PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT SPECIALIST - 43005208

Requisition No: 877840 

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT SPECIALIST - 43005208

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 43005208 

Salary:  $49,839.59 

Posting Closing Date: 06/22/2026 

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*****OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY*****

CLASS TITLE: PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT SPECIALIST

DIVISION: ACCOUNTING & AUDITING

BUREAU: FINANCIAL REPORTING

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

 

High School Diploma or equivalent is required.

 

Additional requirements:

• Experience utilizing, maintaining, and analyzing data.
• Experience with data reconciliation.

• Experience working with Governmental accounting records.

• Experience analyzing information in a structured format, utilizing traditional and/or computer-based tools for data analysis.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications. (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

 

Preferences:

• Four (4) years of experience in accounting or another business-related field. A post-secondary degree in those fields may be used as an alternative for the years of experience on a year-for-year basis.

• Two (2) or more years of professional accounting or auditing experience.

 

Minimum Qualifications for this position include the following REQUIRED ENTRY LEVEL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles. Knowledge of Microsoft Office. Knowledge of internal control concepts. Knowledge of the methods of compiling and analyzing data.

Possess technical knowledge with the ability to apply analytical thinking to solve complex and abstract problems.

Ability to understand, interpret, and apply laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures. Ability to conduct fact-finding research. Ability to utilize problem-solving techniques. Ability to investigate, review, analyze, and evaluate data. Ability to process and organize information logically. Ability to develop and explain educational materials. Ability to analyze and document business processes and recommend changes. Ability to communicate effectively. Ability to work independently. Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

 

SPECIAL NOTES:

This is an in-office Monday through Friday, 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week position with no telework offered.

 

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.

 

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

This is a professional position. It includes responsibilities linked to procedures adopted by the Department, the Division, and the Bureau. The Procedures are of the internal control structure used to provide reasonable assurance that objectives are met. This position shall use, comply with, and if needed, improve these controls and suggest updates to the procedures in the performance of duties. This position will assist the Division and Bureau to efficiently and effectively achieve all operating objectives. This position will also assist in accomplishing the Chief Financial Officer’s constitutional and statutory duties of accounting for state funds.

 

Assists the Division and Bureau in coordinating and conducting the activities involved in designing and conducting research, anal