Field Auditor​/Trainee​/Trainee ; NY HELPS

The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) provides Workers’ Compensation Insurance to New York State employers. The Premium Audit Department (PAD) at NYSIF is responsible for ensuring insurance premiums are appropriately determined by employers' applicable payrolls.

Field auditors perform reviews of employers' payrolls, financial and other pertinent records, as well as physical operations, to verify reported payrolls and operations for specified policy periods. This is done in compliance with Workers' Compensation Insurance laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines. Field auditors must apply professional accounting and auditing standards and principles alongside the Workers’ Compensation guidelines.

Reviews are generally conducted in the field, meaning the Auditor is responsible for traveling to the employer’s location or an alternate agreed-upon location, whether it be a conference room, accountant’s office, or personal residence depending on the size of the policyholder. The employer may opt for a virtual interactive video conference where they provide records on their computer screen for the auditor’s review or choose to have the review done remotely by uploading all records to our secure site for the auditor to review and discuss with them thereafter.

However, frequent travel is to be expected for the position.

Auditor trainees will receive a combination of structured training, on-the-job training, and/or practical job performance to gain the knowledge and experience necessary to function at the full performance level.

Employment experience obtained as a Field Auditor at NYSIF is not considered qualifying experience for prospective Certified Public Accountant (CPA) candidates.

• To Auditor Trainee 1 (Insurance Premium):
• A bachelor’s or higher degree in accounting, auditing or taxation.
• To Auditor 1 (Insurance Premium):
• A bachelor’s degree in accounting, auditing, or taxation AND two years of full-time professional accounting, auditing, and/or taxation experience; OR
• A bachelor’s degree or higher including or supplemented by 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, or taxation AND 6 credit hours in finance, money and banking, economics, or business AND two years of full-time professional accounting, auditing, and/or taxation experience; OR
• Certified Public Accountant license and registration issued by New York State; OR
• A master's degree which includes 15 graduate-level semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, and/or taxation AND one year of full-time professional accounting, auditing, and/or taxation experience.

Experience NOT considered qualifying are activities restricted to teaching, bookkeeping, maintaining/auditing payroll records or accounts receivable/accounts payable, or preparing tax returns.

• List appointment:
  Reachable on current Civil Service eligible list for this title.
• Transfer:
  Current New York State employee with one year of permanent competitive class service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 or Section 52.6 of Civil Service Law. Appointments via transfer must not result in a second, consecutive transfer with an advancement of more than two S-grades or one M-grade. Eligible titles include, but are not limited to:
• To Trainee 1:
  Auditor Trainee 1/Trainee 2 Tax, Budgeting Analyst Trainee 1/Trainee 2, Accountant Trainee 1/Trainee 2.
• To journey level:
  Internal Auditor 1, Management Specialist 1, Senr Budgeting Analyst.
• Reinstatement:
  Candidates who have previously held the Auditor 1 (Insurance Premium) title, or a transferable title, may be eligible for consideration for reinstatement.

Please note, candidates in a transferable title may also require the additional qualification of 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, or taxation courses, and 6 semester credit hours in finance, money and banking, economics, or business. Please note that courses such as business law, economics, statistics, and most finance courses, although taken as part of an accounting curriculum, cannot be counted toward the 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, or taxation.

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