Accountant V; Systems Oahu

Recruitment Number

25-0365

Department of Accounting & General Services

$6,043 to $7,351 per month (SR-24, Step D to I)

Systems Accounting Branch, Accounting Division, Department of Accounting & General Services

The position is responsible for conducting analyses and participation in the development, implementation, improvement, maintenance, and control of the statewide central accounting system consistent with fiscal control, record‑keeping, and reporting needs of individual departments and the central accounting agency.

• Legal Authorization to Work: State of Hawaii requires all persons seeking employment with the state government to be citizens, nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States, or eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment in the United States.
• Basic
  
  Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited four‑year college or university with at least 12 semester credit hours in accounting and/or auditing subjects.
• Accounting
  
  Experience:
  
  Three and one‑half years of progressively responsible professional accounting or auditing experience, which may have included teaching accounting at the university level.
• Systems Accounting Experience (Two years):
  • A. Experience as a member of a project team for the development and/or implementation of a major integrated accounting system or for the major analysis of existing accounting procedures, operations and subsystems and developing and/or implementing changes to establish a major integrated system.
  • B. Experience that involved responsibility for or participation in the maintenance and control of the accounting system for a large business entity through the analysis and resolution of accounting problems through systems improvements and changes, provision of advice to operations or fund control accountants regarding the system, or establishment of subsystems.
  • C. Other professional accounting or auditing experience involving responsibility for identifying accounting problems and recommending changes and improvements requiring modification of an organization‑wide accounting system.
• Supervisory Aptitude: Demonstration of aptitude or potential for supervisory duties through successful completion of assignments involving supervisory responsibilities or aspects of supervision, such as serving as a group or team leader or completing training courses in supervision with application of supervisory skills, and/or favorable appraisals indicating supervisory potential.

Relevant substitutions as described in the Minimum Qualification Requirements may apply.

The State of Hawai‘i complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. The State of Hawai‘i is an equal‑opportunity employer and applies Veterans Preference and other protected class preferences as required.