Field Auditor​/Trainee​/Trainee ; NY HELPS

Agency Information

Agency: Insurance Fund, State

Title: Field Auditor 1 / Trainee 1/Trainee 2 (NY HELPS)

Occupational Category: Financial, Accounting, Auditing

Salary Grade: 18

Bargaining Unit: PS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)

Salary Range: From $53,764 to $85,138 Annually

Employment Type: Full‑Time

Appointment Type: Permanent

Jurisdictional Class: Competitive Class

Travel Percentage: 50%

Workweek: Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week: 37.5

From: 9 AM

To: 5 PM

Flextime Allowed? No

Mandatory Overtime? No

Compressed Workweek Allowed? No

Telecommuting Allowed? Yes

County: Onondaga

Street Address: 1045 7th North St.

City: Liverpool

State: NY

Zip Code: 13088

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.

Frequent travel is expected.

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.

Appointment to Auditor Trainee 1 (Insurance Premium):

• Reachable on current Civil Service eligible list for this title; OR
• One year of permanent, competitive class service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law. Eligible transfers include, but are not limited to:
  Auditor Trainee 1/Trainee 2 Tax, Budgeting Analyst Trainee 1/Trainee 2, Accountant Trainee 1/Trainee 2.
• A bachelor’s or higher degree in accounting, auditing or taxation; OR
• A bachelor’s or higher degree (in any area) with proof of 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing or taxation courses, and 6 semester credit hours in finance, money and banking, economics, or business.

Appointment to Auditor 1 (Insurance Premium) (SG-18):

• Reachable on current Civil Service eligible list for this title; OR
• One year of permanent, competitive class service in a title eligible for transfer under Section 70.1 of Civil Service Law. Eligible transfers include, but are not limited to:
  Internal Auditor 1, Management Specialist 1, Senior Budgeting Analyst.
• A bachelor's or higher degree (in any area) with proof of 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing or taxation courses, 6 semester credit hours in finance, money and banking, economics or business, AND two years of professional experience in accounting/auditing or financial internal or field auditing (with responsibilities covering the design and/or review, analysis and management of accounting systems, resulting in the preparation of, or recommendations on, financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles).
  
  OR
• A master's or higher degree in accounting, auditing or taxation AND one year of professional experience as described above; OR
• A currently valid Certified Public…