Accountant II - Program Accounting

Overview

Department Information

This position is open to current Colorado residents only.

Please note:

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies. Remote Work/Hybrid:
In office 2 days a week, Remote 3 days a week. Fort Logan/1575 Sherman.

Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for a great benefit package! Please see the Supplemental Information section below for details.

Remote Work/Hybrid:
In office 2 days a week, Remote 3 days a week.

Please note:

These working arrangements are subject to change. Fort Logan/1575 Sherman.

Program Accounting exists to provide accountable financial information about the Human Services Programs, both State and Federal, to the Management of the Department of Human Services, the State Controller's Office, the federal government, the county departments of social/human services and others in need of information in an efficient and timely manner.

This is a professional accounting position that generates, compiles, analyzes, and interprets all the accounting and reporting functions for all State and Federal programs assigned. The position will be responsible for understanding and maintaining the accounts and records in CORE.

Daily Accounting

Activities:

Accesses fiscal systems to produce, correct, audit, approve, and input financial and budget transactions that pertain to the Federal and State Programs. Also analyzes information on an as-needed basis for all assigned programs. This includes accessing all systems for the financial, budget, and payment information as needed by supervisors, peers, program staff, auditors, and county staff producing accurate auditable data using established procedures and manuals.

Provide specific examples of regular, ongoing decisions made by this position related to this duty.

• Assists program staff on expenditure/revenue related decisions.
• Advises on allowable activity within the Federal and State program from a financial perspective.
• This position analyzes CORE data and creates ad hoc reports to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial reports. This position analyzes procedures to determine if they are appropriate projects for automation, which would allow them to be accomplished more efficiently and effectively.

Reconciliation Of Program Expenditures And Revenues
Reconciles all general and grant ledger accounts relative to all expenditures, revenue, obligations for all assigned programs, both federal and state, by analyzing and investigating various types of errors and interpreting the account expenditures and balances of funds available and using the data received from all financial systems to produce accurate and complete information for federal and management reporting.

Provide specific examples of regular, ongoing decisions made by this position related to this duty.

• This position is the Department’s authority for the proper classification, processing, and timing for recording financial accounting transactions, and spending authority for assigned programs. This position decides after doing analysis what steps to recommend to avoid revenue shortages, over expenditures or M headnote violations. This person determines if expenditures are allowable or unallowable. They are responsible for determining if fund balance is available if there is a shortage of revenue.
  
  This position works with programs to determine appropriate methodology to bring into compliance if out of compliance.
• Determines and makes corrections as needed to ensure proper recording of expenditure/revenues.

Prepare program financial reports on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual basis by analyzing and interpreting CORE data to determine if they are allowable or unallowable costs for the programs for which the financial reports are being produced.

Prepares and interprets system reports for all assigned programs, and Budget by utilizing a variety of excel spreadsheets to manipulate, enhance, combine the elements and different levels of detail present in CORE and the reports they produce. Said spreadsheets to be used in the budgeting and…