Job Description

Requisition No: 867244

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: SENIOR PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT - 43000280

Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 43000280

Salary: $52,561.57 - $88,982.08

Posting Closing Date: 01/01/2026

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*****INTERNAL AGENCY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY*****

CLASS TITLE: SENIOR PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANT

DIVISION: OFFICE OF FINANCE & BUDGET

BUREAU: FINANCIAL SERVICES

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

SPECIAL NOTES:

This is an internal agency employment opportunity for current employees, including OPS, of the Department of Financial Services, the Office of Financial Regulation, and the Office of Insurance Regulation.

Preference:

• A post-secondary degree in accounting or business is preferred.

Requirements:

• High School diploma or its equivalent
• One (1) year of accounting experience with the State of Florida OR three (3) years of accounting experience is required.
• FLAIR experience processing revenue transactions.
• Journal Transfer experience processing revenue transactions.
• ACH/Wire processing experience.
• CODA Data Entry Keying Experience.
• Retrieving, Reviewing and Analyzing RDS Reports.
• Retrieving, Reviewing and Analyzing PALM Reports.

This position requires a security background check, including fingerprint as a condition of employment.

Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle.

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process.

Minimum Qualifications for this position include the following REQUIRED ENTRY LEVEL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of accounting principles, practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of methods of data collection
• Knowledge of spreadsheet applications.
• Knowledge of numbers, their operations and application use.
• Knowledge and application of information gathering and know difference in essential information collected.
• Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems to complete duties of position.
• Knowledge of principles and processes involved in business and organizational planning, coordinating and execution.
• Skill in typing or in the use of keyboard-controlled data input devices.
• Ability to understand written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Ability to determine work priorities, self-assigns work by priorities, adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions, and ensures proper completion of work assignments.
• Ability to communicate effectively; both verbally and in writing to convey information.
• Ability to set up and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to critically think and use logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weakness of different approaches.
• Ability to formulate policies and procedures.
• Ability to prepare financial reports.
• Ability to timely and accurately prepare and maintain a variety of accounting records.
• Ability to timely and accurately analyze and interpret accounting data.
• Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to an accounting process.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to solve problems and make decisions using sound judgement of the pros and cons of the decision.
• Proficient in Outlook, Word, Excel.
• Ability to review data for accuracy and completeness.
• Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations.
• Ability to meet and maintain minimum production requirements for speed and accuracy.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

• Revenue Journal Transfers, which are to be reviewed daily in RDS, printed, assigned the correct account information and validated daily. This position is to ensure the appropriate documentation has been received from the sending agency/office. This position must maintain open communication with Agency Senders and Division/Office contacts to ensure JT’s received with incorrect accounting data is accurately and timely corrected for processing.
• Wire and ACH transactions, which are to be reviewed daily in Florida PALM, printed, assigned the correct account information and validated daily. A daily financial spreadsheet is to be maintained and updated of all ach/wire transactions received and posted to ensure payments are being accurately and timely processed.
• 12-month warrant cancellation journal transfers, received for Unclaimed Property, are to be reviewed monthly, reconciled against printed RDS report, posted and validated monthly.
• Revolving Fund deposits are to be reviewed, posted, and reconciled in FLAIR/Florida PALM. This includes posting Revolving Fund checks on a TR32A and deposit with Agency assigned Banking Institution.
• RDS Error Reports are to be printed, reviewed, analyzed, reconciled to determine if additional steps are required to ensure deposits are in balance, when applicable.
• Voucher adjustments are to be carefully reviewed, analyzed and submitted to the Disbursements Section for further processing. Upon approval by Accounting & Auditing the correcting entries are posted in FLAIR/Florida PALM.
• Article V deposits are printed, carefully reviewed, analyzed, reconciled against the information posted from DOR in FLAIR/Florida PALM and posted in CODA.
• Processing of DFS Revenue Correction requests, received from various business areas, in both CODA & FLAIR/Florida PALM. In addition to this revenue corrections are made upon completion of the CODA vs FLAIR revenue monthly reconciliation, if any out of balances occur.
• Processing of Bank Adjustments received from our Banking Vendor are carefully reviewed, researched, analyzed, reconciled and processed in both CODA & FLAIR/Florida PALM. Upon completion this position is responsible for notifying the appropriate business area regarding the adjustment made to their account.
• Audit, Reconcile and Process refund requests for the Florida Surplus Lines Service Office upon request.
• The Senior Professional Accountant updating the eCommerce Tracker spreadsheet and business areas on any ecommerce related issues. Also, includes Reconciling and Posting of Ecom Pending Deposits in CODA, which includes T’ing the deposit in FLAIR/Florida PALM for verification once reconciled and posted.
• Archiving of Deposit files maintained by the Receipts Accounting Section.
• PY/CY Refund Processing.
• Assist with the daily workload and workflow in Receipts (keying & opening mail, processing checks, coding, validating receipts in CODA, FLAIR or PALM and researching payments), when needed.
• Assist with reconciliations of all fund accounts processed in the Cashier’s Office Deposit Automation (CODA) System to FLAIR/Florida PALM.
• Assisting the FLAIR and eCommerce Team with daily duties, as needed.
• Monitor and update as needed the associated desk procedures to ensure relevant processes are current
• Performs other related duties as required by supervisor.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.