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ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST I

State of Arizona
Sierra Vista, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 25 Jul 2025
💰 $37,200/yr

About the role

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

REHABILITATION & REENTRY

Our mission is to enhance public safety across Arizona through modern, effective correctional practices and meaningful engagements.

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) is committed to creating a safe, secure, and humane correctional system. With public safety top of mind, ADCRR and its more than 8,000 officers and professional staff are driven by a heart for public service and a commitment to deliver perfect effort each day. ADCRR is redefining itself as an agency whose daily work centers on transparency, accountability, and fairness.

ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST I

Job Location:

Address:

Arizona State Prison Complex (ASPC) – Safford - Fort Grant
15500 South Fort Grant Road
Willcox, AZ 85643
https://corrections.az.gov/

Posting Details:

Salary: $37,200.00

Grade: 16

Closing Date: 08/25/2025

Job Summary:

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The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) is looking for an astute and precise problem solver with excellent communication skills. This position is responsible for the compliance of all state, federal, and agency laws, policies, and procedures pertaining to the areas of financial and business office data and its various systems.

Job Duties:

- Enters and verifies financial and other data to provide records, reports, and other information and correspondence in a systematic manner
- Performs routine accounting tasks involving basic numeric calculations
- Enters data in all systems related to job duties
- Examines and verifies fiscal transactions such as billing invoices, accounts payable/receivable, payroll, creating requisitions, and other financial documents
- Keeps records and/or journal entries to include maintenance of financial records, reports, checks and deposits
- Creates, maintains and reconciles spreadsheets
- Investigates and resolves technical issues and account discrepancies
- Prepares correspondence
- Drives on State business
- Performs other duties appropriate to the assignment

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

Knowledge of:
- Principles, concepts, and techniques of government accounting and fiscal management
- Procedures, methods, and office equipment used in statistical record-keeping
- General office procedures
- Computers and various software, including Microsoft Office and Google Suite

Skill in:
- Written and verbal communication
- Prioritizing and organizing tasks
- Operating various office equipment and automated accounting systems
- 10-Key/calculator
- Techniques required to maintain accounting records through automated accounting systems
- Establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships

Ability to:
- Accurately work with numbers and complete mandated reports in required formats
- Adapt to changing priorities and situations
- Research and compile fiscal and statistical information
- Interpret ADCRR policies as they pertain to accounting
- Work in a prison environment

Selective Preference(s):

- One (1) year of experience in governmental accounting practices or one (1) year working in the private sector business field

Pre-Employment Requirements:

Employment is contingent on the selected applicant passing a background investigation and drug test.

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job, then the following requirements apply. Any employee operating a motor vehicle on State business must possess and retain a current, valid class-appropriate driver’s license, complete all required training, and successfully pass all necessary driver’s license record checks. The license must be current, unexpired, and neither revoked nor suspended. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver’s license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete all required driver training. An employee who operates a personally owned vehicle on state business shall maintain the statutorily required liability insurance (see Arizona Administrat

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