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Accounting Specialist Supervisor

Salary

$3,345.00 - $6,566.00 Monthly

Location

Jackson, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

ELMHS12.16.25ASPECS

Department

LDH-Office of Behavioral Health

Opening Date

12/16/2025

Closing Date

12/23/2025 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 are in coordination with the total system of care in Louisiana

ELMHS is looking for a motivated and detail oriented individual with supervisory experience to join the team in our Fiscal department.

Minimum Qualifications

Four 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=159590) .

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

In this role, you will:

+ Serves as the manager of the General Accounting Section, including Payment Verification, Perpetual Inventory, Cost Accounting, Risk Management, IAT / Grant services and Billings, and Risk Management.

+ Need to proficient in the use of ISIS/LAGOV, which is the comprehensive information system currently being utilized by the state of Louisiana.

+ Utilize data from all systems within ISIS /LAGOV.

+ Need to be proficient in the use of BOXI. Business Objects Enterprise is the standard reporting tool offered by OIS for all adhoc reporting of ISIS and NON­ ISIS data accessible to the Division of Administration. Incumbent must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel, Mas90, and PIP/PIF.

+ Direct and manage all operations of accounts processing.

+ Supervise two Accounting Technicians in this section.

+ Be responsible for: The review and approval of all LAGOV/ISIS/WORKS related entries, cash disbursements, cash receipts. Ensure that all activities are in compliance with the Office of Statewide Reporting and Accounting Policies and are completed timely and accurately. Monitor employee's performance, conducts employee training as needed, manage employees leave according to departmental policy, and performs annual employee evaluations.

+ Direct and manage all Perpetual Inventory operations.

+ Conduct audits of accuracy and compliance with agency policies and procedures.

+ Monitor and review all purchase requisitions, packing slips and invoices for correct data, correct coding classifications, and mathematical accuracy to prepare liquidation in the form of check requisitions, credit memorandums or purchase order confirmations to ensure proper payment of invoices for the agency.

+ Monitor and review all procurement card purchases.

+ Verify acceptable documentation for each purchase.

+ Reconcile the Bank America paper statement to the electronic payment (P3 document) and distributes costs from the default accounting codes to the proper accounting codes via WORKS, the LDH procurement card management system.

+ Manage the revenue deposits and checking accounts for ELMHS.

+ Manage the revenue for the self-­generated, income not available, and enterprise funds.

+ Prepare reports on the management of expenditure coding and makes recommendation of needed corrections in cost allocations.

+ Manage the coding errors discovered between hospitals and contacts appropriate staff to make necessary corrections.

+ Extract and correlate financial information from in-house journals and ISIS to prepare weekly/ monthly/ quarterly/ annual reports used by higher level accounting professionals for the preparation of the budget, IAT billings, and the American Appraisal Report.

+ Serves as the system / Area B liaison with the Office of Risk Management and is responsible for organizational casualty and property insurance, vehicle insurance and general insurance claims.

Position-Specific Details:

Appointment Type: Probational, Promotional, or Detail

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

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

+ Yes

+ No

02

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

03

If 'YES', give the law enforcement authority (city police, sheriff, FBI, etc), the offense, place and disposition of case. If 'NO', enter N/A.

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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