Senior Staff Accountant

Department of Marine Resources; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 53,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Defense, Veterans' and Emergency Management in Augusta, ME, is seeking a Senior Staff Accountant to ensure financial integrity and compliance with GAAP, GASB, and applicable regulations.

The role requires advanced governmental accounting, financial reporting, reconciliations, and collaboration with fiscal partners to strengthen internal controls and improve processes. The successful candidate will work with state and federal partners to support sound financial decision-making.

Qualifications

• Advanced professional accounting work involving complex governmental accounting and financial reporting.
• GAAP, GASB standards, and applicable state/federal regulations compliance.
• Independently analyze financial information and develop practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Perform complex reconciliations of financial accounts, expenditures, revenues, encumbrances.
• Investigate discrepancies and initiate corrective actions.
• Analyze nonstandard accounting transactions for proper treatment.
• Prepare and review adjusting journal entries with audit trails.
• Ensure transactions are properly classified and reconciled.

Job description

Department of Defense, Veterans' and Emergency Management

Job Class Code: 0330B

Grade: 23 (Professional/Technical Services)

Salary: $52,659.36 - $73,885.76/Annually *Salary includes 2.25% Stipend

Location: Augusta, ME

Opening Date: November 6, 2026

Closing Date: November 23, 2026

Currently, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or STEM OPT extensions.

DESCRIPTION: The Directorate of Facilities Engineering (DFE) is seeking a highly skilled, analytical, and detail-oriented Senior Staff Accountant to support the financial integrity, accountability, and operational effectiveness of its fiscal operations.

This position performs advanced professional accounting work involving complex governmental accounting, financial reporting, account reconciliation, internal controls, and financial systems management.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring that state and federal financial resources are accurately recorded, appropriately managed, and administered in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) standards, and applicable state and federal regulations.

Working with a high degree of independence, the Senior Staff Accountant will collaborate with financial management, procurement personnel, program managers, and state and federal fiscal partners to identify financial issues, resolve discrepancies, strengthen internal controls, and improve accounting processes.

This position requires an individual who can move beyond routine transaction processing to independently analyze financial information, identify underlying problems, develop practical solutions, and contribute to sound financial decision‑making.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Financial Accounting and Reconciliation

Perform complex reconciliations of financial accounts, expenditures, revenues, encumbrances, and related accounting records.

Investigate discrepancies, determine their underlying causes, and initiate appropriate corrective actions.

Analyze nonstandard and complex accounting transactions to determine appropriate accounting treatment.

Prepare and review adjusting journal entries and other financial corrections while maintaining complete supporting documentation and audit trails.

Ensure accounting transactions are properly classified, supported, recorded, and reconciled.

Identify recurring accounting errors and recommend sustainable solutions to prevent future occurrences.

2. Governmental Accounting and Fiscal Compliance

Apply GAAP, GASB standards, governmental fund accounting principles, and applicable state and federal financial requirements.

Monitor compliance with established accounting policies, fiscal controls, funding restrictions, and reporting requirements.

Review accounting activities to ensure expenditures and revenues are recorded within the appropriate funding sources, accounts, and fiscal periods.

Evaluate complex accounting matters involving multiple funding sources and fiscal restrictions.

Identify potential compliance concerns and recommend corrective measures before they become significant financial or audit findings.

3. Financial Systems and Process Improvement

Utilize the State of Maine's Advantage financial management system to research transactions, analyze financial activity, identify errors, and support accurate financial reporting.

Evaluate existing accounting workflows, procedures, and controls to identify operational weaknesses and opportunities for improvement.

Develop and recommend improvements to accounting processes, reconciliation procedures, reporting tools, and internal controls.

Assist in designing and implementing standardized financial tracking and reporting mechanisms.

Support improvements in financial data accuracy, consistency, documentation, and accessibility.

Coordinate with appropriate fiscal and technical personnel to resolve financial system issues.

4. Budgetary Accounting and Financial Analysis

Analyze appropriations, allotments, expenditures, encumbrances, and available financial resources.

Prepare and interpret financial reports to support budget monitoring, financial planning, and management decisions.

Assist with cash forecasts, expenditure projections, revenue estimates, and funding analyses.

Identify emerging financial trends, funding constraints, and potential budgetary issues.

Support the development and reconciliation of financial information necessary for budget orders, financial orders, and other funding actions.

Communicate financial findings clearly and provide recommendations to management.

5. State and Federal Financial Coordination

Support the accounting and financial