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Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Salary Minimum: $36,379.20
Salary Maximum: $53,268.20
Post Close Date: December 21, 2019
Job Description:
This is a courtesy posting for a merit position. Please follow instructions in the “To Apply” section for directions on how to apply for this position.
The Iowa Department for the Blind (IDB) is seeking applicants for an Accounting Technician 2 that will promote IDB’s mission, vision and values through supporting the Adult Orientation Center, Education and Training, and Business Enterprise programs.
Duties and responsibilities to include the following:
Accounting:
- Process interagency transfers according to contract terms.
- Bills other agencies for services provided according to contract terms.
- Maintains multiple tracking reports for federal reports. Assists in reconciliation of costs for various federal programs/grants.
- Responsible for compiling data from the tracking reports for portions of the federal reports.
- Acts as a back up for drawing federal funds from federal grants, and can project the amount needed.
- Processes the cash/check deposits for the department in a timely manner. Enters CR into the I3 accounting system.
- Processes maintenance payments to clients by issuing warrants through the I3 system.
- Mails out the warrants that are received from Department of Administrative Services (DAS).
- Delivers documents to Hoover State Office Building for processing.
Travel Reimbursements:
- Process TDAs in I3 with correct funding to the agency director for approval.
- Issues timely travel advances, if requested.
- Process travel voucher upon return, within two weeks of receipt in Accounting.
- Process Department travel Pcards for payments, generally for out of state travel.
- Audit receipts for non-allowed items and appropriate tip/tax amounts.
- Verify that amounts claimed are beneath the maximum allowances per policy.
- Determine taxable status of meal claims and perform random audits against staff calendar/timesheets, etc.
- Code travel voucher to correcting funding source and objects.
- Enter travel voucher to I3 system for payment.
- Process commercial vendor payments that relate to employees.
Internal Transfers:
- Review monthly billings from EDAS for accuracy.
- Process correction entries to allocate expenses for each federal grant based on individual staff usage.
- Review ICN billing for accuracy and process changes, monitor for changes to be completed and accurately reflected on billing, resolve any outstanding issues regarding work performed or billing problems.
- Prepare RFS documents for required telephone work.
- Track TSB vendor activity and report quarterly.
Budget:
- Provides support with budget entries from beginning to end.
- Run initial reports to compare actuals to prior year budgets and current year allocations.
- Compare salary reports to projected amounts provided in budget letters.
- Figure projected salary allocations for vacant positions and upcoming fiscal years.
- Work with CFO related to changes in the I3 system – input changes, run refreshed reports and provided updated values to deputy director for consideration.
- Finalize reports for the budget package, including final checks to ensure appropriations are accurate.
Essential functions of this position:
- Knowledge of debit and credit concepts as they apply to accounting principles and techniques.
- Knowledge of the information available in various phases of the departmental accounting system, account relationships, and established techniques for compiling and verifying accounting data.
- Knowledge of specific agency programs and the laws, regulations, and procedures established related to accounting for special programs involving matching funds.
- Ability to classify accounting transactions, maintain and reconcile accounts, close accounts and prepare reports and statements.
- Ability to abstract data from established accounts and prepare complete and accurate accounting reports and financial statements.
- Ability to apply and adapt established guidelines and methods to varied accounting transactions.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees and the public.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Graduation from high school or G.E.D. equivalency and four years of clerical accounting experience which involved the compilation, tabulation, examination, verification or recording of financial, statistical or related fiscal programs using elementary bookkeeping principles and practices;
OR
the successful completion of a post-high school vocational/technical, business college, or area community college curriculum in accounting which included concentrated course work equivalent to twenty semester hours (or more) in accounting;
OR
an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting one year of employment in clerical office work for each year of the required education;
It is the policy of the Department for the Blind to conduct background checks on all finalist candidates prior to any offer of employment.
For further information, contact Cheri Myers at 515-250-2936 or Cheri.Myers@blind.state.ia.us
To Apply:
Positions in this class are exempt from the screening and referral requirements of the Iowa Department of Administrative Services – Human Resources Enterprise. Persons who wish to be considered for this position must submit a resume and letter of application to:
Cheri Myers, MBA, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Iowa Department for the Blind
524 4th Street
Des Moines, IA 50309-2364
cheri.myers@blind.state.ia.us
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