Accounting Assistant Technician - Maine Correctional Center, Windham

Accounting Assistant Technician - Maine Correctional Center, Windham.

* ANTICIPATED VACANCY*

Grade 14: $39,396.00 - $56,929.60
(rate includes $.60/hr Institutional Stipend)

Job Class Code: 0310

Open:
October 29, 2026
Close:
November 13, 2026

______________________________________________________________________________

The Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Corrections Service Center is responsible for program accounting, cash management, resident accounts, and revenue/expenditure control for the Maine Department of Corrections (MDOC) that support six adult facilities and one youth facility. These facilities keep our communities safer by reducing harm through supportive intervention, empowering change, and restoring lives.

As an Accounting Assistant Technician at the DAFS Corrections Service Center (CSC) located in Windham doing work for the Maine Correctional Center (MCC), you will work closely with agency personnel and the CSC Accounting Analyst for MCC.

This is paraprofessional support work involving the application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) guidelines in independently maintaining non-complex accounts within an established accounting system or assisting senior accounting personnel responsible for maintaining complex accounts. Non-complex accounts are characterized by a relatively small number of fund types, revenue sources, cost centers, and cost allocations. Employees in this classification examine, account for, reconcile, analyze, and interpret basic accounting data and records in accordance with GAAP/GASB standards, state/agency accounting procedures, and appropriate internal controls.

Employees use and apply basic accounting theory to analyze and resolve standard accounting transaction problems. Employees interact with programmatic staff to exchange information, explain accounting processes, and resolve accounting discrepancies and disputes. This classification is distinguished from Account Clerks by the fact that Accounting Assistant Technician work requires knowledge of accounting principles and includes preparing financial and statistical reports and summaries.

Work is performed under general supervision.

• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting theories, principles, methods, practices, and terminology.
• Knowledge of governmental accounting standards and systems.
• Knowledge of computerized accounting systems.
• Knowledge of standardized desktop technology and products.
• Knowledge of spelling, punctuation, grammar, and business English.
• Knowledge of office methods and procedures.
• Ability to apply generally accepted accounting principles to account for revenue, expenditures, accounts payable, and accounts receivable.
• Ability to review fiscal transactions for conformity with applicable laws, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to verify, code, compute, and/or reconcile data on standard documents.
• Ability to prepare complete and accurate accounting and financial reports and statements.
• Ability to type varied routine business correspondence from draft or original source documents to revised or final form.
• Ability to organize and maintain computerized and/or manual files.

-Entry-level to intermediate education, training, and/or experience in accounting or another closely related field demonstrating competency applying accounting principles.
Preference given to those with experience in reviewing/processing business transactions and preparing reports.

No matter where you work across Maine state government, you find employees who embody our state…