SENIOR PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT - 43000280

Requisition No: 867244 

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: SENIOR PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT - 43000280

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 43000280 

Salary:  $52,561.57 - $88,982.08 

Posting Closing Date: 01/01/2026 

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*****INTERNAL AGENCY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY***** 

CLASS TITLE: SENIOR PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT

DIVISION: OFFICE OF FINANCE & BUDGET

BUREAU: FINANCIAL SERVICES

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

 

SPECIAL NOTES:

This is an internal agency employment opportunity for current employees, including OPS, of the Department of Financial Services, the Office of Financial Regulation, and the Office of Insurance Regulation.

 

Preference:

• A post-secondary degree in accounting or business is preferred.

 

Requirements:

• High School diploma or its equivalent
• One (1) year of accounting experience with the State of Florida OR  three (3) years of accounting experience is required.
• FLAIR experience processing revenue transactions.
• Journal Transfer experience processing revenue transactions.
• ACH/Wire processing experience.
• CODA Data Entry Keying Experience.
• Retrieving, Reviewing and Analyzing RDS Reports.
• Retrieving, Reviewing and Analyzing PALM Reports.

 

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

 

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

 

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 of accounting principles, practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of methods of data collection
• Knowledge of spreadsheet applications.
• Knowledge of numbers, their operations and application use. 
• Knowledge and application of information gathering and know difference in essential information collected. 
• Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems to complete duties of position.
• Knowledge of principles and processes involved in business and organizational planning, coordinating and execution. 
• Skill in typing or in the use of keyboard-controlled data input devices.
• Ability to understand written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. 
• Ability to determine work priorities, self-assigns work by priorities, adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions, and ensures proper completion of work assignments.  
• Ability to communicate effectively; both verbally and in writing to convey information.  
• Ability to set up and maintain effective working relationships with others.  
• Ability to critically think and use logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weakness of different approaches. 
• Ability to formulate policies and procedures.  
• Ability to prepare financial reports.  
• Ability to timely and accurately prepare and maintain a variety of accounting records.  
• Ability to timely and accurately analyze and interpret accounting data.  
• Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to an accounting process.
• Ability to work independently.  
• Ability to solve problems and make decisions using sound judgement of the pros and cons of the decision.
• Proficient in Outlook, Word, Excel.