Job Title: Accounting Specialist I

Where: Office of State Courts Administrator, Jefferson City, MO

Full-time: 40 hours

Starting Salary: $34,137.00

A career with the Office of State Courts Administrator will provide you the opportunity to work with a variety of exceptional, hardworking people and gain valuable work experiences. It takes many types of talent to advance the mission of the Missouri Judiciary and keep operations running smoothly. We have opportunities for individuals seeking meaningful work in providing administrative, business and information technology services to the Missouri courts.

We are recruiting to fill an Accounting Specialist I position to processes accounts payable, expenses and cash receipts for the Office of State Courts Administrator and the Missouri Judiciary. Position processes and records invoices and payments for financial transactions. Responsible for expenditure tracking, preparing invoices, monitoring spending plans, building reports and reconciling expenditures.

We offer hybrid work schedules to our employees. The successful candidate will be eligible for remote work two days a week, after successfully completing the six month probationary period.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Performs basic professional accounting tasks and related work of a clerical nature in a fiscal section of OSCA.
• Classifies or codes transactions according to a chart of accounts.
• Checks accounts for accuracy of entries, postings, totals, and balances.
• Prepares routine simple statements, schedules, and statistical data from a limited number of accounts which are closely related.

Desired skills and knowledge:

• Knowledge of clerical accounting methods, forms and techniques as learned on the job.
• Knowledge of departmental practices and procedures relating to the processing and recording of transactions and accounting information.
• Knowledge of accounting codes, classifications and terminology pertinent to clerical accounting operations.

Minimum qualifications: (The following statement represents the minimum education and experience which will be used to determine qualifications of applicants. Additional experience above the minimum stated may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted on a year for year basis.)

Graduation from high school or GED equivalent and three years of professional experience involving full time work in a closely related field.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and have a strong commitment to diversity in all its forms. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of qualified people who will assist us in demonstrating our essential values of excellence, integrity, justice, stewardship, teamwork and partnership.