Job description for Auditor Accountant Trainee (Non-competitive) (2023-068):

Posting #: 2023-068 Issue Date: 03/09/2023 Closing Date: TBD Title: Auditor Accountant Trainee Range/Title Code: P95/50961 Salary: 46,431.86 - 48,531.07 Unit Scope: Statewide Public/Private Location: Division of Employer Accounts/Audits & Field Service (Newark, New Brunswick and Vineland) Workweek: 35 # Vacancies: 21 Job Description The Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) provides many benefits to employees to acknowledge and value their contribution. Statewide benefits include health insurance, pension, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)/Health Savings Accounts (HSA), life insurance, deferred compensation and more. The DOL also provides tuition reimbursement (after nine months of employment), a higher education program, the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and Temporary Expanded PSLF (TEPSLF) Programs, and employee training. The DOL also provides options for participation in the Telework, Alternate Workweek or Flextime Programs pursuant to the Department?s policy. As a trainee and productive worker, does the work involved in making field and office audits, evaluating program objectives and effectiveness, appraising the utilization of fiscal resources, and/in keeping financial records and reports in a state department, institution, or agency; does related work. Employee Benefit(s) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) provides many employee benefits to acknowledge, and value, their contribution. Statewide benefits include: ? Alternate Work Week* ? Telework* ? Deferred Compensation ? 100% Tuition Reimbursement* ? Health and Life Insurance ? Flexible and Health Spending Accounts (FSA)/(HSA) ? Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) ? Temporary Expanded PSLF (TEPSLF) Programs *Pursuant to the Department?s policy, procedures and/or guidelines. Civil Service Commission Requirements (Education/Experience/Licenses) EDUCATION: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor?s degree, including or supplemented by twenty-one (21) semester hour credit in professional accounting courses which may include courses in municipal or government accounting. Applicants must submit a copy of your unofficial transcripts to verify the required degree. Failure to submit unofficial transcripts with your resume may result in your ineligibility. NOTE: Possession of a valid Certification as a Certified Public Accountant or Registration as a Public Accountant issued by the New Jersey State Board of Accountancy may be substituted for the required degree in accounting. RESUME NOTE: Eligibility determinations will be based only upon information presented on the resume along with other supporting documents. Applicants who possess a degree from a college or university outside the United States must provide an evaluation of the transcripts from a recognized evaluation service at the time of submission. Failure to do so may result in your ineligibility. VETERANS PREFERENCE: Are you a veteran: Is so, proof your NJ Veterans Preference is required at application. Please provide a copy of your New Jersey Civil Service Commission NOTIFICATION OF VETERANS STATUS along with your cover letter and resume. For information on how to apply for Veterans Preference in the State of NJ, please visit the Civil Service Commission?s website at http://www.state.nj.us/csc/seekers/veterans. ADVANCEMENT: Appointees who successfully complete the 12-month training period will be eligible for advancement to the title Auditor 1 in accordance with Civil Service Commission procedures. The inability of an employee in a trainee title to attain a level of performance warranting advancement shall be considered cause for separation. COUNTY PREFERENCE FORM NOTE: Applicants must complete the County Preference Form. Failure to return the completed County Preference Form may result in your inability to be considered for the County of your choice. LICENSE: Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position. SAME APPLICANTS: If you are applying under the NJ ?SAME? program, your supporting documents (Schedule A or B letter), must be submitted along with your resume by the closing date indicated above. For more information on the SAME Program visit their Website at: https://nj.gov/csc/same/overview/index.shtml , email: SAME@csc.nj.gov , or call CSC at (833) 691-0404. TO APPLY If you qualify, please submit a letter of interest and your resume (including the best contact number and email address) to email address listed below. Your submission must be received by the closing date and include the job posting number. EMAIL: Human Capital Strategies Recruitment Unit LWDJobPostings@dol.nj.gov Subject line must include the specific job posting number. - Newly hired employees must agree to a thorough background check that may include fingerprinting. - Any appointments made from postings, which involve movement between unit scopes, may result in a forfeiture of rights to any promotional list in a former unit scope. - As of September 2010, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14-7, the ?New Jersey First Act,? all new employees must reside in the State of New Jersey, unless exempted under the law. If you do not live in New Jersey, you have one year after you begin employment to relocate your residence to New Jersey, or to secure an exemption. - Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States according to the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services regulations. NJDOL does not provide sponsorship or accept student OPT/CPT programs, F1 or H1B work authorization visas. The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development County Preference Form Name: Posting Number: Title: Please check the county (or counties) of preference for the above position and return this form with your cover letter and resume. Please only check those counties where you will accept employment, if offered. A failure to accept employment when offered in a county you indicated, will remove you from consideration for all counties. (There is no guarantee that you will be employed in that County if selected for the position.) .Atlantic .Bergen .Burlington .Camden .Cape May .Cumberland .Essex . Gloucester . Ocean . Hudson . Passaic . Hunterdon . Salem . Mercer . Somerset . Middlesex . Sussex . Monmouth . Union . Morris . Warren Failure to return the completed County Preference Form with your cover letter and resume may result in your inability to be considered for the County of your choice. New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS DISCLOSURE STATEMENT In accordance with the Uniform Ethics Code adopted by the NJ State Ethics Commission and the State Policy Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJ DOL) requires the disclosure of all relatives, consensual personal relationships, and cohabitants. No NJ DOL employee may supervise or exercise any authority with regard to personnel actions involving their relative, anyone with whom there is a consensual personal relationship, or anyone with whom they cohabit. Relative means an individual?s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner1 or the individual or spouse?s/domestic partner?s/civil union partner?s parent, child, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin, grandparent, grandchild, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother or half-sister, whether the relative is related to the individual or the individual?s spouse/domestic partner/civil union partner by blood, marriage or adoption. 1 Domestic Partner as defined in NJSA 26:8A-1 et. seq. and Civil Union status as defined in NJSA 37:1-28 et. seq. Consensual personal relationship means marriage, engagement, dating or other ongoing romantic or sexual relationships. Cohabitant means non-related persons who share a household under circumstances where there is financial interdependence. The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development requires the disclosure of all relatives and consensual personal relationships to be promptly reported directly to the Division of Human Capital Strategies (HCS), Director?s Office. Confidentiality shall be maintained to the extent possible and practicable. This information may be shared with NJ DOL?s Equal Employment Opportunity Office and/or the NJ DOL Ethics Office as deemed necessary. Upon receiving notice of the relationship, HCS may address any situation as necessary in consultation with the EEO Office and/or the Ethics Officer. This may include, but is not limited to, the changing of reporting relationships or transferring any of the employees involved. Failure to provide notification to HCS may result in discipline up to and including termination and the denial of legal representation and indemnification by the State in the event that a lawsuit is filed having a connection with a personal relationship. Employees are under a continuing obligation to promptly report personal relationships that develop during the course of their employment. I DO NOT have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. I DO have a relative or a consensual personal relationship, as defined above, with anyone working for the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development identified as follows: Name Relationship Division and Work Location Do you need more space for disclosure? Yes No If YES, continue writing on the back of this form. I certify that the information on this form to the best of my knowledge and belief is true, complete and accurate. I understand that any misleading or incorrect information, willful misstatement, or omission of a material fact, may be just cause for disciplinary action up to and including termination. I understand my obligation to promptly report personal relationships that develop during the course of my employment. Applicant/Employee?s Name (Print) ______________________________________ Applicant/Employee?s Signature Date
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