Accounting Technician

Accounting Technician

This position is located in the Finance Unit within the Support Services Division in Oklahoma City, OK.

Basic Purpose

Positions in this job family are assigned responsibility for performing paraprofessional technical work involving the maintenance and reporting of financial accounting data. This includes maintenance of appropriate accounts, ledgers, journals, registers, and other financial records, reconciliation of various financial statements and documents, processing of various transactions for payment of invoices or expense vouchers, maintenance and processing of payroll data, and the preparation of routine or standard reports concerning financial operations and data.

Major Work Duties

• Cashier duties to include assisting customers, processing payments, preparing daily deposits, etc. as necessary.
• Process returns for money related issues for criminal history record checks and SDA applications.
• Miscellaneous finance duties as assigned.

Typical Functions

Level Descriptor

This is the career level of this job family where employees are assigned responsibilities at the full performance level for performing technical accounting duties involving the maintenance and reporting of financial accounting data. This includes reviewing and processing moderately complex invoices and other documents for payments, assigning revenues and expenditures to appropriate accounts or functions and posting appropriate records, preparing routine reports and financial statements, posting payroll data to a payroll system, checking accounts for appropriateness and accuracy of entries, and performing routine reconciliation's of accounting data and information.

Education and Experience

Education and Experience required at this level consists of one year of clerical, bookkeeping, or technical accounting experience plus one additional year of experience in performing technical accounting work; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting completion of six semester hours in accounting or bookkeeping at an accredited college or university for each six months of the required experience; or the completion of a vocational training course in accounting for the one year only of the required clerical, bookkeeping or technical accounting experience.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies

Knowledge Skills and Abilities required to perform work at this level include knowledge of accounting procedures and terminology, and of business arithmetic, of modern office methods and procedures. Ability is required in the use of office equipment such as calculators, personal computers or computer keyboards, and copiers; and in the maintenance and reporting of financial accounting data.

Special Requirements

Successful applicants must be willing to submit to a drug screen, polygraph examination, psychological evaluation (commissioned positions only), and a thorough background investigation. Certain events automatically disqualify an applicant, such as, felony conviction; admission of an undetected crime that, if known, would have been a felony charge; failure to pay federal or state income tax; positive confirmed drug urine test; illegal use of a controlled substance within certain time frames.

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.