Financial Operations Accountant - CFO60083284

nc; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources invites applications for a Financial Operations Accountant in Raleigh, NC. The role performs independent technical work, recording, maintaining, and reporting financial data to the general ledger, and runs financial reports to verify data accuracy.

Responsibilities include analyzing NCFS/IHRPS reports, reconciling payroll and budget data, handling tax entries, and generating NCFS reports for staff weekly, with a standard

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related discipline from an accredited institution with 18 semester hours of accounting.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience may also qualify.
• Experience with NCFS, IHRPS, and government accounting is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyze NCFS and IHRPS reports to oversee and prepare invoices for ~30 contracts.
• Reconcile NC Budget to Actual BD701 and ensure delinquent funds are collected.
• Perform salary reserve research and payroll reconciliations between NCFS and IHRPS.
• Handling sales tax entries and preparing journal vouchers in NCFS.
• Review budget appropriations and cost centers for PA/OM actions submitted by HR.
• Create NCFS reports for departmental staff on a weekly basis.

Skills

BD701 reports

NCFS reports

IHRPS workflow

Journal entries

Sales tax entries

Payroll reconciliations

Budget reporting

Data reconciliation

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting

Tools

NCFS

IHRPS

BOBJ reports

IBIS

Job description

About Us

The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) enriches people's lives through education and stewardship of North Carolina's natural and cultural resources. DNCR manages over 100 locations across the state, including historic sites, museums, state parks, trails, aquariums, the North Carolina Zoo, the Library of North Carolina, the State Archives, the North Carolina Arts Council, the African American Heritage Commission, the American Indian Heritage Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office, the Office of State Archaeology, the Highway Historical Markers program, the North Carolina Land and Water Fund, and the Natural Heritage Program. These programs and places unite North Carolinians, create a shared identity, and provide common ground. For more information, please visit www.dncr.nc.gov. We encourage you to apply to become a part of our team.

Description of Work

The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) Budget and Finance office is looking for a Financial Operations Accountant. This position works independently performing technical work involving the recording, maintenance, and reporting of financial data to the general ledger. This position runs financial reports to analyze data for accuracy and performs reconciliation of data and information.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze various North Carolina Accounting System (NCFS) and Integrated HR Payroll System (IHRPS) financial reports to oversee/prepare invoices for approximately thirty different contracts for reimbursement of temporary and permanent receipt positions. Monitors the NC Budget to Actual Detailed Report (BD701) report to verify receipted salary revenues and expenditures reconcile and ensures divisions collect delinquent funds.
• Ensure established procedures are followed prior to salary reserve use; research salary reserve discrepancies between IHRPS and Integrated Budget Information System (IBIS). Responsible for the medical, monthly, and bi-weekly payroll reconciliations between NCFS and IHRPS.
• Perform sales tax duties.
• Prepare and keys various journal vouchers in NCFS.
• Serve as reviewer for final budget approver for personnel adjustment (PA) and organizational management (OM) actions submitted by HR Managers. To ensure the correct IHRPS cost center codes, order numbers, and fund codes are applied when entering funding data into the IHRPS.
• Prepare and create numerous NCFS reports for departmental staff on a weekly basis.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities/Management Preferences

Please note: Job postings close at 11:59:59 p.m. the night before the listed Posting End Date above.

Recruitment Range: $50,088-$79,000

To receive credit for your work history and credentials, you must provide the information on the application form. Any information omitted from the application form, listed as general statements, listed under the text resume section, or on an attachment will not be considered for qualifying credit.

Candidates meet the minimum qualifications of this position if they meet the minimum education and experience listed on the vacancy announcement. Vacancy specific knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) and/or management preferences are not required. Applicants who possess the following are preferred:

• Demonstrated knowledge of the BD701 report.
• Demonstrated experience running NCFS reports and/or NCFS accounting structure.
• Demonstrated experience with sales tax entries.
• Demonstrated experience keying journal entries into NCFS (keying manually and using the spreadsheet upload feature in NCFS).
• Demonstrated experience with workflow actions in IHRPS and/or BOBJ reports.

Position/Physical Requirements

Typical work schedule is Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm.

This position is deemed eligible for hybrid telework under DNCR's Telework Policy.

Internal State Government Posting - Only current permanent and temporary NC State Government and/or University employees or layoff candidates with the State of North Carolina eligible for RIF priority reemployment consideration as described by G.S. 126 may apply.

Minimum Education and Experience

Some state job postings say you can qualify by an "equivalent combination of education and experience." If that language appears below, then you may qualify through EITHER years of education OR years of directly related experience, OR a combination of both. See the Education and Experience Equivalency Guide for details.

Bachelor's degree in accounting, or a degree in business administration, finance or public administration or a related discipline from an appropriately accredited institution with 18 semester hours of accounting;

or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Division Description

The Budget and Finance Office