Comptroller - Financial Reporting Analyst (Accountant VI)

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General description

Join the Fiscal Management team as a Financial Reporting Analyst (Accountant VI)! Work involves Providing guidance to state agencies in resolving accounting and reporting issues with their general ledger. Research Governmental Accounting Standards Board literature to determine the accounting impact to the state and translating that impact to the agencies through the Annual Financial Report reporting requirements, which may include changes to statewide accounting procedures and systems. The candidate must have the ability to learn new concepts quickly and apply knowledge appropriately in a highly active environment with ever-changing circumstances. Apply today and help the Comptroller’s office keep the Texas economy strong.

This position may be eligible for a flexible/hybrid work schedule if certain conditions are met; working arrangements may change at any time as business necessitates.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience in general financial/accounting, financial reporting, or financial statement auditing experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master’s degree in accounting or advanced degree in other related field (e.g., Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a closely related field).
• Five years of general financial/accounting, financial reporting, or financial statement auditing experience.
• State governmental or higher education accounting/auditing experience.
• Accounting/auditing experience with federal grants, investments, bonds, and/or capital assets.
• Consolidation Financial Reporting experience (multi-company).
• SQL (Structure Query Language) or database experience.

Substitutions

Education requirement may be substituted with up to four (4) years of related experience.

In this role you will:

• Prepares highly complex adjusting entries, ACFR financial statements’ notes, and work products related to the production of the ACFR.
• Assists team leads and supervisor by regularly leading or assisting on projects within the section such as the AFR reporting requirements update and training, implementation of new GASB statements, providing training/mentoring of team members, identifying, and implementing improvements in policies and procedures for FRS tasks, and submitting reports to management on behalf of team lead or supervisor.
• Reviews and analyzes highly complex state agencies’ (e.g., mid-size to large agencies having governmental funds with basis conversion entries, proprietary funds, and federal funds) financial data for accuracy, consistency, appropriateness, and conformity to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or other accounting or reporting guidelines as defined by the Comptroller.
• Provides technical and financial accounting assistance to highly complex state agencies (e.g., mid-size to large agencies having governmental funds with basis conversion entries, proprietary funds, and federal funds) with Uniform Statewide Accounting System (USAS) profiles, T-Code and Object code determination for transaction entry and error correction and assists with running queries/reports to analyze the financial data. Resolves customer issues and makes sound decisions/recommendations based on research and relevant facts.
• Participates in the maintenance of the USAS including the maintenance of various USAS profiles, the annual USAS general ledger close, and agency profile clean-up.

Veterans:

To receive veteran's preference a copy of your DD214 (Member 4) is required.

Veterans, Reservist or Guardsmen with an MOS or additional duties that fall within the essential duties of the job position or other related fields pertaining to the minimum experience requirements may meet the minimum qualifications. All active duty, reservists, guardsmen, and veterans are encouraged to apply if they meet the qualifications for this position. Please call Human Resources, CPA Veterans Liaison at 512-475-3560/800-531-5441 for more information or assistance.

If selected for the position the following must be provided for proof of veterans’ preference:

• Veteran must provide form DD 214
• Surviving Spouse or Orphan must provide DD 1300 or DD 214.

Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) codes that may correspond to the state classification title for this position are listed on the State Auditor’s Office Job Descriptions; click on the occupational category for the position. Additional MOS can be found at the State Auditor’s Office Military Crosswalk Guide. The Texas Veterans Commission provides helpful employment information

Go to: http://www.texasskillstowork.com, http://www.onetonline.org, https://hr.sao.texas.gov/CompensationSystem/JobDescriptions/ or www.careeronestop.org for assistance translating your military experience and training courses into civilian job terms, qualifications/requirements and skill sets.

Important Notes to the Candidate:

Salary is contingent upon qualifications. CPA employees in the same job classification, if selected, will be laterally transferred with no increase in salary. (An example might be an Accounts Examiner III in Revenue Administration who moves to an Accounts Examiner III in the Enforcement division). If you are scheduled for an interview and require any reasonable accommodation in our interview process, please inform the hiring representative who calls you to schedule your interview. Whenever possible, please give the hiring representative sufficient time to consider and respond to your request.

Applications submitted through Work In Texas:

Work In Texas (WIT) applicants must complete the supplemental questions to be considered for the posting. To complete the supplemental questions please go to CAPPS Recruit to register or login and access your profile.

The Comptroller’s Office is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity.