Associate Accounting Analyst

Work Location

Sacramento County

Job Code #: JC-523916

Position #: -235

Working Title: Consulting Analyst

Classification: ASSOCIATE ACCOUNTING ANALYST

Salary: $6,330.00 - $7,929.00 A

# of Positions: 1

Telework: Hybrid

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Facility: State Accounting and Reporting Division

The Office of the State Controller (SCO) is the destination employer within the State of California. As California’s chief fiscal officer, the Controller’s Office ensures accountability and transparency of California’s financial practices while promoting fairness and opportunity for all. Here, you’ll work in a collaborative and supportive environment with diverse opportunities for professional growth and development. A career with the SCO offers meaningful work that directly impacts the state’s future.

The State Accounting and Reporting Division (SARD) of the California State Controller’s Office plays a crucial role in ensuring the transparency, accuracy, and efficiency of the state’s financial operations. As the backbone of California’s financial reporting, SARD is responsible for preparing and publishing essential financial statements, overseeing the state’s budgetary control, and providing vital fiscal information to policy decision-makers and the public.

• Read, review, and interpret laws and legislation and prepare the necessary accounting transactions to implement the provisions.
• Evaluate and perform analyses of accounting documents issued by staff to ensure that accounting documents are processed and issued per governmental accounting practices and statutory authorization, and they are posted to the proper accounts and are processed within the timeframe specified within the bureau’s guidelines and procedures.
• Maintain accounting control records in dual systems (Legacy and FI$Cal) by establishing, processing, and maintaining funds, general ledger accounts, accounts receivable and payable records, appropriations, receipts, disbursements, and other financial records.
• Review and analyze complex transaction requests from state agencies requesting transfers between or within agencies’ funds and accounts. Determine the legality of requests and sufficiency of cash and appropriation.
• Provide analytical assistance in state accounting areas within the bureau.
• Communicate with accounting personnel from state agencies and the Department of Finance to resolve specific accounting issues and explain rules and procedures.
• Advise state agencies by providing solutions to specific accounting problems that result when an agency’s request cannot be honored due to existing laws and regulations, accounting rules and procedures, or a deficiency in cash or appropriation balances.
• Ensure that all documents are sent timely to all affected agencies.
• Perform analyses of the bureau's processes and forms to identify problems.
• Ensure that the existing procedures meet the requirements of the Legacy System, FI$Cal, and specialized fiscal control accounting records.
• Identify system improvements and errors related to data input.
• Identify discrepancies and/or program deficiencies.
• Meet with bureau management to present findings of analyses and provide recommendations of how specific processes can be improved and operational tasks streamlined.
• Assess training needs of the bureau by evaluating current training materials and resulting products.
• Report findings, recommend changes to bureau management, and revise training materials.
• Develop, schedule, and provide staff training, as needed.
• Per division or section management's request, give presentations and perform special projects by applying accounting and auditing principles and SCO procedures.
• Prepare and present informative updates and training to various groups within and outside the agency.
• As workload permits, participate in discussion and work in other units within the bureau.

• A resume is required.
• Educational Requirement: A copy of your degree, transcripts, or degree evaluation is required for all applications.
• Take the required examination:
  Associate Accounting Analyst Examination.

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