State of Missouri Looking for Accountant II at Jefferson City, Missouri Full Time

Job Position Number: 3DAS019

Salary: $ 1,750.00 – $ 1,959.00 semi-monthly

Job Location: This position is with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of Administrative Support, and will be located at the Lewis & Clark State Office Building 1101 Riverside Drive, Jefferson City, MO 65109.

Why you’ll love this position:

You will have the pleasure of working in a fast paced environment with opportunities to learn and advance a variety of skills. We interact with team members across the Department and with Grantors to assure grant funding is applied for, received, and spent appropriately to better serve the State of Missouri.

What you’ll do:

• Review grant applications and awards for accuracy, clarity, appropriate calculations and completeness, prior to departmental approval. Monitor and submit applications and awards to federal agencies on behalf of the Department.
• Ensure chart of accounts codes including grant codes and budgets for awards and amendments are established to comply with reporting requirements, in SAMII, the state’s accounting system, and Salesforce, our grants platform.
• Use Access or Crystal Reports, and Excel, to develop and prepare financial statements, reports, analysis, and reconciliations for various funds in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting (GAAP) and Governmental Accounting Standard Board (GASB) for internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitor expenditures and revenue transactions for compliance with statues, policies, and procedures, compliance with bidding requirements, coding accuracy and appropriateness, etc.
• Compile and analyze data for the preparation of financial reports and reimbursement requests in compliance with grant reporting requirement for submission to awarding agencies.
• Assure timely and accurate set up and modification of Labor Distribution Profiles (LDPR) in SAMII HR for payroll to process. Work with program contacts and OA Accounting HR to resolve payroll errors.
• Receive and verify payroll adjustment requests form program contacts and work with OA Accounting HR to process the documents.
• Assist with the preparation of the state’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report.
• Review GASB exposure drafts and statements for potential impact.
• Fiscal year end reference file updates (chart of accounts).
• Participate in review and update of policies and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned.

All you need for success:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 12 credit hours in accounting, finance, business administration or closely related area; and 2-4 years of relevant experience and/or appropriate certification. (Substitutions may be allowed.)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Access and Excel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting preferred
• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally verbally and with written correspondence
• Ability to work independently on assigned projects with little supervision
• Ability to work on multiple projects at once and meet deadlines
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with others in the unit and the agency customers
• Knowledge of the statewide accounting system and data warehouse reports

If you have questions about this position please contact:

Whitney Pickerell at (573) 751-0960 or Whitney.Pickerell@dnr.mo.gov

The State of Missouri is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.