Financial Specialist ; Finance

Job Title

Finance Professional

Are you a true professional interested in serving the public by upholding the Judiciary's core values of Independence, Integrity, Fairness and Quality Service? The Bergen Vicinage is seeking a meticulous, well organized, finance professional with excellent accounting, analytical, organizational, time management, and interpersonal skills to join the Finance Division team. We are located in the heart of the bustling Hackensack redevelopment district, close to transit options, and provide free parking.

We are looking for candidates with excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong knowledge of internal controls, independent critical thinking skills, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively to meet deadlines. The selected candidate will be responsible to perform various system reconciliations, extracting data from various legacy and web-based systems and utilizing excel to analyze that data and prepare financial reports/spreadsheets.

We believe in continuous cross-training and a team-focused approach with open idea sharing. Regular and predictable physical presence at the worksite is an essential function of this position.

Under the general direction of the Finance Division Manager (Court Executive 2b) or designee, the selected candidate will perform various professional administrative and financial functions including but not limited to:

• Navigate various legacy and proprietary technology systems to extract needed data.
• Prepare technical, statistical, financial, review or evaluation reports.
• Interpret accounting, financial, or statistical data.
• Perform financial and internal control audits.
• Conduct financial audits for accuracy, compliance or legitimacy following standards to maintain security or confidentiality.
• Analyze cases in accordance with existing laws, regulations, or professional practices.
• Ensure compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Review activities for adherence to applicable procedures, administrative directives, and laws/regulations.
• Compiling statistical data on workload volume, unit expenditures, personnel actions, fixed assets, equipment or attendance.
• Coordinating the collection, maintenance and tabulation of accounting, financial or statistical data.
• Performing variance analysis and determining the course of action to correct mis-posts, financial errors, and discrepancies
• Preparing spending projections
• Developing operating budgets
• Processing vendor payments and employee reimbursements
• Recommend improvements in operating procedures, programs, standards, work processes, or administrative practices.
• Participate fully in team or work unit meetings and special projects.
• Provide quality customer service to court users and/or internal customers.
• Function as a liaison and establish positive working relationships with other divisions, vicinages, central office, and external stakeholders.
• Treat all personnel, clients and the public with dignity and respect.

Regular and predictable physical presence at the worksite is an essential function of this position.

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including or supplemented by 21 credit hours in accounting, business administration, economics, public administration, statistics, mathematics, data analytics and/or financial related courses. Six of these credit hours must be in accounting and three years of professional accounting, auditing, budgeting, cash management and/or financial analysis. Substitution:
Applicants who do not possess the required education, but do possess the 21 accounting, business administration, economics, public administration, statistics, mathematics, data analytics and/or financial related courses, including six accounting credit hours, may substitute additional paraprofessional and/or professional experience on a year-for-year basis with one year of such experience being equal to 30 semester hour credits. A master's degree from an accredited college or university in business or public administration, economics, accounting, statistics, mathematics, data analytics or finance may…