Accounting Manager

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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• Manages the operations budget including the collection and distribution of annual revenue for the agency.
• Prepares authorizes monitors and controls monthly expenditures of the budget and makes recommendations for the reallocation of resources.
• Provides conflict resolution & statistical information.
• Analyzes various financial data and other numerical data to prepare statistical information.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with legislators public officials vendors etc.
• Drafts and analyzes new legislation and rules & regulations.
• Researches prepares and presents fiscal and administrative impacts of legislation.
• Prepares exhibits and provides expert testimony at legislative committee meetings.
• Analyzes develops and implements policies and procedures as a result of state or federal legislative changes.
• Develops training and educational workshops to inform and educate government agencies the public and various associations regarding state or federal legislative changes.

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 (Wyoming Online Financial System) experience.

Preference will be given to applicants who can create and manipulate Excel spreadsheets.

KNOWLEDGE:

• Knowledge of project management.

• Knowledge of State and Federal laws rules regulations and statutes.

• Knowledge of basic accounting business principles budgets and cost controls.

• Knowledge of the WOLFS III system.

• Knowledge of State Personnel Rules and associated federal laws.

• Knowledge of internal controls over accounting applications.

• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles as they are applied to government accountingsystems.

• Knowledge of government management including human resources accounting and general management

• Knowledge of federal grant application progress reporting and financial reporting.

• Knowledge of budget and procurement practices and policies.

• Skills in oral and written communication.

• Skills in computer applications

• 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: 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 are 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 complies 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 that includes 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 a 457 Deferred Compensation Program longevity pay and opportunities for advancement.