Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Oregon Department of Human Services is committed to fostering an inclusive workforce and is seeking a Senior Accountant to apply advanced accounting skills to agency operations. This role involves directing accounting staff, managing complex accounting systems, and ensuring compliance with accounting principles and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the maintenance of accounting controls and the preparation of prescribed reports.
• Resolve the most difficult and unusual accounting problems and make system adaptations and corrections as necessary.
• Adjust financial management systems to meet specific and complex agency accounting requirements while complying to generally accepted accounting principles, as well as federal, state, and additional external mandates.
• Manage projects aimed at designing, developing, implementing, or enhancing complex accounting systems that significantly impact statewide finances.
• Design or enhance agency specific accounting systems to interface with statewide financial management systems as needed to meet special accounting requirements.
• Leads accounting staff on complex assignments or projects, reviewing work for adequacy, methods, and conformance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, governing rules and agency policies. Gives direction, training, and guidance for less experienced professional accountants. Ensure the accurate recording of transactions for of various state and federal reports including the state’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR).
• Maintain the agencies’ database of capital assets and calculate the associated depreciation of assets, as part of financial statement preparation.
• Provide training on complex accounting topics related to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board, federal reporting requirements, etc. Presents and defends accounting policies, procedures, or systems to auditors or other external officials.

Skills

• Possession of a Certified Public Accountant or Certified Government Financial Manager certificate AND three years of accounting experience equivalent to Accountant 2 work to include designing and modifying accounting systems that require frequent changes in requirements to meet specific business objectives, consulting with program managers or external organizations, and assuring the proper functioning and accountability of fiscal operations;
• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or in any discipline that includes or is supplemented by 32 quarter (21 semester) credit hours from an accredited institution in Accounting AND three years of related accounting experience equivalent to Accountant 2 work to include designing and modifying accounting systems that require frequent changes in requirements to meet specific business objectives, consulting with program managers or external organizations, and ensuring the proper functioning and accountability of fiscal operations;
• 32 quarter (21 semester) credit hours from an accredited institution in Accounting AND five years of related accounting experience to include a) classifying, analyzing, and reconciling complex financial data and records; b) designing, recommending, and installing modifications of accounting methods, procedures, forms, and records; c) preparing audited financial statements and reports; d) analyzing and interpreting laws, regulations, codes, and ordinances to ensure the legality of financial transactions; and e) analyzing and interpreting complex accounts and account relationships resulting in accounting entries.
• 15 quarter (10 semester) graduate-level accounting credit hours may substitute for one year of the accounting experience. Graduate-level courses used to satisfy the educational requirement may not be used to satisfy the experience requirement.
• Governmental or fund accounting, including sources of funds, cost segregation, and display of expenditures and revenues, and budgetary accounting experience.
• Federal and state laws, rules, regulations, and policies. Knowledge of project management principles, processes, and techniques experience.
• Experience reviewing accounting transactions to ensure conformance with generally accepted accounting principles. Skill in applying audit standards to set-up, monitor, and modify internal procedures.
• Experience preparing and interpreting financial statements and other financial reports.
• Experience analyzing accounting information and systems to prevent, detect, and correct errors.
• Experience reviewing the work of other accounting staff for adequacy, methods, and conformance and giving performance information to a supervisor.
• Experience communicating effectively in writing and in oral expression. Skill in applying the practices of leadership.

Benefits

• ODHS Employee Resource Group communities that promote shared learning.
• Cost of Living Adjustments.
• Annual salary increases (u