Accounting Technician

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Accounting Technician

Salary

$2,602.00 - $4,682.00 Monthly

Location

Metairie, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

205607

Department

LA Motor Vehicle Commission

Opening Date

02/10/2025

Closing Date

2/10/2025 11:59 PM Central

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Supplemental Information

About this position:

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE SHOULD POSSESS THE FOLLOWING COMPETENCIES:

Accepting Direction:The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.

Acting with Ethics and Integrity:The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources.

Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.

Demonstrating Accountability:The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions.

Displaying Professionalism: The ability to recognize how your actions impact the perceptions of both you and your organization.

Following Policies and Procedures:The ability to comply with policies and procedures of the organization as well as State Civil Service rules, and all applicable federal and state laws.

Managing Budgets:The ability to be a good steward of state resources by effectively managing allocated funds.

Managing Resources:The ability to ensure resources such as time, money, and people are utilized appropriately to result in maximum business value.

Managing Time:The ability to control your time to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity.

Working with Financial Information:The ability to use financial data to guide, drive, and convey the financial standing and/or outlook of an organization.

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. *

For further information about this vacancy contact:

Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission

Angela Flannery

504-838-5207

ALFlannery@lmvc.la.gov

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Three years of experience or training in accounting, auditing, bookkeeping, or financial operations or computations.

EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION:

Every 30 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will substitute for one year of the required experience.

Job Concepts

Function of Work:

To provide the full range of paraprofessional accounting services.

Level of Work:

Advanced.

Supervision Received:

Generally from higher-level fiscal or administrative position.

Supervision Exercised:

May supervise lower-level paraprofessional fiscal or administrative positions.

Location of Work:

May be used by all state agencies.

Job Distinctions:

Differs from Accounting Specialist 2 by responsibility for preparation of basic-level financial reports.

Differs from professional accountants by assisting accounting professionals in the performance of various tasks within the accounting process.

Examples of Work

Extracts information and prepares portions of reports and/or schedules for higher-level accounting professionals in a budget unit.

Extracts and manipulates information and prepares weekly or biweekly financial reports and schedules for state and federal reports to be used by higher level accounting professionals.

Responsible for posting and journalizing ledgers and preparing financial accounts reports such as those for complex grants in a large central fiscal office.

Reconciles biweekly or monthly bank statements/accounts.

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

• New Year's Day

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

• Mardi Gras,

• Good Friday,

• Memorial Day,

• Independence Day,

• Labor Day,

• Veteran's Day,

• Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

* Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

• Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your_Retirement_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

• Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

• Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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  AEI: Rate your ability to act with ethics and integrity based on our definition: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources.

• 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable acting with ethics and integrity

• 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to act with ethics and integrity

• 3= I can act with ethics and integrity

• 4= I can act with ethics and integrity and help others improve their ability to act with ethics and integrity

  02

  AEI: Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below.

  03

  DPf: Rate your ability to display professionalism based on our definition: The ability to recognize how your actions impact the perceptions of both you and your organization.

• 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable displaying professionalism

• 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to display professionalism

• 3= I can display professionalism

• 4= I can display professionalism and help others improve their ability to display professionalism

  04

  DPf: Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below.

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  FPP: Rate your ability to follow policies and procedures based on our definition: The ability to comply with policies and procedures of the organization as well as State Civil Service rules, and all applicable federal and state laws.

• 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable following policies and procedures

• 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to follow policies and procedures

• 3= I can follow policies and procedures

• 4= I can follow policies and procedures and help others improve their ability to follow policies and procedures

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  FPP: Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below.

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  WFI: Rate your ability to work with financial information based on our definition: The ability to use financial data to guide, drive, and convey the financial standing and/or outlook of an organization.

• 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable working with financial information

• 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to work with financial information

• 3= I can work with financial information

• 4= I can work with financial information and help others improve their ability to work with financial information

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  WFI: Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below.

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Employer

State of Louisiana

Address

For agency contact information, please refer to

the supplemental information above.

Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm

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