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Accounting Technician

Salary

$2,922.00 - $5,734.00 Monthly

Location

Jackson, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

ELMHS11.18.25AT

Department

LDH-Office of Behavioral Health

Opening Date

11/18/2025

Closing Date

11/23/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

Division: Within the Fiscal Department at ELMHS, Located in Jackson, LA

The Mission of ELMHS is to provide mental health evaluation, treatment, habilitation, and consultation for adults. Programs include inpatient interventions, jail-based evaluations, supervised group home and residential programs, forensic evaluation, care, custody, and aftercare; intermediate and long-term psychiatric services are coordinated with the total system of care in Louisiana

ELMHS is looking for a motivated, detail-oriented, and positive individual to join our team as an Accounting Technician!

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 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=139340) .

Job Duties and Other Information

In this role, you will:

+ Maintain financial records of patient monies as a separate custodial function not part of the budgeted appropriation

+ Performs a multitude of accounting functions necessary for the custodial activity of receipts and disbursements of patient funds. Responsible for posting and journalizing ledgers and preparing financial account reports for the banking function of Patients Accounts

+ Prepared detailed accounting by patient and in total for the monies maintained in the bank on behalf of the patient. Prepares the following financial reports and activities to journals and ledgers and develops and enforces policies to assist clinicians in the processing of patient activities:

+ Cash Disbursements Journal

+ Trial Balance

+ Cash Receipts Journal

+ Stale dated checks for the Louisiana Department of Treasury

+ Unclaimed property for the Louisiana Department of Treasury

+ Daily Transactions to Cash Disbursements Journal and to Cash Receipts Journal

+ Payroll for patients

+ Revenues for patients from mail and lockboxes (includes daily check of gate lockboxes on hospital grounds)

+ Checks written on patient’s behalf (Payment of bills and for personal items)

+ Interest payments to patient’s individual ledger

+ Social Security and VA payments

+ Provides financial reports to Social Security, Veterans Administration, families, and patients, Social Workers, banking institutions, auditors, attorneys and other appropriate persons, upon request. Assists family and all appropriate persons in closing accounts of deceased patients. Provides financial documentation to Clients Rights and Investigations upon request when issues arise or complaints are filed.

+ Provides check writing function for patients of care and maintenance to hospital, for personal insurances, for utility and rent bills when requested, for routine bills (such as subscriptions and clothing orders), and for processing of eye and dental clinic payments

+ Manages the Pastoral Care Fund for collections made during client services; for use in providing bibles and other supplies for the church

+ Process Certificates of Deposits and pledge securities for the accounts maintained in Patient Accounts to ensure patient funds are protected under federal security laws.

+ Prepares documents for monthly reconciliations, which includes reconciling and preparing daily, weekly, and monthly statements and reports as follows:

+ Bank statement verification

+ Book balance verification

+ Prorate of interest payments

+ Individual patient ledger balances

+ Monthly balance sheet of individual and total accounts

+ Prepares year end reports for Fiscal Director and Accountant Manager for use in reporting balances in the annual report

+ Prepares daily printout reports of cash receipts and cash disbursements to use in balancing daily deposits and check journals and for use in month end balancing of ledger and bank statements.

+ Prepares journal report monthly to balance with daily reports and bank statements. Prepares patient data reports from PIP system for use in recording data in financial files.

Position-Specific Details:

Appointment Type: Probational or Promotional

Compensation: This position is eligible for an SER rate of $18.90 an hour or $1512.00 bi-weekly

How To Apply:

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.

*Information to support your eligibility for this job title must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumeswill not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

Contact Information:

For further information about this vacancy, contact:

Leigh Moore

ELMHS HR

[email protected]

225-634-0680

Louisiana is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities.

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

01

Have you ever been on probation or sentenced to jail/prison as a result of a felony conviction or guilty plea to a felony charge?

+ Yes

+ No

02

If ‘Yes’, give the law enforcement authority (city police, sheriff, FBI, etc.), the offense, place and disposition of case. If ‘No’, enter N/A.

03

Are you a current, permanent employee at Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System?

+ Yes

+ No

Required Question

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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