Assistant Accountant; Hybrid - AR

Introduction

Bring your expertise in clerical accounting and financial review to a role where your independent skills in bookkeeping and record examination make a real impact on accurate financial operations. The State of Connecticut, Teachers’ Retirement Board (TRB) is recruiting for a full‑time Assistant Accountant.

• Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday
• First Shift, 165 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT 06106
• Hybrid telework available after successful completion of initial training

The Assistant Accountant serves as a liaison between school district reporting entities and the agency, providing customer service to teachers throughout the state in support of the administration of the pension system. Additional duties may include auditing, reconciling, accounts payable, and 1099 reporting.

The State of Connecticut, Teachers’ Retirement Board (TRB) administers retirement and health benefits to the State’s retired teachers, their survivors, and beneficiaries. The TRB maintains over 52,900 active accounts and provides approximately $2.2 B in pension payments to 39,650 retirees annually.

• Maintains an interrelated group of accounts including classifying and recording transactions, taking trial balances and reconciling accounts.
• Prepares simple financial statements.
• Assists in preparation of complex financial statements.
• Examines financial documents to ensure accuracy and conformance with requirements by reviewing related records, provisions and/or regulations.
• Maintains accounts receivable including preparing and processing billings, maintaining related accounts, managing accounts receivable, making and recording adjustments, cancellations or remissions and computing interest due and penalties.
• Calculates rates involving complex arithmetical formulas.
• Responsible for accounts payable including maintaining disbursement records, distributing charges to proper accounts, encumbering appropriation accounts for purchase orders, authorizing routine expenditures, auditing invoices or payments for accuracy and compliance with state regulations.
• Gathers and consolidates payroll and expenditure data to facilitate budget preparation.
• Ensures expenditures plus encumbrances are within appropriation limits.
• Ensures routine payments are in compliance with contract provisions.
• Performs related duties as required.

• Knowledge of bookkeeping and financial record keeping principles and practices.
• Basic governmental accounting principles and practices including general accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable and budget control.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Considerable arithmetical ability.
• Auditing ability.
• Ability to understand and apply statutes and regulations.
• Utilize electronic data processing (EDP) systems for financial information.

Four (4) years of experience in complex clerical accounting or financial examining work. Complex clerical accounting or examining work is interpreted as independent responsibility for generally routine bookkeeping, financial record keeping or financial record examining at the level of a Financial Clerk.

College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equaling one‑half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of two (2) years. One (1) year as a Pre‑Professional Trainee in an accounting class may be substituted for the General Experience.

• Experience with financial systems, such as People Soft or Core‑CT.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, including creating pivot tables and utilizing VLOOKUP functions and queries.
• Experience in accounting, including auditing accounts, performing reconciliations, analyzing and calculating financial data.
• Experience interpreting and applying statutes and regulations.
• Experience with both oral and written communication.
• Experience in customer service within a call center environment.

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.