ACCOUNTANT ADVANCED- Financial Reporting

Position Overview

Under direction this position is responsible for performing professional level accounting functions related to the maintenance of interagency agreement budget requests from various divisions; reconciliation of receipts, expenditures and cash with the Comptroller's office; assist with GAAP reporting and manages Official Advanced Funds (OAF) for the department. Analyze reconciliation discrepancies and initiate corrections which may require working with other units. Prepare applicable reports used for supporting documentation for preparation of C-17 Local Held Funds quarterly reporting. Prepare C-17 accurately and timely. Analyzes cost reports, determines costs and settlement amounts and generates final cost reports. Completes modification forms

About the Agency

The Illinois State Police strives for excellence seeking to be one of the premiere policing agencies in the country. Our core values are Integrity, Service, and Pride. We are seeking individuals with similar values to join us on our mission to promote public safety.

Essential Functions

• Under direction, independently performs maintenance of a variety of departmental funds and the preparation, summarization and reconciliations of receipts, cash and expenditures with the Comptroller's Office.
• Conducts the first Office of Finance (OOF) review of C-97s and communicates with the divisions on issues.
• Receive, review, record monthly Official Advanced Funds (OAF) reports from agents.
• Responsible for submitting new/revised cost center and pay codes to applicable parties outside of OOF.
• Review and approve various interagency agreements and memorandum of agreements created by various units within the agency.
• Assists in completion of GAAP reporting.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonable and within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to completion of four years college, with courses in business administration and accounting
• Requires two (2) years of professional experience in accounting, external auditing or public accounting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefers two (2) years of experience with preparing complex financial spreadsheets and accounting reports.
• Prefers two (2) years of professional experience working with receipts and receivables.
• Prefers one (1) year of experience using System Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP) accounting software
• Prefers intermediate level of expertise using Adobe Professional, Microsoft Word and Excel.

Conditions of Employment

• Pass the Illinois State Police Background Investigation.
• Pass the Illinois State Police Drug Screening.
• The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

Benefits Package

The Illinois State Police offers a robust benefit package including:

• • Flexible work schedules in many program areas

  • Health, life, vision, and dental insurance.

  • 12 weeks paid maternity/paternity leave.

  • Pension Plan

  • Deferred Compensation, and other pre-tax benefit programs.

  • Employees earn twelve (12) paid sick days annually.

  • Ten to twenty-five (10-25) paid vacation days based on years of service.

  • Employees earn three (3) paid personal days pro-rated based on start date.

  • Thirteen-Fourteen (13-14) paid state holidays annually.