ACCOUNTING MANAGER - 65911

Executive Service

Who we are and what we do:

The Division of Accounts - Asset Management section is responsible for accurately and timely managing the state's capital assets in the state's Enterprise Resource Planning system in order to facilitate proper stewardship and reporting.

How you make a difference in this role:

The Division of Accounts - Asset Management section is seeking an Accounting Manager with effective communication and team leadership skills, expertise in reconciliations, and a results driven approach to the management and reporting of the state's capital assets.

Key Responsibilities:

Manages daily work unit operations. Leads, reviews, and approves high-risk, high-volume, and complex transactions to ensure accurate recording. Oversees the reconciliation of state capital assets to general ledger transactions, ensuring accuracy and compliance. Develops and refines procedures to improve departmental efficiency. Assists in conducting risk assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of internal financial controls. Monitors and evaluates staff performance to identify training and development needs. Applies federal and state laws while adhering to GAAP and GASB principles to ensure accurate and timely management and reporting of state's capital assets.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in accounting and experience equivalent to five or more years of full-time professional accounting or auditing work.

OR

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including thirty-six quarter hours in accounting and experience equivalent to five or more years of full-time professional accounting or auditing work.

Substitution of Graduate Education for Experience: Graduate coursework credit received from an accredited college or university in accounting may substitute for the required experience on a month for month basis to a maximum of one year (e.g., 36 graduate quarter hours in the above listed field may substitute for one year of the required experience.)

OR

Designated as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and experience equivalent to three years of full-time professional accounting or auditing work.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.