Fiscal​/Administrative Assistant

The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) is the Connecticut state government's agricultural experiment station, a state government component that engages in scientific research and public outreach in agriculture and related fields. We are currently seeking two (2) organized, detail-oriented individuals eager to contribute their experience within the Management and Support Services division for the position of Fiscal/Administrative Assistant at our New Haven Campus.

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• A healthy work/life balance to all employees.

• Monday-Friday; 8:00am - 4:30pm
• Full-Time, 40 hours/week, First shift
• Location:
  
  New Haven, CT

The individuals in these roles will be expected to work with a high degree of independence and accountability, exercising sound judgment in interpreting and applying established fiscal and administrative policies, procedures, statutes, and regulations.

In a state agency, facility or institution this class is accountable for performing a combination of basic paraprofessional work, and highly complex clerical work in fiscal and administrative functions.

• Performs paraprofessional level work in fiscal and administrative activities;
• Independently performs bookkeeping and basic accounting activities such as maintaining, balancing, and reconciling an interrelated group of accounts;
• Independently accountable for an accounts receivable or accounts payable process including varied and complex procedures and activities;
• Prepares simple financial statements and assists in preparation of complex financial statements;
• Calculates rates involving complex arithmetical formulas;
• Gathers and consolidates payroll and expenditure data for budget preparation;
• Ensures that expenditures plus encumbrances are within appropriation limits;
• Reviews routine expenditures for compliance with itemized budgets;
• Utilizes EDP systems for financial records and reports;
• Independently performs purchasing functions including preparing and processing purchase orders and requisitions, authorizing routine purchase orders, and preparing requests for proposals;
• Independently prepares renewal or new contracts based on awards;
• Ensures that routine payments are in compliance with contract provisions;
• Performs related duties as required.

• bookkeeping, financial record keeping and basic governmental accounting principles and practices;
• basic procedures of budget preparation and control;
• payroll procedures, purchasing procedures and contract preparation;
• interpersonal skills;
• oral and written communication skills;
• Considerable ability in arithmetic computations;
• Ability to audit financial documents;
• understand and apply statutes and regulations;
• utilize EDP systems for financial management.

Four (4) years of experience in complex clerical work in one or more fiscal/administrative functions such as accounting, accounts examining, budget management, grant administration, payroll, or purchasing.

NOTE:

Complex clerical work is defined as generally routine fiscal/ administrative work, such as financial record keeping or examining, bookkeeping, requisitioning or payroll preparation at or above the level of Financial Clerk. Descriptions of these fiscal/administrative functions are attached

• College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equalling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of two (2) years.
• One (1) year as a Pre-Professional Trainee in fiscal/administrative work may be substituted for the General Experience.

• Experience applying contract or grant payments;
• Experience maintaining, balancing, and reconciling budgets;
• Experience performing budget projections, preparing and processing purchase orders,…