Requisition No: 851142
Agency: Department of Corrections
Working Title: PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT SUPERVISOR-SES
Pay Plan: SES
Position Number: 70015662
Salary: $79,778.14 Annual Rate
Posting Closing Date: 05/09/2025
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***OPEN COMPETITIVE ADVERTISEMENT***
This advertisement is for a SES (Selected Exempt Service) position located at Central Office in Finance and Accounting.
Salary: $79,778.14 Annual Rate
SALARY WILL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CURRENT PAY POLICY.
SPECIFIC DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
This is an administrative accounting/supervisory position that is responsible for the planning, coordination, and direction of the Financial Reporting & Grants Section within the Bureau of Finance and Accounting. This position:
- Ensures the planning, coordination, and completion of the Department’s monthly and fiscal year-end closing process.
- Coordinates various financial reporting and reconciliation activities during the year such as, but not limited to, reconciling FLAIR, reconciling cash receipts and disbursements to Central Accounting cash receipts and disbursements, reconciling property, reconciling, and confirming interfold and interagency transaction balances, monitoring the Trial Balance, and preparing the revolving fund quarterly reports.
- Prepares annual financial forms and supporting schedules for the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and other financial or special reports as needed.
- Sets up and maintains the FLAIR accounting codes and employee vendor codes.
- Evaluates, analyzes, and determines appropriate FLAIR codes, title files, and establishes FLAIR expansion options and set files for effective and accurate reporting.
- Develops and maintains the Department’s chart of accounts.
- Ensures timely and appropriate corrective action is taken to clear errors and reconciliation issues.
- Assists the Area Financial Manager in the implementation of new GASB standards.
- Reviews and approves accounting staff assignments.
- Provides technical assistance and training to Department staff in an effort to prevent errors and reconciliation issues.
- Develops, updates, and implements new and revised processes and procedures as needed for financial reporting and reconciliation of accounts including any modifications or updates to FLAIR or other accounting systems. It includes to explain policies, procedures, and regulations to the members of the Financial Reporting team.
- Plans, directs, monitors, and supervises the grants accounting. It includes the entire fiscal accounting grants operation of the department, with FLAIR, CDC, and the mini and microcomputer supported systems. This position is responsible for establishing, implementing, and monitoring compliance with written policies and procedures, ensures that transactions and grant information are recorded accurately in FLAIR. The direction provided and decisions made by this office have a direct impact on the long range and daily operations of everya ccounting office within the Department. Ensures compliance with GAAP and 215.422 F.S.
- Monitors and reviews grant claims to ensure they are submitted accurately and timely in accordance with funding agency requirements. Reviews and ensure eligibility of grant expenditures. Monitor transactions in the FLAIR accounting system to ensure expenditures are accurately recorded. Maintain documentation to support grant claim processing and compliance with record retention requirements. Monitor to ensure maximation of awarded funds.
- Oversees compilation of the SEFA.
- Organizes, coordinates, and monitors section workflow and operations to achieve established goals and objectives; adjusts workload as necessary to meet work priorities.
- Ensures the FL PALM’s implementation tasks related to the Financial Reporting Section are timely addressed. It includes but not limited to respond internal and external request, testing, training, and update of processes.
- Ensures proper training and supervision of accounting staff.
- Delegates or performs other assignments as needed.
BENEFITS:
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
- Comprehensive health insurance and life insurance with accidental death and dismemberment benefits.
- Supplemental Dental, Vision, Life, Disability and Hospitalization insurance.
- Tuition-Free college courses.
- Retirement Plans with the Florida Retirement System:
- Pension Plan (Traditional Retirement Pension Plan)
- Investment Plan (401(K)-Type Retirement Plan)
- Deferred Retirement Option Program (Drop)
- Deferred Compensation
- Recently Retired? Beginning July 1, 2024, there is no longer a reemployment limitation; beginning with the 7th calendar month from the member's distribution date, there are no restrictions on working for an FRS employer. You will not be required to repay any prior distributions, and you may continue receiving distributions from the Investment Plan or Pension Plan without interruption.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Seven (7) or more years of accounting, finance or any other business-related field experience. Postsecondary education may substitute up to four (4) years for the required experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience preparing year-end tasks for the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) reporting.
- Experience preparing year-end tasks for the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (SEFA) reporting.
- Experience creating and/or maintaining the FLAIR Chart of Accounts codes.
- Experience creating accounting entries and reconciling financial information.
- Four (4) or more years of FLAIR experience.
- Experience with FLAIR central/departmental records reconciliation.
- Experience reviewing and maintaining general ledgers' data integrity.
- Experience reporting information on Component Units and/or Custodial Funds.
Support of knowledge, skills, and abilities should be demonstrated on the application, in the education, in the work experience, in the work sample, in the interview and/or during reference checks. If you are interested in this position and meet the above indicated qualification and have the desired education, knowledge, and experience, please submit a State of Florida Application and resume through the People First system. If you experience problems applying on-line, please call the People First Service Center at 1-877-562-7287. Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM EST on the closing date.
The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.
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.
