ACCOUNTANT TECHNICIAN 1

***THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE***

Job Summary

This recruitment is for a Accountant Technician 1 position, located within the Department of Education in the Carson City office. The incumbent is to provide critical fiscal support across the Department’s comprehensive portfolio, ranging from major federal entitlement programs to complex State General Fund initiatives and recently legislated grants. This position is essential to manage the escalating volume of transactional duties such as processing accounts payable and receivable, verifying cost allocation across funding streams, and reconciling general ledgers for multiple budget accounts. This role ensures fiscal compliance and operational efficiency across the Department’s entire funding landscape. The incumbent will be responsible for developing the data required for the Indirect Cost Rate proposal, reconciling federal revenue accounts, and ensuring administrative costs are correctly allocated across the Department’s various funding streams in compliance with regulations and policies.
Accountant Technicians reconcile and monitor specific accounting and fiscal functions or activities within a department establishing or using established procedures and guidelines that are not limited to the State Administrative Manual. Reconciliation includes balancing departmental records with reports generated by the State’s central accounting system as well as federal and other accounting systems. Monitoring includes ensuring accounting functions and activities are in compliance with reporting requirements and grant specifications.

Essential Qualifications

Graduation from high school and two years of financial records maintenance experience which included such duties as controlling accounts payable/receivable; preparing financial reports for internal management use; and reconciling complex accounts; OR two years of experience as an Accounting Assistant III in Nevada State service; OR one year as an Accounting Assistant IV in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Job Duties

Control complex accounts payable functions for agencies with multiple cost/project centers, by establishing guidelines for allocating general costs to the appropriate cost centers, and ensuring procedures are followed prior to submitting documents for payment or grant draws.

Control complex accounts receivable functions to include determining the billing amount using cost accounting procedures; make determinations regarding referral of delinquent accounts.

Assist management in preparation of complex budgets by coordinating with various sections to ensure budget requests are received and reviewed in a timely manner; developing narratives for each category and general ledger account to provide justification for proposed budget request; analyzing information on past expenditures and projecting trends; making recommendations for budget adjustments as needed; and preparing special budget analysis reports to highlight problems on own initiative or as requested.

Provide fiscal management and auditing of federal or other grant monies by monitoring expenditures to ensure compliance with multiple grant specifications and complex reporting requirements; auditing records and reports of sub-grantees for compliance with grant requirements; and preparing complex financial reports in compliance with federal, grant, contractual, or other external requirements.

Manage federal draw downs in conformity with the Cash Management Improvement Act of 1990 and grant requirements; provide fiscal management and auditing of federal grant monies; track costs billable to the federal government; prepare vouchers and monitor and report status of federal funds.

Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reports including trial balances, adjustments and balance sheets; establish and maintain automated billing systems including account analysis, reconciliations and processing adjustments.

Complete fiscal year openings and closings for assigned accounts; develop internal controls on revenues and expenses; reconcile federal to State fiscal year closings; prepare annual Single Audit Reporting Form (SARF) reporting requirements for submission.

May train, supervise and evaluate the performance of assigned clerical and technical support staff; develop work performance standards and accounting policies and procedures.

Perform related duties as assigned.

Under general supervision, Accountant Technician I’s perform technical accounting duties as described in the series concept. Incumbents may supervise lower level accounting positions, or function as the highest-level accounting position in a small agency with complex accounting requirements. The Accountant Technician I is distinguished from the Accounting Assistant IV in the accounting clerical series by complexity of the accounting environment, guidelines, and reporting requirements. This is the entry level in the series and progression to the next level is not automatic.

Representative duties at a college or university may also include: In a centralized accounting/controller’s office, Accountant Technician I’s provide the final review of fiscal transactions prior to posting the entry in the general ledger. Positions review transactions for compliance with state, university, grant, other regulations and post to the general ledger. Positions enforce fiscal compliance by researching discrepancies or questionable transactions; rejecting and returning transactions to the college or department; may require payback of monies from departments or individuals; disable purchasing card or refer problem to higher authority.

In other units (academic, student, administrative), work typically centers on a business enterprise where significant income is generated. Positions perform technical accounts maintenance for a business enterprise related to academic endeavors such as accounting for income and expenses for resident physician services performed at hospitals and clinics. Other examples of specialized income generation include parking, continuing education, commercial leasing of building space. In addition to technical accounts maintenance, positions may also perform budget preparation, financial reporting, pre- and/or post-grant award accounts maintenance, budgeting and reporting (e.g. effort reporting or expense reporting to sponsor).

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

General knowledge of: accounting theory and principles; bookkeeping practices; automated accounting systems, including spreadsheet software for personal computers to allow design of or revision of financial reports.

Ability to: read, understand, and apply complex regulations and accounting guidelines and procedures; meet deadlines, prioritize and organize work and handle frequent interruptions; and effectively compose business correspondence and reports.

Recruiter Contact Information: Susan Ashley - q.ashley@admin.nv.gov

The State of Nevada is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building diverse, inclusive, and innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, domestic partnership, genetic information (GINA), or compensation and/or wages.

Please send direct Inquiries or correspondence to the recruiter listed on this announcement.

Benefits include:

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance programs for employees and their dependents/family are offered through the Public Employees’ Benefits Program (PEBP) .
  
• Vacation: Accrual of three weeks of annual leave each year.
  
• Sick Leave: Accrual of three weeks of sick leave each year.
  
• Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year.
  
• Retirement: Participation in the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) . Employees do not contribute to Social Security but will contribute to PERS if their position is at 50% or more full-time equivalency. For more information on how PERS service may impact Social Security benefits, visit the SSA publication .
  
• Deferred Compensation: The State offers a voluntary Deferred Compensation Program .
  
• No Nevada state income tax.
  
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Eligible due to public sector employment.
  
• Longevity Payments Eligibility: Employees who have received a performance rating of “standard” or better and have completed eight (8) or more years of continuous service are eligible for longevity pay.
  

Additional benefits may apply to employees covered under a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), depending on their designated bargaining unit. For more information, visit the Labor Relations Unit (LRU) .

For more details about your rights and responsibilities as a State of Nevada employee, please review the State of Nevada Employee Handbook (PDF) .

*** State Holidays The holiday schedule for State employees is established by the Legislature.

The following are legal holidays:

January 1.............................................. New Year's Day

Third Monday in January.................. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday

Third Monday in February................ Washington’s Birthday

Last Monday in May........................... Memorial Day

June 19................................................ Juneteenth Day

July 4.................................................... Independence Day

First Monday in September.............. Labor Day

Last Friday in October....................... Nevada Day

November 11........................................ Veterans' Day

Fourth Thursday in November........ Thanksgiving Day

Friday following the Fourth Thursday in November...................... Family Day

December 25........................................ Christmas Day

When January 1, June 19, July 4, November 11, or December 25 falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is the observed legal holiday. If these days fall on Sunday, the following Monday is the observed holiday. Eligibility for holiday pay is covered by the provisions of NAC 284.255

Closing Date/Time: 3/23/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

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