Accountant 2

The Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) is a social and human services agency whose mission is to partner with families and the community to strengthen families and ensure safety for Arizona’s children. The Accountant 2 will perform general cost accounting duties, maintain accurate financial records, analyze financial data, and ensure compliance with accounting standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintains accurate financial records and performs daily and monthly transactions using QuickBooks for clients receiving Social Security Benefits
• Manages and collects outstanding payments from clients: resolve overdue bills, negotiate payment plans, and maintain accurate financial records
• Gathers and compiles complex data and writes reports summarizing financial transactions and status of accounts for a given period
• Reviews and analyzes such fiscal transactions as billings and invoices, payments or other financial documents
• Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards
• Work on various entries and revisions to agency accounts, ledgers, and financial records
• Responsible for identifying relevant insights and compiling analytical reports
• Other duties as assigned as related to the position

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting or a closely related field required
• One year experience as an Accountant 1 or equivalent
• Knowledge of accounts receivable, state debt collection laws, and strong communication and negotiation skills
• Knowledge of QuickBooks
• Knowledge of information systems/databases
• Knowledge of reference materials such as federal regulations, Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS), State Administrative and Accounting Manual (SAAM), Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), applicable agency manuals, policies and procedures and the information contained therein
• Knowledge of fiscal principles and practices
• Knowledge of analysis and reporting of financial data
• Knowledge of principles, concepts, practices, methods and techniques of government accounting
• Knowledge of internal control structures, and fiscal management
• Knowledge of methods and techniques of automated financial systems
• Skills in analysis, interpretation, and communication of financial data
• Skills in maintaining accurate accounting records in QuickBooks and the Arizona Financial System (AZ360)
• Skills in monitoring accounts for overdue payments, negotiating payment plans, and resolving billing issues
• Skills in generating and sending out invoices and following up on past-due balances
• Skills in submitting accounts with several delinquent balances to a third-party collections agency if necessary
• Skills in recording financial transactions
• Skills in reconciling bank statements and monitoring bank transactions
• Skills in compiling and presenting financial reports, such as balance sheets
• Skills in ensuring financial statements and records comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and accounting standards
• Skills in examining financial documents and financial transactions to ensure compliance and rectify any discrepancies
• Skills in assisting management with decision-making by providing financial data and analysis
• Skills in problem solving
• Skills in developing correspondence, reports, and procedures
• Effective verbal and written skills
• Ability to coordinate and resolve inter-departmental problems/issues
• Ability to perform independent research
• Ability to maintain a strong work ethic and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently with little to no supervision
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers
• Ability to organize and maintain files, accurate records, and business processes of optimized workload and productivity
• Ability to work concurrently on multiple tasks and change task/work priorities based on workload and situations
• Ability to recognize potential issues and pro-actively address and solve
• Bachelors in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance or similar

Benefits

• Affordable medical, dental, life, and short-term disability insurance plans
• Top-ranked retirement and long-term disability plans
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Vacation time accrued at 4:00 hours bi-weekly for the first 3 years
• Sick time accrued at 3:42 hours bi-weekly
• Deferred compensation plan
• Wellness plans

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