ACCOUNTANT 4
CENTRAL LOUISIANA HUMAN SERVICES DISTRICT
CLHSD oversees delivery of mental health, substance use and intellectual and developmental disability services in our 8-parish area: Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, LaSalle, Rapides, Vernon and Winn.
Job# 205408 Position# 50673754
This position is located in our Fiscal Department.
Selected Preferred Competencies:
- Accepting Direction: The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.
- Acting Decisively: The ability to make decisions quickly and effectively.
- Acting with Ethics and Integrity: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources.
- Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.
- Following Policies and Procedures: The ability to comply with policies and procedures of the organization as well as State Civil Service rules, and all applicable federal and state laws.
- Leading Effective Teams: The ability to guide and motivate a team to create, plan for, and achieve goals.
- Solving Problems: The ability to discover solutions to problems.
- Thinking Critically: The ability to objectively question, analyze, interpret, and evaluate information to form a conclusion.
- Thinking Strategically: The ability to generate insights and identify opportunities for future growth of the organization.
- Working with Financial Information: The ability to use financial data to guide, drive, and convey the financial standing and/or outlook of an organization.
You must include all relevant education and experience on your official State application. You must describe your actual duties as you will not be qualified based on job title alone. A resume upload will NOT populate your information into your application. Work experience left off your electronic application or only included in an attached resume is not eligible to receive credit.
All prospective new hires are required to pass a drug screening and a criminal background check.
All prospective new hires will be subjected to employment eligibility verification via the federal government's E-Verify system.
Applicants will be asked to serve a probationary period of not less than 12 months and not more than 24 months.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
For further information about this vacancy contact:
Shawanda Gordon
CLHSD / Human Resources Specialist
Shawanda.Gordon@clahsd.orgRequirements
Six years of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking; OR
Six years of full-time experience in any field plus twenty-four semester hours in accounting plus three years of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking; OR
A bachelor’s degree with twenty-four semester hours in accounting plus three years of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking; OR
A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, management, economics, or statistics plus three years of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking; OR
An advanced degree in accounting, finance, business administration, management, economics, quantitative methods, or statistics plus two years of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking; OR
Possession of a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license plus one year of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking.
Qualifications
To provide specialized professional accounting services to an agency.
LEVEL OF WORK:
Advanced
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Generally from an Accountant Manager or higher-level fiscal/administrative position.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
May supervise one lower level fiscal professional.
LOCATION OF WORK:
May be used by all state agencies.
JOB DISTINCTIONS:
Differs from Accountant 3 by the presence of serving as a technical specialist over assigned programs.
Differs from Accountant Supervisors and Managers by the absence of direct supervision of required Accounting subordinates.
Prepares required financial statements and fiscal reports which include the compilation and analysis of data for monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
Communicates with public and private accountants; state, federal, and independent auditors; banks; brokerage firms; program or management personnel; and vendors for the purpose of providing information and technical assistance needed to resolve problems.
Maintains cash management records, including funds drawn and received, funds disbursed by sources, deposits of funds, issuance of refunds, and classifies revenue as to sources of funding and expenditures as to their nature.
Prepares, monitors, reconciles, audits, and forecasts revenues, expenditures, and budgets.
Reviews and approves purchases and contracts.
Participates in the development of new accounting techniques in the design and implementation of accounting subsystems, compilation of manuals for accounting and computer application, and preparing managerial reports.
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