Accountant I - Nebraska Correctional Center for Women
State of Nebraska

Job Info

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Description
The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) employs nearly 2,300 team members operating nine institutions, which house approximately 5,200 inmates, statewide. The department's focus includes inmate programming and education, physical and behavioral health care, re-entry services, and community programs, and is accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA). Candidates will model the NDCS Values of integrity, respect, compassion, growth, and excellence as we accomplish our mission, "Keep people safe." Information about the Department can be found at: www.corrections.nebraska.gov.

Hiring rate is based upon experience: $14.066-20.735/hour

• 13 paid holidays
• Vacation and sick leave (24 days your first year, accruing immediately)
• Military leave
• 156% state-matched retirement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• 79% employer paid health insurance plans
• Dental and vision insurance plans
• Employer-paid $20,000 life insurance policy
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) eligible through the Federal government
• Wide variety and availability of career advancement
• Meaningful public service -- service with a purpose!
• Numerous training and development opportunities

For more information call (402) 479-5690. For Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodations, please contact ADA Coordinator Mike Carr at 402-479-5812 or mike.carr@nebraska.gov.

Location: Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, 1107 Recharge Road, York, NE 68467

Schedule: M-F, 8:00-4:00
Examples of Work
Under general supervision, performs moderately complex, technical accounting work to generate and process front-end accounting and financial data transactions and reports; will perform clerical accounting transactions; performs related work as assigned.
Match invoices to receiving documentation and audit for validity and accuracy; initiate communication to acquire needed invoices, credits, debits or receiving documentation; monitor and review CIPS, generate purchase orders in payroll and financial center; maintain inventories and order institutional supplies, forms, office supplies, inmate clothing and inmate linens; contact for the facility regarding inmate accounting questions and monitor release dates for inmates receiving release checks; organize and maintain an alpha file of outstanding invoices and receiving documents; occasional mail sorting, filing.
Qualifications / Requirements
REQUIREMENTS: Post high school coursework or vocational education in accounting, finance, business administration or related field OR experience performing accounting functions including interpreting and analyzing financial data.

PREFERRED: Associates Degree in Accounting or Finance field; experience with spreadsheets; Accounts Payable experience; extensive computer and data entry experience. OTHER: Excel test at time of interview, including creating formulas. Applicant accepting a job offer must pass the following pre-employment exams in this order: medical exam and, at a randomly announced time, pass a drug test. Once at the Staff Training Academy, must successfully complete the fully paid NE Corrections Training Program.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of: the principles and practices of double entry accounting concepts and procedures; clerical accounting methods, forms and techniques; the methods of filing and maintaining accounting records; mathematical functions related to accounting processes; word processing and spreadsheet computer software programs.

Skill in: listening to and understanding information and/or instructions received to perform assigned tasks; gathering and compiling data into spreadsheets or data bases.

Ability to: learn and apply agency policies and guidelines pertinent to clerical accounting; learn clerical accounting terminology, codes and classifications; maintain financial records and prepare clerical accounting reports and statements; enter information into a computer system; post information to ledgers, journals, worksheets, and other documents; compute and compile figures involving the use of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, and fractions; compare information and recognize discrepancies; communicate with agency staff and the public to express facts and gather information; operate office equipment such as personal computers, scanners, photocopiers and desk calculators; adapt and apply guidelines and methods to accounting transactions; extract data from established accounts for use in preparing accounting reports and statements.

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