ACCOUNTANT I
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- 23 hours ago
- QuickBooks
- GAAP
- Windows
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Job Description:
**This position is a 100% "working in office" position.**
This position is primarily involved in researching, compiling and reconciling accounting information. Position is under the general supervision of the Budget Officer III.
Job duties include:
1. Advise retailers verbally or in writing of interpretations of Lottery policy and procedures, answer inquiries, and/or clarify matters in question. Review retailer sales data and payment histories to establish Lottery bonding requirements.
2. Extract and reconcile sales data from various computer systems to facilitate preparation of daily MUSL report, weekly charts/graphs to management for analysis and planning, and assist with preparation of monthly financial report.
3. Responsible for inventory of premium items including posting data to worksheets to establish and maintain records of all transactions, balance and/or reconcile worksheets and accounts to verify accuracy, and coordinate requests for premium items and monitor inventory levels.
4. Assist with answering questions from players and process claim payments to winners, reconcile daily claim center sales and weekly Athletic Commission event activity, and other activity as assigned.
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Requirements/ Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications: Post high school coursework or vocational education in accounting, finance, business administration or related field OR experience performing accounting functions including interpreting and analyzing financial data.
Preferred Qualifications:Enterprise One (E-1) experience; QuickBooks or similar accounting software.
Other: at the final selection step, in accordance with state statute Section 9-808, the Department will conduct background investigations which will include, but not be limited to, checks of police records, conviction records, national and statewide criminal records clearinghouse, and fingerprint. It is a condition of employment with the Nebraska Lottery that an applicant will supply his or her fingerprints and complete a disclosure form for the purpose of conducting a background investigation. Any individual convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude, fraud, theft, theft of services, and theft by deception and any individual whose constitutional rights have been forfeited and not restored will NOT be eligible for employment with the Nebraska Lottery.
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Knowledge of: Accounting policies and procedures; GAAP and Governmental Accounting; knowledge of enterprise accounting systems.
Skills in: Communicating effectively by telephone, face-to-face, and in writing to exchange information; maintain and reconcile accounts; extract data from established accounts and prepare reports; compute and compile financial data; using spreadsheet/database software, using Windows based PC applications.
Ability to: Using complex computerized accounting systems and/or databases; Communicating effectively with wide a variety of individuals; maintaining and organizing records.
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ACCOUNTANT I · State of Nebraska