Associate Accountant

Introduction

The State of Connecticut, Department of Transportation (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Bureau of Finance and Administration, Financial Management & Support Division, has a full‑time job opening for an Associate Accountant. This position reports to the Fiscal Administrative Supervisor, Financial Management and Support Division, ROW and Property & Facilities Services Unit.

• Professional growth and development opportunities.
• A healthy work/life balance to all employees.

• Monday - Friday
• Full Time, 40 hours per week
• Location:
  
  Newington
• This position is eligible to apply for telework after successful completion of the working test period, and thereafter, in accordance with the Telework Policy. Learn more about the Telework Policy here.

• Assist the Fiscal Administrator Supervisor (FAS) with complex DOT Rights of Way and property acquisition transactions.
• Provide budget oversight and purchasing of DOT’s Property & Facilities Services (P&FS) annual operating budget of over $11 million.
• Coordinate the procurement of Information Technology purchases totaling over $7million
• Oversee $2.1 million general equipment budget, minor capital budget, and major capital budget.
• Coordinate oversight of agency telecommunication lines
• Lead 2 Accountants, 1 FAO, and 1 FAA.
• Performs other related duties

• Establishes and implements accounting sub-systems such as procedures for paying and collecting activities, procedures for issuance of grants, loans or subsidies, establishment of rates or schedules of fees, establishment of account charts for classification of transactions;
• Maintains fiscal controls by authorizing non-routine expenditures based on management priorities and policies, examining data and making recommendations regarding timing and amounts of expenditures;
• Manages various phases of budget preparation and control such as preparing estimates of costs of existing or new programs, offices or divisions, preparing budget requests, appropriation schedules, monthly budget reports and year end budget reports;
• Administers fiscal aspects of grant programs by reviewing funding applications for approval, researching and preparing estimates of costs of proposed grant programs, interpreting grant contracts for approval of grant expenditures, analyzing grantees financial records and reports for compliance with grant expenditure requirements;
• Monitors fiscal aspects of contract administration by reviewing and interpreting contracts for approval on non-routine expenditures, preparing or approving schedules of fees in regard to specific contracts;
• Determines priorities;
• Provides staff training and assistance;
• Conducts or assists in conducting performance evaluations;
• Acts as liaison with other operating units, agencies and outside officials regarding unit policies and procedures;
• May coordinate unit workflow;
• May assign and review work;
• May establish and maintain unit procedures;
• Performs related duties as required.

• Considerable knowledge of professional accounting principles and practices including governmental accounting and budgeting;
• Interpersonal skills;
• Oral and written communication skills;
• Considerable ability to analyze and evaluate financial records, methods and procedures;
• Devise and install accounting procedures and systems;
• Supervisory ability.

• Seven (7) years of experience in accounting or auditing.

• One (1) year of the General Experience must have been at the level of an Accountant, an Auditor or an Accounts Examiner with responsibility for the exercise of independent analysis and judgement in the application of professional accounting principles and practices.

• College training in accounting or a closely related field 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 four (4) years for a Bachelor's degree.
• A Master's degree in accounting may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the General Experience.
• Certification in any of the…