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Location: Des Moines, IA
Salary Minimum: $37,148.80
Salary Maximum: $54,392.00
Job Type: Full-time
Agency: 131 Iowa Department for the Blind
Job Number: 21-02100
Post Close Date: March 7, 2021
Point of Contact: Cheri Myers
To Apply: Applicants for this position must complete the online application. Applicants may attach a resume and cover letter when completing the application online.
Job Description:
Candidates must follow the instructions in the "To Apply" section.
Positions in this class are exempt from the screening and referral requirements of the Iowa Department of Administrative Services - Human Resources Enterprise.
The Iowa Department for the Blind has a vision to be the world’s leader in blind rehabilitation services. We believe in responsibility, respect, integrity, teamwork and leadership. The Accounting Technician 2 will serve as the day-to-day support for all financial and accounting matters within the Department for the Blind. This includes ensuring all proper accounting practices, laws, and IDB procedures are being followed for financial transactions under the subject matter of the Department for the Blind. This position includes processing payment documents and reimbursement documents, reconciling, depositing, and processing all Department for the Blind’s financial transactions. The Accounting Technician 2 is an integral part of the IDB accounting them that works to ensure that all IDB Units and their 80 plus staff members are compliant with required and best accounting practices and procedures and laws related to IDB financial matters. Ideal candidates will possess a strong accounting skills and a belief in the capacity of blind persons.
Contributing to our Mission:
With nearly 80 employees, we’re all “one team” at the Iowa Department for the Blind. Our main goal is to empower blind Iowans to be gainfully employed and live independently. As a member of our team, you’ll play a vital role in providing blind rehabilitation services in our state.
What You Bring to Us:
- A cooperative, supportive, teamwork mentality.
- An interest in developing new skills.
- Attention to detail.
- A commitment to excellence in customer service.
- A professional background in accounting.
- Experience in auditing complex financial data across multiple financial software systems.
- Analytical expertise to review, research, financial transactions and financial inconstancies.
- Experience with researching, reviewing, and pulling financial data from different software.
- Comfort in cash handling and processing.
Benefits & Perks:
- IDB’s employment benefits are among the best with competitive total rewards package. As a benefits-eligible State of Iowa employee, your bi-weekly paycheck is just a part of your total compensation package. Being part of the IDB team means you're eligible for a wide range of benefits:
- Strive to provide work/life balance
- A workplace that promotes health and well-being
- Career growth training and promotional opportunities
- Accrued vacation, sick leave and nine fixed holidays
- Health and dental insurance
- Life and long-term disability insurance
- Employer paid basic life insurance $20,000
- Employer provided accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Vision care discount program
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Iowa Public Employee Retirement System (IPERS)
- Retirement Investors Club (RIC) - voluntary retirement savings program
- Corporate partner discounts (cell phone services, gym memberships, event tickets, etc.)
Your Responsibilities:
- Processes all payment documents and reimbursement documents in the State of Iowa Accounting system.
- Process Pcard payments monthly.
- 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.
- Processes the cash/check deposits for the department in a timely manner. Enters CR into the State of Iowa Accounting system.
- Processes maintenance payments to clients by issuing warrants through the State of Iowa Accounting system.
- Mails out the warrants that are received from Department of Administrative Services (DAS).
- Process TDAs with correct funding to the agency Director for approval.
- Issues timely travel advances, if requested.
- Processes travel voucher within two weeks of receipt in Accounting.
- Process IDB travel Pcards for payments monthly.
- Audit requested travel reimbursements for non-allowed items and appropriate tip/tax amounts.
- Verify meal and lodging requested amounts are beneath the maximum allowances per State policy.
- Code travel vouchers for correct funding source and object.
- Process commercial vendor payments that relate to employees and clients.
- Provide support with budget entries from beginning to end.
- Run initial reports to compare actuals to prior year budgets and current year allocations.
- Figure projected salary allocations for vacant positions and upcoming fiscal years.
- Work with CFO related to changes in the State Accounting system – input changes, run refreshed reports and provide updated values to CFO and IDB Director for consideration.
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.
- Ability to apply personal work attitudes such as honesty, responsibility and trustworthiness required to be a productive employee.
- Works and communicates with internal and external clients, customers and coworkers to meet their needs in a polite, courteous and cooperative manner. Committed to quality service.
- Responds appropriately to supervision. Makes an effort to follow policy and cooperate with supervisors.
- Displays a high level of initiative, effort and commitment towards completing assignments efficiently. Works with minimal supervision. Demonstrates responsible behavior and attentional to detail.
It is the policy of the Department for the Bind to conduct background checks on all finalist candidates prior to any offer of employment.
Additional Qualification Requirements:
Computer skills including Excel
Applicants for this position must complete the online application. Applicants may attach a resume and cover letter when completing the application online. To apply click here.
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;
OR
substituting the successful completion of thirty semester hours or the academic equivalent in a post high school Business, Accounting or closely related curriculum for each year of the required experience;
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any equivalent combination of qualifying education or experience;
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one year of experience as an Accounting Technician 1 in the State of Iowa classified service will be considered as qualifying;
OR
one year of work experience as an Accounting Clerk 3 in the State of Iowa classified service will be considered as qualifying.
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