Accountant

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

Working for the State of Wyoming offers more than a paycheck. Our total compensation package includes:

• Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance
• Paid vacation sick leave FMLA and holidays
• Retirement - Pension and 457B plans that help you build a secure future
• Flexible schedules and work-life balance options
• Meaningful work that makes a difference for Wyoming communities

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• Ensures internal control of the work unit or division.
• Reviews and completed documents for A/P and A/R.
• Reviews and completes travel vouchers
• Maintains the Central Office annual property inventory.
• Processes inmate payroll including child support court-ordered fines restitution and internal obligation payments.
• Processes daily deposits and financial transaction requests and responds to inmate communications.
• Prepares analyzes and interprets fiscal information and may carry out special studies.
• Recommends fiscal policy and methods for improving operations.
• Participates in agency planning for the next budget period by researching and compiling data utilized in agency budget preparation.
• Maintains petty cash fund per established policy and procedures.
• Maintains fixed assets on WOLFS.
• Determines accurate dollar amounts to be billed to each agency for a statewide billing system and generates monthly billings.
• Performs a variety of routine tasks in the acquisition disbursement and inventory of equipment supplies and commodities.
• Reviews and approves department WOLFS documents for A/P and A/R.
• Manages grant/project budgets in WOLFS.
• Coordinates fiscal functions for all grant coordinators in the department.
• Ensures statutory compliance by internal and external stakeholders.

PREFERENCES:

Preference will be given to applicants with 3-4 years of progressive work experience (typically in Finance or Accounting) and knowledge acquired at an accounting technician level.
Preference will be given to applicants with WOLFS experience.Preference will be given to applicants who can create and manipulate Excel spreadsheets.

• Knowledge of purchasing procedures.
• Knowledge of internal control processes.
• Knowledge of accounting principles techniques and systems.
• Skill in Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge of Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) standards and General Acceptable Accounting Procedures (GAAP)

• Typically the employee may sit comfortably to perform work; however there may be some walking standing bending lifting and carrying of light items driving an automobile etc.
• Exposure to inside and outside environmental conditions.
• Lifting/grasping up to 50 pounds without assistance on a regular basis.
• Walking on cement floors regularly.
• Stooping bending kneeling and crouching regularly.
• Reaching on a regular basis.
• Typing/Repetitive motion is frequent.
• Talking/hearing frequently.
• Seeing: the visual ability to perform an activity such as analyzing data and figures viewing a computer terminal and extensive reading.

• FLSA: Non-Exempt
• The State of Wyoming is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively supports the ADA and reasonably accommodates qualified applicants with disabilities.
• The Wyoming Department of Corrections is a Drug-Free Workplace. All staff is subject to drug testing while employed by the WDOC.
• The Wyoming Department of Corrections is a Tobacco-Free Workplace and prohibits the taking carrying possessing or introducing of smoking materials smokeless tobacco or tobacco substitutes on or into WDOC facilities and grounds.
• The Wyoming Department of Corrections is in compliance with the Federal Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003. It is the policy and practice of WDOC to protect inmates/offenders from personal abuse corporal punishment personal injury disease property damage harassment and the elimination of prison rape.
• Successful Applicants for employment must pass a background/reference check and drug test.
• WDOC has a strict dress code policy to include standards for facial hair body art and piercings/gauges. All applicants must meet the standards of this dress code to be considered for employment.
• WDOC offers a competitive benefits package including medical dental and life insurance paid vacation and sick leave paid holidays a tuition reimbursement program Wyoming State Retirement and a 457 Deferred Compensation Program longevity pay and opportunities for advancement.