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Auditor 1 (Tax) / Auditor Trainee 1 (Tax) / Auditor Trainee 2 (Tax) (NY HELPS)

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Base pay range: $53,764.00/yr - $66,951.00/yr

This range is provided by New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Minimum Qualifications

This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS). For the duration of the NY HELPS Program, this title may be filled via a non‑competitive appointment, which means no examination is required but all candidates must meet the minimum qualifications of the title for which they apply. At a future date, it is expected employees hired under NY HELPS will have their non‑competitive employment status converted to competitive status, without having to compete in an examination.

Employees will then be afforded with all of the same rights and privileges of competitive class employees of New York State. While serving permanently in an NY HELPS title, employees may take part in any promotion examination for which they are qualified.

Note: The ability to fill this position is subject to DOB guidelines for processing personnel transactions. A budget waiver is not required to fill positions via transfer to lateral or downward level positions within the same department or to change line items within the same funding source; or to replace employees who have been terminated during their probationary periods. The selected candidate must be eligible for appointment in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Service Law, Rules, and Regulations.

If mandatory rehiring lists exist for this title, appointment other than reassignment must be made from these lists.

If there are no acceptors from these lists, appointment may be made using the following:

• New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS)
• Employees who are currently serving in the same title are eligible for reassignment without change in title or status
• Candidates reachable on the appropriate eligible list for this title and location
• Employees eligible for transfer
• This position may be filled as a two‑year traineeship
• Employees eligible for 55b appointment

Non‑Competitive

Minimum Qualifications:

• Auditor Trainee 1 (Tax):
  • Bachelor’s degree including 24 credits in accounting/auditing/taxation; OR
  • Bachelor’s degree including 18 credit hours in accounting/auditing/taxation AND 6 credits in finance, money and banking, economics, or business.
• Auditor Trainee 2 (Tax):
  • Meet the Trainee 1 minimum qualifications AND 1 year of experience; OR
  • Meet the Trainee 1 minimum qualifications AND a Masters, including 15 credits in accounting/auditing/taxation.
• Auditor 1 (Tax):
  • Meet the Trainee 1 minimum qualifications AND 2 years of experience; OR
  • Meet the Trainee 1 minimum qualifications AND CPA license in NYS; OR
  • Meet the Trainee 1 minimum qualifications AND a Masters, including 15 credits in accounting/auditing/taxation AND 1 year of experience.

* Experience must be gained in any one or combination of the following *

• As an accountant/auditor with responsibility for the full range of professional activities involved in the review, analysis, and management of accounting systems, resulting in the rendering of opinions or recommendations on financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Activities restricted to bookkeeping or preparing tax returns are not considered qualifying.
• As an internal accountant/auditor with responsibility for conducting a full range of financial accounting/auditing activities for an entity. Activities limited to such duties as maintaining and/or auditing payroll records, accounts receivable or accounts payable are not considered qualifying.
• As an accountant with ongoing responsibility for the design, implementation, and review of accounting systems.
• As a professional staff member of a private accounting practice with broad experience in maintaining accounting books and…