ACCOUNTANT ADVANCED

Position Overview

The Accountant Advanced position is located at our Springfield, IL office. This position reports to the Fiscal Supervisor in the Fiscal Department. The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) is one of Illinois' most important and dynamic Agencies. With an annual budget of $22.6 million, and an authorized staff of more than 120 full-time employees, IDOL has the capacity and capability to provide administration and enforcement of over 25 labor and safety Laws. At IDOL, we take pride in our Agency's mission: to promote and protect the rights, wages, welfare, working conditions, safety and health of Illinois workers, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, color or sexual orientation, through enforcement of state labor laws, and to safeguard the public through regulation of amusement rides and to ensure compliance with all other labor standards.

Essential Functions

• Maintains and reconciles internal records, including fund balances and expenditure reports and cash receipts, with external records such as records from the Comptroller’s Office and the Treasurer’s Office.
• Independently performs professional accounting work in assisting with the preparation, maintenance and examination of complex departmental budgetary documents, reports, and statements for departmental usage or for submission to the Office of Management and Budget and to the General Assembly. 
• Establishes and maintains financial records/ledgers using standard automated and manual systems for departmental programs.
• Analyzes and reconciles complex federal and state records related to reports prior to the closeout/final financial status reports to assure agreement with agency records.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably 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, budgetary planning and control or public accounting.

Preferred Qualifications (In Order of Significance)

• Two (2) years of experience working with the SAP accounting software or similiar accounting software.
• Two (2) years of experience performing reconciliations.
• Two (2) years of experience performing complex accounting reconciliations related to state or federal bills.
• Two (2) years of experience of accounting and auditing theory, principles, methods, and procedures.
• Two (2) years experience in receipts and/or Accounts receivables.
• Two (2) years working with laws, rules and regulations relating to accounting or auditing proceedures.
• Two (2) years of experience preparing comprehensive accounting reports.
• Two (2) years of experience determining violations and noncompliance with the law and to detect and explain significant irregularities.
• Two (2) years of experience reviewing detailed work including written or numerical data and to make calculations rapidly and accurately.

Conditions of Employment

• Overtime is a condition of employment, and you may be requested or required/mandated to work overtime including scheduled, unscheduled, or last-minute overtime. This may require the ability to work evenings and weekends.
• Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties, with overnight stays as appropriate. 
• This position is considered light work as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor (20 CFR 404.1567(b)). Light work involves lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds. This job may require a good deal of walking or standing, or involves sitting most of the time with some pushing and pulling of arm or leg controls.
•  Certain provisions of the revolving door restrictions contained in 5 ILCS 430/5-45 apply to this position. As a result, the employee should be aware that if offered non-State employment during state employment or within one year immediately after ending State employment, the employee shall, prior to accepting any such non-State employment offer, notify the Office of the Executive Inspector General for the Agencies of the Illinois Governor (OEIG) or may be subject to a fine.
•  Requires completion of a background check and self-disclosure of criminal history.
• The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.