Compliance Officer, Accounting

Employer Compliance Officer

Agency: 290 EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION

Location: Oklahoma City, OK

Work Hours: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Travel: None

Benefits: The State of Oklahoma offers a comprehensive Benefits Packet, including a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.

Position

Summary of Responsibilities:

Conducts and participates in unemployment insurance tax enforcement programs in the Tax Division within OESC's Workforce Services Department; this tax division is responsible for administering the state unemployment insurance tax program mandated by the U.S. Department of Labor in accordance with federal & state law, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.

Essential Functions:

• Review employer's tax documents and make statutory determinations on the employer's SUTA account.
• Counsel appropriate stakeholders on the interpretation of and compliance with the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission Act, Administrative Rules, and correct reporting procedures.
• Balance the tax accounting system to ensure all monies and charges are correctly posted to the taxpayer's account.
• Receive and analyze required employer documentation to ensure compliance with state law, agency & departmental procedures resolving issues of taxpayer's compliance with tax and wage reporting.
• Conduct tax division front-line work and front-line team work as needed with a wide variety of decision-making.
• Maintain the required safety and security protocols associated with the above-mentioned responsibilities.
• Utilize excellent customer-service skills to provide the best results for the multiple activities involved in the tax division work activities and due to the high volume of tax-related questions from stakeholders.
• Determine employer liability for compliance with the OESC Act; assign employers tax numbers; maintain changes in business ownership, address, and liability status; manage employer unemployment insurance (UI) tax accounts and tax accounting records; enforce continued employer compliance with UI tax filing and payment requirements; investigate missing wages for UI claimants denied UI benefits for insufficient wage credits; UI benefit wage charge/reimbursing employer billing;
  
  annual employer UI rate process; make determinations on total/partial successor processes.
• Review and analyze incoming applications for employer's OK Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax Account number, Employer Status Reports, and wage data to determine Unemployment Insurance (UI) tax liability of new, successor, and reinstated employing units according to statutory provisions.
• Prepare account registration documentation & other financial records to ensure that they comply with state law / agency and departmental procedures.
• Research highly complex problems and situations involving business acquisitions and transfers applicable to successor employers.
• Maintain daily accounting history records, audit State Unemployment Tax Act (SUTA) tax accounts and approve, prepare, and post accounting entries to reconcile and maintain accounts.
• Counsel taxpayers on laws and regulations governing SUTA tax obligations & meet these requirements. Audit SUTA tax accounts & certify Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) tax credits with IRS.
• Assist supervisor(s) as needed, prepare correspondence, and complete projects requiring exception handling.
• Follow the required OESC's safety / security protocols.
• On-site attendance is an essential function of the position, as the role requires direct interaction with staff, clients, and on-site office resources.

Valued Knowledge, Skills, Competencies and Abilities:

• Knowledge of a wide variety of different job titles or types of positions across the entire range of employment; spelling, punctuation, and business English; accounting principles and theories; financial statements; computer technology relating to accounting systems; modern office methods and procedures; and maintenance of complex records.
• Skill and
  
  Competencies:
  
  excellent verbal and written communication.