Comptroller - Accountant V-VI

Job Description

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Please note that this job posting can be closed without notice and earlier than the closing date indicated in the posting if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage applicants to submit and complete the application promptly.

Are you ready to grow, make a positive impact? If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!

Innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence best describes the culture here at the Comptroller's Office. We take pride in the work we do serving as Texas' accountant, tax collector, treasurer, and much more! The Comptroller's office serves virtually every citizen in the state. As Texas' chief tax collector, accountant, revenue estimator, treasurer and purchasing manager, the agency is responsible for writing the checks and keeping the books for the multi-billion-dollar business of state government.

Our agency workforce is as diverse as the people of Texas we serve. We value our employees and take very seriously our collective commitment to public service. Personal development opportunities are strongly encouraged through available workshops, teambuilding exercises, and on the job training. We offer flexible scheduling that helps employees maintain a healthy work-life balance.

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About The Division

Join the Budget & Internal Accounting team as an Accountant! Work involves serving as the primary agency timekeeper and backup Agency Payroll Officer using the Time and Labor (TL) and Payroll Modules of the Centralized Accounting Payroll / Personnel System (CAPPS). Assists with all processing and related functions.

Agency standard work hours are Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm, 40 hours per week with occasional evening and weekend hours. Hours are subject to change based upon business need or division determination.

Accountant V: $6,000.00 - $6,500.00

Accountant VI: $7,083.33 - $7,583.83



Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

Accountant V:

• Bachelor's degree.

• 4 years of experience with state of Texas payroll and time/labor processing.

Accountant VI:

• Bachelor's degree.

• 6 years of experience with state of Texas payroll and time/labor processing.

Preferred Qualifications

Accountant V:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Banking, Finance, Business, or a related field.

• 2 years of experience with CAPPS (Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System).

• Experience as an agency timekeeper.

• Experience working with PeopleSoft Human Resources/Payroll modules.

• Experience with Texas Human Resources Management Statutes (General Appropriations Act) relating to compensation, time and labor and benefits.

Accountant VI:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Banking, Finance, Business or a related field.

• 4 years of experience with CAPPS (Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System).

• Experience as an agency timekeeper.

• Experience working with PeopleSoft Human Resources/Payroll modules.

• Experience with Texas Human Resources Management Statutes (General Appropriations Act) relating to compensation, time and labor and benefits.

Substitutions

• One additional year of experience performing state of Texas payroll and time/labor processing work may substitute for thirty semester hours of educational requirement with a maximum substitution of 120 semester hours (four years).

SUMMARY OF PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Employees are required to use their personal mobile phones as a part of 2 factor/multi factor authentication for accessing CPA systems securely. You will also receive critical/emergency calls/texts on your cell phone to ensure immediate communication.

In this role you will:

• Serves as a backup payroll officer.

• Maintains payroll processing controls, earnings, deductions, garnishments, voluntary deductions, terminations, W-4s, including in- and out-of-state taxes and associated monthly/quarterly returns, returned monies and payment cancellations.

• Executes all procedures and batch processes used to load, calculate, and submit employee payment data. Processes include loading time and labor, running pay sheet manager and pre-calculation processes, running defensive queries and reports, CPE main/reversal/replacement loads, running final pay calculations and pay confirmation, processing actuals distribution, creating and distribution of funding reports, creating payroll documents, and running SPRS outbound payroll files.

• Assists division time administrators and/or employees with functionality and procedural payroll questions/issues.

• Serves as the primary agency timekeeper.

• Manages and clears daily system exceptions.

• Assists division time administrators and/or employees with functionality and procedural questions/issues.

• Oversees monthly processing of timesheets, which includes ensuring timesheets are submitted in a timely manner, researching, calculating and correcting time balances, identifying and finding resolution for TL setup or calculation issues, entering timesheets on behalf of managers and/or employees, manually running time administration processes, closing payable time, enrolling employees into compensatory plans, setting up work schedules or schedule overrides, entering awarded agency time, entering donated sick hours, entering military hours, reconciling and inserting time entry for terminated employees, reconciling leave without pay hours, overseeing/preparing system for monthly overtime payroll, entering leave of absence (LOA) personnel action forms (PAFs), completing the fiscal year end leave conversion process and granting/refreshing system screens to update employee system access.

• May perform system updates and enter time on the behalf of a manager, time administrator or employee.

• Completes system onboarding of new hires, including maintaining prior state service verifications.

• Sets up and maintains direct deposits, maintains longevity and benefit replacement payments, maintains lump sum payments to eligible terminated employees, maintains monthly overtime payments, audits on and off cycle payrolls, distributes earning statements, mails monthly payroll deduction checks, creates, and distributes Internal Revenue Service 941 returns, W-2 forms and 1099-MISC forms.

• Sets up out of state tax accounts and assists with monthly filing and quarterly filing for out of state taxes.

• Implements all legislative changes related to payroll.

• Maintains section files in compliance with the state's records retention guidelines.

• Prepares records for storage at the State Library.

• Prepares special reports and projects.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Maximize Your Earnings!

At the Comptroller's office, we know potential employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. The agency offers a strong benefits package for you and your family. Insurance, retirement plans, and a flexible work schedule are just the start. See our benefits offering

If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!

Important Note to the Candidate:

Salary is contingent upon qualifications. If you are scheduled for an interview and require any reasonable accommodation in our interview process, please inform the hiring representative who calls you to schedule your interview. Whenever possible, please give the hiring representative sufficient time to consider and respond to your request.

MILITARY PREFERENCE

To receive MILITARY PREFERENCE, you are required to provide proof by attaching the necessary documentation to this job application.

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Additional MOS can be found at the State Auditor's Office,

Military Crosswalk Guide.

The Texas Veterans Commission provides helpful employment information. Go to: http://www.texasskillstowork.com, http://www.onetonline.org, https://hr.sao.texas.gov/CompensationSystem/JobDescriptions/ or www.careeronestop.org for assistance translating your military experience and training courses into civilian job terms, qualifications/requirements and skill sets.

Applications submitted through Work in Texas:

Work In Texas (WIT) applicants must complete supplemental questions to be considered for the position. To complete the supplemental questions please go to CAPPS Recruit to register or login and access your profile.

The Comptroller's Office is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity.

An applicant must be eligible to work in the United States to be hired at the Comptroller's office and must remain eligible, without sponsorship or any assurance of financial or other assistance from this agency, during the term of their employment.