SENIOR PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT - 79010014

Florida; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 42,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

State retirement package

Holidays and paid leave

Health insurance

Life insurance

Tuition waiver

Drug-free workplace

Job summary

Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation is seeking a Senior Professional Accountant to oversee cash management, reconciliations, and financial reporting within the agency’s Financial Reporting unit. You will ensure compliance with GAAP, DFS, and governmental accounting standards while supporting accurate accounting processes.

The role requires strong Excel skills and experience reconciling and auditing FLAIR entries, with a background in professional accounting.

Qualifications

• GAAP knowledge and accounting principles are required.
• Proficiency with FLAIR and Excel is expected.
• Ability to research, reconcile and analyze data clearly.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of financial statements for the Financial Reporting unit.
• Support cash management and related reconciliations and reporting duties.
• Help monitor trust fund cash, investments, and related schedules.
• Process revisions and filings in accordance with Florida regulations and agency policies.
• Provide staff support to ensure compliant accounting processes.

Skills

GAAP knowledge

FLAIR

Versa Regulation

Data analysis

Excel

Communication

Education

HS diploma

Bachelor's in accounting

Tools

FLAIR

Job description

Agency

Business and Professional Regulation

Working Title

SENIOR PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT - 79010014

Pay Plan

Career Service

Position Number

79010014

Salary

$1636.98 - $1841.35

Posting Closing Date

10/20/2026

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DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION

DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION

Senior Professional Accountant

Senior Professional Accountant

Our Organization And Mission

License efficiently. Regulate fairly. Florida counts on the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) to ensure important matters are handled well. Responsibilities range from ensuring the safety of food service, maintaining the integrity of real estate transactions, furthering the transparency of condominium governance, and overseeing the qualifications of licensure that ensure work requiring a skilled professional is performed safely and sufficiently. DBPR’s stakeholders include these professionals and their customers alike.

Under the direction of Secretary Melanie S. Griffin, DBPR oversees many of Florida’s professions and industries in the areas above, and many more which can be seen on our website: http://www.myfloridalicense.com/DBPR/.

The Work You Will Do

This position performs professional accounting work within DBPR’s Financial Reporting unit. Majority of this position’s work centers timely cash management and oversight to support agency obligations. The position assists in various recording, reconciliation and reporting functions in the unit. In addition, the position provides assistance and staff support to ensure accurate accounting and business processes are performed in compliance with the standards of the Department (DBPR), the Department of Financial Services (DFS), the Office of the Auditor General, and governmental accounting.

Your Specific Responsibilities

• Assists in the preparation of all financial statements in the Financial Reporting section, through the completion of tasks and activities as assigned by management
• Executes the postage redistribution to applicable boards within agency records timely and accurately. Any resulting vouchers and supporting documentation are filed to ensure appropriate record retention in keeping with agency requirements.
• Review and process redistribution based on Scholarship Tax report received from Division of Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco reflecting updated credit balances approved for allocation to the Department’s participating approved licensed taxpayers, in compliance with 1002.395, Florida Statute
• Support the reconciliation of Consolidated Revolving Account (CRA) activity via the record of revolving fund reimbursements associated with revolving fund disbursements.
• Supports the monitoring and reporting of the status of the Department’s trust fund cash, cash transfers and other required schedules relating to cash balances, investment and interest. Prepare The Daily cash and investment report, investing and disinvesting excess cash balances and posting the necessary accounting entries
• Reconciliation of the Administrative and Travel Revolving Fund. Sample audit of the miscellaneous cash receipt log to ensure checks are deposited with required time frames and recorded in FLAIR
• Other duties, as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of Versa Regulation, FLAIR, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Ability to research, review, reconcile and analyze data.
• Skilled in the use of Excel and ability to communicate effectively and verbally and in writing.
• Knowledge of accounting and auditing principles, theory and concepts.

Minimum Requirements

• High school diploma (or equivalent) and six years of professional accounting experience

Preferred

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in accounting and two years of professional accounting or financial auditing experience; or
• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a business major and 24 semesters of upper-level accounting coursework and two years of professional accounting or financial auditing experience.
• Three years of experience using FLAIR
• Experience reconciling and/or auditing FLAIR entries
• Intermediate experience using Microsoft Excel
• Experience reviewing the daily cash available report and investing or disinvesting excess cash.

Benefits

• State of Florida retirement package: 3% employee contribution required.
• Nine annual paid holidays and one personal holiday
• Ability to earn up to 104 hours of paid annual leave annually as a new employee with the State of Florida
• Ability to earn up to 104 hours of paid sick leave annually.
• The State of Florida offers health insurance coverage (i.e. individual and family coverage) to eligible employees.
• The State of Florida provides a $25,000 life insurance policy to eligible employees.
• Additional supplemental insurance policies are available for dental, vision, hospital supplement, cancer, etc.
• Tax deferred medical and childcare reimbursement accounts are available.
• Tuition waiver program to attend an approved State of Florida College or University

For additional benefit information, please visit the following website: http://www.mybenefits.myflorida.com

Background Screening Requirement

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation requires all job applicants, interns, volunteers and contractors to pass a Level 2 background check as per Chapter 435, Florida Statutes which consists of fingerprinting and a check of local, state, and national law enforcement records. Employees will be retained in the state and national rap back program, providing real-time arrest hit notifications. This check must be completed before you can start working or contracting.

Special Reminders

Male applicants born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion unless they are registered with the Selective Services System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS. For more information, please visit the SSS website: http://www.sss.gov .

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended or deemed ineligible depending on the date of your retirement.

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation values the sacrifices veterans, and their family members have given to our country and support the hiring of returning service members and military spouses.

A candidate for veterans’ preference who believes he or she was not afforded employment preference may file a complaint in accordance with Rule 55A-7.016, F.A.C., with the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Veterans’ Preference Coordinator, 11351 Ulmerton Road, Suite 311, Largo, FL, 33778. The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has also established an email where people can electronically file claims or ask questions. The email is [e-mail].

The Department of Business and Professional Regulation will only hire U. S. citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers. Our agency participates in the E-Verify System which is a federal government electronic database available for employers to use to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE

Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here . All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.