Court Fiscal Services Officer

Hawaii State Judiciary; Honolulu (HI); Sur place; USD 85 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Hawaii State Judiciary in Honolulu seeks a Court Fiscal Services Officer (SR-28) to lead fiscal, budget and accounting services for the First Circuit.

You will advise the Deputy/Chief Court Administrator, develop and implement processes, ensure regulatory compliance, and coordinate with officials and external agencies.

This senior role requires accounting expertise, supervisory experience, and the ability to design systems that improve financial controls and reporting.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with at least 12 semester hours in accounting and/or auditing; substitutions may apply.
• Accounting experience: Three and a half years of progressively responsible professional accounting or auditing experience (may include university teaching).
• Supervisory/ Specialist/ Fiscal management experience: professional experience supervising accounting/auditing staff; specialized accounting/auditing work; and involvement in budget and long-range financial planning.

Responsabilités

• Plans, directs, and coordinates fiscal/budget/accounting services for the First Circuit.
• Advises the Deputy/Chief Court Administrator on fiscal/budget/accounting issues and liaises with administration and external agencies.
• Develops and implements systems to evaluate and improve fiscal services; ensures compliance with regulations, policies, and guidelines.

Description du poste

Recruitment Number 26-238JC, Court Fiscal Services Officer, SR-28, Honolulu, Oahu.

Serves as the principal finance officer and fiscal staff consultant for the First Circuit; plans, directs, coordinates, oversees fiscal/budget/accounting services; advises and assists the Deputy/Chief Court Administrator on fiscal/budget/accounting services; provides advisory services and carries out liaison responsibilities with administration, and operating officials and external agencies; develops and implements systems, processes, procedures and functions to evaluate and improve fiscal and accounting services and operations; and participates in the development, evaluation, implementation and modification of policies, procedures and systems to ensure fiscal services and operations are in compliance with regulations, policies, guidelines and requirements.

Education Requirement

Graduation from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a Bachelor's degree, and a minimum of twelve (12) semester credit hours in accounting and/or auditing. Excess administrative, professional, technical or other work experience which has provided a general background of the type and quality described below may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree on a year-for-year basis.

Accounting Experience Requirement

Three and one-half (3-1/2) years of progressively responsible professional accounting or auditing experience which may have included teaching accounting at the university level.

Supervisory, Specialist and/or Fiscal Management Experience Requirement

• Supervisory Experience: Professional work experience supervising others engaged in accounting, auditing, or fiscal control activities which included: (1) planning and directing the work of others; (2) assigning and reviewing their work; (3) advising them on difficult problem areas; (4) timing and scheduling their work; and (5) training and developing new employees.
• Specialist Experience: Professional work experience in a specialized area of accounting (such as systems design, adaptation, installation, evaluation and/or revision or fund control) or in auditing which involved performing work regularly encompassing difficult and complex situations and problems. Such work experience generally involves responsibility for conducting studies and making recommendations to management for the development or revision of standards, policies, or procedures; providing technical advice and direction to management and/or line departments; conducting research for the purpose of implementing or improving accounting/auditing system(s); and/or developing guides to be used by management and/or line departments in the performance of accounting/auditing work.
• Fiscal Management Experience: Professional accounting and/or auditing experience which involved participation in the preparation of budget and the development of long-range financial plans.

Administrative Experience Requirement

One (1) year of responsible experience which involved active participation in and/or major responsibility for the development, management, execution and coordination of policies, program(s), and/or activities.

Substitution of Education for Experience

• A) Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a minimum of twenty-four (24) semester hour credits in accounting subjects may be substituted for one-half (½) year of Accounting Experience.
• B) Possession of a Master’s degree in accounting from an accredited four (4) year college or university may be substituted for two (2) years of Accounting Experience.
• C) A certified Public Accountant (CPA) Certificate obtained through written examination is qualifying for the Education and Accounting Experience requirements.

Note: There are no educational substitutions for the Supervisory, Specialist and/or Fiscal Management and Administrative Experience Requirements.

Education

If you are using education as a substitute for experience, you must submit a copy of your official transcripts or diploma at the time of application. If you are selected, you will need an official transcript (not a copy) indicating the completion of the training or the awarding of the appropriate degree.