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Accountant 2 - Job Appointment

Salary

$3,579.00 - $7,025.00 Monthly

Location

Baton Rouge, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

210656

Department

Gov-Office of Elderly Affairs

Opening Date

07/16/2025

Closing Date

7/21/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

GOEA is committed to advocating for the needs and rights of the elderly, improving the quality of life for its seniors, promoting public awareness, intervention in exploitation and abuse, building partnerships with communities, and supporting intergenerational activities.

We’re looking for an Accountant 2 to join our Finance Division—a detail-driven team committed to financial accuracy, transparency, and innovation. The Accountant 2 plays a key role in preparing financial statements and reports, maintaining cash management records, and ensuring budget integrity through reconciliation, forecasting, and auditing. This position also collaborates with auditors, financial institutions, vendors, and internal staff to resolve complex accounting issues and improve financial processes.

If you're analytical, collaborative, and ready to contribute to a high-performing financial team—this could be the opportunity for you!

Minimum Qualifications

Four years of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking; OR

Six years of full-time experience in any field plus twenty-four semester hours in accounting plus one year of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking; OR

A bachelor’s degree with twenty-four semester hours in accounting plus one year of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking; OR

A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, management, economics, or statistics plus one year of experience in accounting, auditing, financial operations, payroll, or banking; OR

An advanced degree in accounting, finance, business administration, management, economics, quantitative methods, or statistics; OR

Possession of a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license.

EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTION:

Every 30 semester hours earned from an accredited college or university will be credited as one year of experience towards the six years of full-time work experience in any field. The maximum substitution allowed is 120 semester hours which substitutes for a maximum of four years of experience in any field.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=139350) .

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

Prepares required financial statements and fiscal reports which includes the compilation and analysis of data for monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.

Communicates with public and private accountants; state, federal, and independent auditors; banks; brokerage firms; program or management personnel; and vendors for the purpose of providing information and technical assistance needed to resolve problems.

Maintains cash management records, including funds drawn and received, funds disbursed by sources, deposits of funds, issuance of refunds, and classifies revenue as to sources of funding and expenditures as to their nature.

Prepares, monitors, reconciles, audits, and forecasts revenues, expenditures, and budgets.

Reviews and approves purchases and contracts.

Participates in the development of new accounting techniques in the design and implementation of accounting subsystems, compilation of manuals for accounting and computer application, and preparing managerial reports.

Position-Specific Duties:

THIS POSITION WILL BE FILLED AS A FULL-TIME JOB APPOINTMENT FOR A LIMITED DURATION NOT TO EXCEED FOUR YEARS.

How to Apply:

All prospective new hires will be subject to employment eligibility verification via the federal government's E-verify.

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. *

Preference may be given to those applicants who have experience working in LA GOV/ISIS.

Contact Information:

For further information about this posting, please email:

Human Resources

[email protected] ([email protected])

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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Do you have experience in LaGov/ISIS? If yes, explain. If no, write N/A

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Do you have experience utilizing Accounting software? If yes, explain. If no, write N/A

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Are you aware that this is a full-time job appointment that will be filled for a limited duration not to exceed four years?

+ Yes

+ No

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Do you have a bachelor's degree with twenty-four semester hours in accounting?

+ Yes

+ No

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If you answered "yes" to the previous question, please type each course name, semester hours earned, and the accredited university. If you answered "no", type N/A. Example: Acct 2001 - Introductory Financial Accounting - 3 hrs - LSU

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Do you have a current certified public accountant (CPA) certificate?

+ Yes

+ No

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If you answered yes to the previous question, please list the license number, issue date, and expiration date. If no, please type N/A.

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If selected for this position, retirement and other benefits will be discussed in detail with you. To help ensure a smooth administrative process upon hire, can you confirm if you are currently retired? If so, please specify the retirement system or company that administers your benefits.

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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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