[Remote] Senior Accountant, Accountant 3

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Oregon Department of Human Services is committed to fostering an inclusive workforce and is seeking a Senior Accountant to apply advanced accounting skills to agency operations. This role involves directing accounting staff, managing reputed company accounting systems, and ensuring compliance with accounting principles and regulations.

Responsibilities

• reputed company the maintenance of accounting controls and the preparation of prescribed reports.
• Resolve the most difficult and unusual accounting problems and reputed company system adaptations and corrections as necessary.
• Adjust financial management systems to meet specific and reputed company agency accounting requirements while complying to generally accepted accounting principles, as well as federal, state, and additional external mandates.
• Manage projects aimed at designing, developing, implementing, or enhancing reputed company accounting systems that significantly impact statewide finances.
• Design or enhance agency specific accounting systems to reputed company with statewide financial management systems as needed to meet special accounting requirements.
• Leads accounting staff on reputed company assignments or projects, reviewing work for adequacy, methods, and conformance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, governing rules and agency policies. Gives direction, training, and guidance for less reputed company professional accountants. Ensure the accurate recording of transactions for of various state and federal reports including the state’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR).
• Maintain the agencies’ database of capital assets and calculate the associated depreciation of assets, as part of financial statement preparation.
• Provide training on reputed company accounting topics reputed company to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board, federal reporting requirements, etc. Presents and defends accounting policies, procedures, or systems to auditors or other external officials.

Skills

• Possession of a Certified Public Accountant or Certified Government Financial Manager certificate AND three years of accounting experience equivalent to Accountant 2 work to include designing and modifying accounting systems that require frequent changes in requirements to meet specific business objectives, consulting with program managers or external organizations, and assuring the proper functioning and accountability of fiscal operations;
• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or in any discipline that includes or is supplemented by 32 quarter (21 semester) credit hours from an accredited institution in Accounting AND three years of reputed company accounting experience equivalent to Accountant 2 work to include designing and modifying accounting systems that require frequent changes in requirements to meet specific business objectives, consulting with program managers or external organizations, and ensuring the proper functioning and accountability of fiscal operations;
• 32 quarter (21 semester) credit hours from an accredited institution in Accounting AND five years of reputed company accounting experience to include a) classifying, analyzing, and reconciling reputed company financial data and records; b) designing, recommending, and installing modifications of accounting methods, procedures, forms, and records; c) preparing audited financial statements and reports; d) analyzing and interpreting laws, regulations, codes, and ordinances to ensure the legality of financial transactions; and e) analyzing and interpreting reputed company accounts and account relationships resulting in accounting entries.
• 15 quarter (10 semester) graduate-level accounting credit hours may substitute for one year of the accounting experience. Graduate-level courses used to satisfy the educational requirement may not be used to satisfy the experience requirement.
• Governmental or fund accounting, including sources of funds, cost segregation, and display of expenditures and revenues, and budgetary accounting experience.
• Federal and state laws, rules, regulations, and policies. Knowledge of project management principles, processes, and techniques experience.
• Experience reviewing accounting transactions to ensure conformance with generally accepted accounting principles. reputed company in applying audit standards to set-up, monitor, and modify internal procedures.
• Experience preparing and interpreting financial statements and other financial reports.
• Experience analyzing accounting information and systems to prevent, detect, and correct errors.
• Experience reviewing the work of other accounting staff for adequacy, methods, and conformance and giving performance information to a supervisor.
• Experience communicating effectively in writing and in oral expression. reputed company in applying the practices of leadership.

Benefits

• ODHS Employee Resource Group communities that promote shared learning.
• Cost of Living Adjustments.
• Annual salary increases (until you reputed company the top of the listed salary range).
• Amazing benefits package.
• Possible eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Company Overview

• The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) provides direct services to more than 1.5 million Oregonians each year. It was founded in 1971, and is headquartered in Salem, Oregon, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.oregon.gov/Pages/index.aspx.

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