FISCAL ACCOUNTS TECHNICIAN II

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Baltimore City

The primary purpose of this position is to reconcile agency accounting systems to fiscal control systems and develop automated spreadsheets, ledgers and reports that will help identify budget trends. Recommendations for adjustments to the agency's budget are made to the Director of Fiscal Services and Chief Financial Officer for the purpose of planning, administering, and executing the Workers' Compensation Commission's budget. This position is also responsible for the day-to-day activities relative to the tracking and projecting of expenditures for the Workers' Compensation Commission. The position performs all accounts payable functions for the agency as well as assists with payroll processing and preparing checks for the daily deposit.

Reconciliation of Accounting Systems
• Reconcile agency accounting systems, research differences, make adjustments as necessary, and maintain an audit trail.
• Review and reconcile monthly reports from the Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
• Design reports to summarize financial data on a periodic basis as well as special reports as needed.
• Assist the Director of Fiscal Services with monthly reporting.
• Review and reclassify agency corporate purchasing card transactions to appropriate subobjects within FMIS.
• Develop and maintain efficient record keeping systems for all expenditure related documents to satisfy internal and external audit requirements.
• Develop and implement internal fiscal procedures for timely processing of staff expense statements and other time sensitive documents.

Expenditure Reconciliation and Projection Reporting
• Prepare expenditure projections and summarize data in reports for the Director of Fiscal Services.
• Recommend accounting adjustments, budget amendments, and supplemental or deficiency budget requests as necessary.

Accounts Payable
• Process vendor invoices and employee expense statements using the Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
• Maintain a spreadsheet of all invoices paid and reconcile this spreadsheet to monthly reports from the FMIS system.

Payroll
• Prepare and enter payroll inputs for employee transactions in the Workday timekeeping system.
• Generate and review reports from the Workday timekeeping system.

Other Duties and Responsibilities
• Opens, date stamps, and distributes all incoming mail for the Fiscal Services Division.
• Prepares and maintains a record of checks for the daily deposit.

Education: Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.

Experience: One year of experience reconciling agency accounting systems to fiscal control systems or developing automated spreadsheets, ledgers and reports using accounting software packages or identifying budget trends and recommending budget realignments.

Note:

1. Candidates may substitute experience calculating and recording financial, statistical or other numerical data may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required education.

2. Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience in Financial Clerical/Finance Technicians classifications or specialty codes in the financial field of work at a rate of one year of military experience for the required experience.

A. Microsoft Excel experience
This position uses Microsoft Excel extensively and advanced experience with Excel is preferred. It is highly preferred that the candidate will have three or more years of advanced Microsoft Excel experience including but not limited to creating spreadsheets from scratch, creating and using pivot tables to analyze data, importing data in various formats, using formulas to summarize and analyze data, creating reports, and creating macros.

B. Accounting training, education, and experience
It is highly preferred that the candidate will have a background in accounting.

Please make sure that you provide sufficient information on your application (and on separate pages, if necessary) to show that you meet the qualifications for this recruitment. All information concerning your qualifications must be submitted by the closing date. We will not consider information submitted after this date. Successful candidates will be ranked as Best Qualified, Better Qualified, or Qualified and placed on the employment (eligible) list for at least one year.

STATE OF MARYLAND BENEFITS

 

If you are unable to apply online, or encounter difficulty attaching required or optional documentation, you may submit via mail or deliver in person. Please be sure to include your name, identification number (Easy ID#) and job announcement number (16-004523-0016) on any documentation to ensure timely processing. Submission of a resume is strongly encouraged.

PLEASE DO NOT FAX OR EMAIL UNSOLICITED DOCUMENTATION

Completed applications, required documentation, and any required addendums may be mailed to:

Workers' Compensation Commission
Attn: Personnel Division
10 E. Baltimore Street, 7th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21202

The MD State Application Form can be found online.

For more information please email wccpers@wcc.state.md.us .

TTY Users: call via Maryland Relay

Workers' Compensation Commission is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of WCC that all persons have equal opportunity and access to employment opportunities, services, and facilities without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or ancestry, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, disability or veteran status.