Accounting Supervisor; Accountant III

This position is only open to Colorado state residents.

New employees to the State will be paid biweekly. There are 26 biweekly pay periods in a year.

CDOT employees make a difference by providing freedom, connection, and experience to the traveling public, while also keeping them safe. The State of Colorado offers competitive medical, dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending and health savings accounts. The state also offers PERA retirement, great optional PERA plans such as 401K, a generous paid time off package of annual, sick, holiday and other leave, strong career growth, tuition reimbursement and professional development.

Perks include Colorado Employee Assistance Program (CSEAP) counseling, wellness, credit union membership and employee discount program. Some positions may qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

• competitive medical, dental and vision insurance
• life and disability insurance
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• PERA retirement
• great optional PERA plans such as 401K
• generous paid time off package of annual, sick, holiday and other leave
• strong career growth
• tuition reimbursement and professional development
• Colorado Employee Assistance Program (CSEAP) counseling
• wellness
• credit union membership
• employee discount program
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness

CDOT’s strength is our people, and our commitment to our people is to shape, support, and sustain the employee experience, and ultimately, create a supportive workplace where everyone, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, education, disability, socio-economic status, or any other identity, has the opportunity to thrive.

The eligible list created from this announcement may be used to fill current and future vacancies for a period of up to 6 months.

The Accountant III works in the Colorado Department of Transportation's (CDOT's) Center for Accounting within the Division of Accounting and Finance (DAF). The Center of Accounting ensures all financial related transactions for CDOT are recorded in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) and Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS).

The Accountant III serves as an Accounting Unit Supervisor. This position oversees Fixed Assets, Inventory, Reconciliations, interagency transactions, Cash Receipts and Accounts Receivables, Certificates of Participation (COPS), Notes Payable, Bonds, and Project Settlements. The Accountant supports the General Ledger (GL) unit in analyzing, investigating and reconciling high level GL transactions between SAP and CORE. The position monitors the interagency transactions ensuring that all are processed timely and accurately in SAP and CORE and provides backup to the GL supervisor for reviewing/approving all SAP and CORE.

In addition, this position completes the annual physical inventory of fixed assets and ensures the monthly and yearly trial balance reconciliations are complete, ensures daily transactions reconciliations are complete between SAP and CORE, prepares monthly and year-end reconciliations for fixed assets additions/deletions, performs monthly project settlements, ensures all debt related transactions are processed timely and accurately, and ensures CDOT meets all Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) compliances.

Your duties will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Serves as Unit Supervisor over three accounting staff.
• Administers the performance program, providing corrective actions and performance improvement plans when necessary.
• Monitors work for quality control and efficiency.
• Coaches, mentors and trains employees.
• Addresses personnel issues and mediates conflicts.
• Works with supervisor and/or other mentors to improve supervisory/leadership knowledge and skill.
• Implements policies and procedures in a fair and consistent way.

• Ensures the daily transactional reconciliation between SAP and CORE is completed and available for staff to review ensuring all transactions are recorded in both CORE and SAP.
• Investigates, analyzes, reconciles, and corrects high level general ledger balance sheet and income statement transactions and variances between SAP and CORE as designated.
• Ensures all additional reconciliations completed by staff are…