Field Auditor​/Trainee​/Trainee ; NY HELPS

The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF) provides Workers’ Compensation Insurance to New York State employers. The Premium Audit Department (PAD) at NYSIF is responsible for ensuring insurance premiums are appropriately determined by employers' applicable payrolls.

Field auditors perform reviews of employers' payrolls, financial and other pertinent records, as well as physical operations, to verify reported payrolls and operations for specified policy periods. This is done in compliance with Workers' Compensation Insurance laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines. Field auditors must apply professional accounting and auditing standards and principles alongside the Workers’ Compensation guidelines.

Reviews are generally conducted in the field, meaning the Auditor is responsible for traveling to the employer’s location or an alternate agreed-upon location, whether it be a conference room, accountant’s office, or personal residence depending on the size of the policyholder. The employer may opt for a virtual interactive video conference where they provide records on their computer screen for the auditor’s review or choose to have the review done remotely by uploading all records to our secure site for the auditor to review and discuss with them thereafter.

However, frequent travel is to be expected for the position.

Auditor trainees will receive a combination of structured training, on-the-job training, and/or practical job performance to gain the knowledge and experience necessary to function at the full performance level.

Please note, employment experience obtained as a Field Auditor 1 at NYSIF is not considered qualifying experience for prospective Certified Public Accountant (CPA) candidates.

Minimum Qualifications

For Appointment to Field Auditor Trainee 1: (Hiring Rate: $57,764)

• One year of permanent, competitive class service in a title eligible for transfer
  * under Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law. Eligible transfers to the trainee 1/trainee 2 level include:
  Auditor Trainee 1/Trainee 2; OR
• A bachelor’s or higher degree in accounting, auditing, or taxation; OR
• A bachelor’s or higher degree (in any areas of study) with proof of 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing or taxation courses*, and 6 semester credit hours in finance, money and banking, economics, or business.

For Appointment to Field Auditor 1 (SG-18): (Hiring Rate: $70,951)

• One year of permanent, competitive class service in a title eligible for transfer
  * under Section 70.1 of Civil Service Law. Eligible transfers to the journey-level title include:
  Auditor 1, Contract Management Specialist 1; OR
• A bachelor’s or higher degree (in any area of study) with proof of 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, or taxation courses*, 6 semester credit hours in finance, money and banking, economics, or business, AND two years of professional experience† in accounting/auditing or financial internal or field auditing, where you were responsible for the full range of activities in the design and/or review, analysis and management of accounting systems, resulting in the preparation of, or recommendations on, financial statements in accord with generally accepted accounting principles;
  
  OR
• A master’s or higher degree in accounting, auditing, or taxation AND one year of professional experience† as described above; OR
• A currently valid Certified Public Accountant license and registration issued by New York State.
• Please note, candidates in a transferable title may also require the additional qualification of 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, or taxation courses, and 6 semester credit hours in finance, money and banking, economics, or business. Please note that courses such as business law, economics, statistics, and most finance courses, although taken as part of an accounting curriculum, cannot be counted toward the 18 semester credit hours in accounting, auditing, or taxation.

† Experience NOT considered qualifying are activities restricted to teaching, bookkeeping, maintaining/auditing payroll records or accounts receivable/accounts payable, or preparing tax returns.

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