Staff Accountant: Grant & Cash Management

Department of Marine Resources; Augusta (ME); Hybrid; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The Staff Accountant position, located in Augusta, Maine, is a full-time role within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services. The successful candidate will provide accounting, cash management, revenue and expenditure monitoring, and grant reporting in a dynamic state-government environment, with potential partial telework with management approval.

You will reconcile complex accounts, prepare financial information, ensure compliance with GAAP/GASB, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• Education, training, and/or experience in accounting, business administration, financial planning, budgeting, or another related field demonstrating competency in analyzing data and records.
• Knowledge of GAAP/GASB, analyzing accounting data and accounting reconciliations.
• Ability to review, facilitate and implement financial controls across multiple lines of business and systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide accounting, cash management, revenue/expenditure monitoring, reporting, and analysis resulting in accurate grant management.
• Reconcile complex accounts, prepare financial information, formulate corrections and make adjusting entries. Formulate and recommend system and process changes through evaluation, analysis, and application of accounting theory.
• Prepare required financial accounting information in order to properly account for and close out accounts and activities.
• Interpret and apply accounting theory and principles and adapt procedures and reporting techniques in order to ensure compliance with governing laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Work across and with teams to support the work goals and the mission.

Skills

GAAP/GASB knowledge

Accounting data analysis

Accounting reconciliations

Financial controls

Analytical thinking

Education

Accounting/Finance education

Job description

The Staff Accountant position, located in Augusta, Maine, is a full-time role within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services. The successful candidate will provide accounting, cash management, revenue and expenditure monitoring, and grant reporting in a dynamic state-government environment, with potential partial telework with management approval.

You will reconcile complex accounts, prepare financial information, ensure compliance with GAAP/GASB, and collaborate with