Assistant Accountant

About Us

The Connecticut Teachers' Retirement Board administers retirement and health benefits to the State’s retired teachers, their survivors, and beneficiaries. The TRB maintains over 52,900 active accounts and provides approximately $2.2B in pension payments to 39,650 retirees annually.

The Role

The Assistant Accountant will provide customer service and support to teachers statewide in the administration of the pension system. Additional responsibilities may include auditing, account reconciliation, accounts payable, and 1099 reporting.

Position Highlights

• Monday - Friday
• Full-time (40 hours per week)
• First shift (8:00 AM - 4:30 PM)
• Location: 165 Capitol Avenue in Hartford, CT 06106
• Hybrid (This position is eligible for hybrid telework after successful completion of initial training.)

Purpose of Job Class (Nature of Work)

In a state agency this class is accountable for performing a combination of a full range of basic professional and highly complex clerical work in accounting or financial examination work.

Examples of Duties

• Maintains an interrelated group of accounts including classifying and recording transactions, taking trial balances and reconciling accounts;
• Prepares simple financial statements;
• Assists in preparation of complex financial statements;
• Examines financial documents to ensure accuracy and conformance with requirements by reviewing related records, provisions and/or regulations;
• Maintains accounts receivable including preparing and processing billings, maintaining related accounts, managing accounts receivable, making and recording adjustments, cancellations or remissions and computing interest due and penalties;
• Calculates rates involving complex arithmetical formulas;
• Responsible for accounts payable including maintaining disbursement records, distributing charges to proper accounts, encumbering appropriation accounts for purchase orders, authorizing routine expenditures, auditing invoices or payments for accuracy and compliance with state regulations;
• Gathers and consolidates payroll and expenditure data to facilitate budget preparation;
• Ensures expenditures plus encumbrances are within appropriation limits;
• Ensures routine payments are in compliance with contract provisions;
• Performs related duties as required.

Knowledge, Skill and Ability

• Knowledge of bookkeeping and financial record keeping principles and practices;
• Knowledge of basic governmental accounting principles and practices including general accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable and budget control;
• Skills: interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills;
• Considerable arithmetical ability; auditing ability;
• Ability to understand and apply statutes and regulations;
• Ability to utilize electronic data processing (EDP) systems for financial information.

Minimum Qualifications - General Experience

Four (4) years of experience in complex clerical accounting or financial examining work. Complex clerical accounting or examining work is interpreted as independent responsibility for generally routine bookkeeping, financial record keeping or financial record examining at the level of a Financial Clerk.

Minimum Qualifications - Substitutions Allowed

• College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equalling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of two (2) years.
• One (1) year as a Pre-Professional Trainee in an accounting class may be substituted for the General Experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with financial systems, such as PeopleSoft or Core-CT
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, including creating pivot tables and utilizing VLOOKUP functions and queries
• Experience in accounting, including auditing accounts, performing reconciliations, and analyzing and calculating financial data
• Experience interpreting and applying statutes and regulations
• Experience with both oral and written communication
• Experience in customer service within a call center environment

What We Can Offer You

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• Professional growth and development opportunities.
• A healthy work/life balance to all employees.