DOC Public Safety Shared Services Center Accountant Supervisor - Accounts Payable Supervisor

Job Requisition ID: 46290 
Closing Date: 04/23/2025
​Agency: Department of Corrections
Class Title: ACCOUNTANT SUPERVISOR - 00135 
Skill Option: None 
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Starting Salary is $5,703 a month. Full Range $5,703- $8,539 a month
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Sangamon
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC062
 

 

This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.

 

All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through the illinois.jobs2web.com website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the SuccessFactors employee career portal.

 

Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.

 

Posting Identification Number 46290  

 

 

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Position Overview

The Illinois Department of Corrections is seeking a detail-oriented individual with accounting experience to serve as an Accountant Supervisor. This position serves as a working supervisor maintaining complex ledgers while assisting with and reviewing the deposit entries into the SAP accounting system. This position also facilitates the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, and the Prisoner Review Board’s accounts receivable and receipt inquiries.  We encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

Essential Functions

• Serves as working supervisor.
• Processes invoices received specific to assigned Shared Services divisions and funds.
• Provides accounting expertise.
• Serves as a liaison between the accounts payable section and designated divisions.
• Compiles data and prepares reports at auditors request.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to completion of four years college, with courses in business administration and accounting.
• Requires two (2) years of professional experience in accounting, external auditing, budgetary planning and control or public accounting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefers at least three (3) years of professional experience applying accounting principles to the processing of invoices in an accounts payable area
• Prefers at least two (2) years of professional experience serving as a supervisor over professional staff.
• Prefers at least three (3) years of professional experience interpreting finance laws and applying them appropriately to the vouchering process.
• Prefers at least three (3) years of professional experience implementing processes and procedures to comply with corrective measures taken to maintain effective accounting practices.
• Prefers at least three (3) years of professional experience reviewing, auditing and approving travel vouchers.
• Prefers working knowledge of the State of Illinois travel regulations.
• Prefers at least three (3) years of experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook and/or similar type of computer programs.
• Prefers the ability to work in a busy office environment.

Condition of Employment

• This position has been found to meet the requirements in section 4A-101 of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act requiring the occupant/employee to file a Statement of Econom