department of Education, various Cultural Agencies and Boards and Commissions—a mix of government entities that adds variety to standard accounting practices.
 Job Duties:

GGSC is seeking a Senior Staff Accountant who has accounting knowledge to become immediate contributors to our department. Successful candidates will meet the minimum qualifications referenced below. Additionally, successful candidates will have demonstrated knowledge of accounting, fixed assets, cash management, revenue/expenditure monitoring and other routine accounting services. Successful candidates will be skilled in the use of standard desktop technology and demonstrate the ability to follow directions and to work as part of a team or individually with limited supervision. Ideal candidates will have previous government accounting experience, be reliable, possess interpersonal communication skills, have a can-do attitude with a willingness to learn, expand and grow and can demonstrate an appreciation for providing exemplary customer service.  

Sample of Typical Duties:

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

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES 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.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to