Controller (Accountant 3)

Initial Posting Date:

12/30/2024

Application Deadline:

01/13/2025

Agency:

Oregon Department of Emergency Management

Salary Range:

$5,746 - $8,831

Position Type:

Employee

Position Title:

Controller (Accountant 3)

Job Description:

The Oregon Department of Emergency Management (OEM) is excited to announce a new opportunity for a Controller (Accountant 3) to join our team! We welcome you to join us today!

Effective Jan. 1, 2025, the compensation plan for this position will be adjusted to reflect a Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) of 6.55%. The salary listed in this posting does not reflect the COLA.

General duties:

• Provide accounting senior level expertise and assure the accounting structures, internal controls, data integrity and financial reporting meet the needs of OEM, its programs, customers, vendors and partners.
• Assist in conducting technical fiscal functions involving grant accounting and auditing to assure that all financial transactions and reporting comply with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Resolve difficult and unusual accounting problems and ensure system adaptations and corrections as necessary. 
• Coordinate and monitor agency Account Payable (AP) process.
• Collaborate with accounting and program management in decision and policy making sessions.
• Coordinate agency fiscal year-end processes and reporti