Accountant III - Honolulu, Oahu

Position Specific Description

Recruitment Number 26-085JC, Accountant III, SR-20, Honolulu, Oahu.

Independently performs professional accounting work; analyzes fiscal data; maintains and/or develops segments of accounting systems; and performs other duties as required.

• Education Requirement:
  Graduation from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a Bachelor's degree, and a minimum of twelve (12) semester hours in accounting and/or auditing.
• Accounting
  
  Experience:
  
  One and one-half (1-1/2) years of professional accounting or auditing experience, which may have included the teaching of accounting at the university level.

• Bookkeeper or minor accounting or clerical positions.
• Accounting or bookkeeping machine operators.
• Office managers or owners of businesses who supervise accountants, auditors or bookkeepers, but do not participate in the accounting or auditing work with responsibility for its technical adequacy.
• Positions concerned with taxation matters not requiring the application of generally accepted accounting and auditing principles.

• Professional accounting or auditing experience.
• Professional, analytical or administrative experience which did not require the knowledge and application of accounting and/or auditing principles and practices may be substituted for the Education Requirement, providing the applicant can show that he/she has successfully completed at least twelve (12) semester credit hours in accounting and/or auditing subjects from an accredited college or university.
• Responsible experience which involved maintaining and/or reconciling general journals and general ledger accounts and related books and accounts, and preparing balance sheets, profit and loss statements and related accounting and financial reports; identifying significant changes in account balances and reviewing transactions to identify the actions which caused the changes; conducting accounts examinations including preparing worksheets or reports reflecting the examination made, discrepancies noted, and the corrective entries required to adjust accounts;
  
  and making estimates of operating procedures, and needs requirements for operating budgets. Experience which qualified for substitution must have included the preparation and/or analysis of financial statements and accounting reports.
• Any combination of the above.

• Possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a minimum of twenty-four (24) semester hour credits in accounting subjects may be substituted for one-half (½) year of Accounting Experience.
• Possession of a Master’s degree in accounting from an accredited four (4) year college or university may be substituted for two (2) years of Accounting Experience.
• A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Certificate obtained through written examination is qualifying for the Education and Accounting Experience requirements for the levels I through V.

Any additional information may be attached to your online application, submitted by email to Recruitmentaii.gov, or mailed to the following address:
Hawaii State Judiciary, Human Resources Department, 426 Queen Street, First Floor, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813.

Education:

If you are using education as a substitution for experience, you must submit a copy of your transcript(s) or diploma(s) at the time of application. If you are selected for a position, we will request an official transcript (not a copy) at a later date. The official transcript must indicate completion of the training and/or the awarding of the appropriate degree.

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