Accounting Technician

Hiring Agency

Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS)

Accounting Technician for the Office of Financial Services

$4,023 - $5,575 per month

Initial Posting Date: 12/29/2025

Final date to receive applications: 01/06/2026

The Oregon Department of Human Services is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are guided by our Equity North Star and our vision for a positive RiSE organizational culture that advances equity and diversity. We encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQIA2S+ community members, and others to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.

Opportunity Awaits! We're in search of leaders committed to promoting and fostering a diverse and qualified workforce where individuals feel welcome, appreciated, and valued for all they bring to the organization. Are you skilled in applying accounting methods and procedures? Do you possess skills in operating a computer to enter, update, and retrieve fiscal information? Can you track errors and resolve discrepancies in accounting records?

If this position aligns with your skills and career goals, consider taking on a key role in our team as the Accounting Technician for the Office of Financial Service at the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS).

As an Accounting Technician, you will maintain specialized accounting record systems, including checking financial transactions for propriety, resolving errors, balancing accounts and records, and preparing reports. You will work in various OFS units and perform functions that compute, calculate and record financial, statistical, and numerical data to record details of business transactions to maintain accounting records and/or for use in statistical studies.

• Financial Transactions
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  Ensure financial documents are complete, accurate, and have proper authorizations.
• Monitor and give information about fiscal areas, such as federal and state grants, budgets, monthly benefit accounts, contracts, etc.
• Diagram the flow of a transaction through an accounting process using debits and credits to decide if the more complex accounting entries are correct. Review errors and edit to isolate problems and decide how to resolve them.
• Maintain Accounting Records:
  Review and process contested or complicated financial transactions.
• Perform verification of computer uploads to accounting records for accuracy.
• Balance and examine for accuracy, propriety, and reasonableness monthly revenues and expenditures, subsidiary and control accounts, collections, inventory, and other financial information having interrelated accounts.
• Reporting:
  Prepare financial and statistical reports, such as statements of cash receipts and disbursements, accounts payable, accounts receivable, supporting schedules, profit and loss statements, and other detail and summary reports pertinent to the operation of the agency.

• Two years of experience calculating, recording, and maintaining accounting information that must include coding transactions and checking them for propriety, balancing, and resolving discrepancies in computer edits; OR
• One year of experience calculating, recording, and maintaining accounting information that must include coding transactions and checking them for propriety, balancing, and resolving discrepancies in computer edits.
• AND at least 43 quarter (29 semester) credit hours from an accredited college, university, or vocational‑technical school that includes 9 quarter (6 semester) credit hours in accounting. Credit hours must include introductory level accounting courses 1 and 2; OR at least 94 quarter (62 semester) credit hours or an associate degree from an accredited college, university, or vocational‑technical school that includes 12 quarter (8 semester) credit hours in accounting.
  
  Credit hours must include introductory level accounting courses 1 and 2 and may include any additional accounting courses with “accounting” in the title.
• Transcripts are not mandatory during the application process, but you are highly…