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Job Class Code: 0329
Grade: 20 Professional/Technical
Salary: $21.09 - $29.46/Hour *Salary includes 2% Stipend
Location: Augusta
Opening Date: July 23, 2026
Closing Date: August 6, 2026
Currently, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or STEM OPT extensions.Would you like to join a dynamic group supporting critical state departments? The Security and Employment Service Center (SESC) is looking for people committed to providing financial services and human resources support to the Departments of: Public Safety; Labor; Professional and Financial Regulation; and Defense, Veterans, and Emergency Management.
Financial Service Centers provide professional financial expertise to manage the financial activities of multiple departments and bureaus, with accounts that vary in size and complexity. Services for customer agencies include accounting and financial processing, cash management, budget development and monitoring, financial analysis, grant management, legislative support, and administrative functions.
As a Staff Accountant at the Department of Administrative and Financial Services in the Security and Employment Service Center (SESC), you will work closely with agency managers and program administrators to determine financial status and reporting requirements, identifying ways of using accounting data for management purposes. The position is based in Augusta, Maine with some telework availability.
If you're someone who thrives in a fast-paced setting, enjoys solving real-world organizational challenges, and wants work that helps keep Maine's critical public services strong, we'd love to meet you.
Primary responsibilities include: - Processes required transactions accurately and timely according to established schedules.
- Reconciles accounts to ensure accuracy, identify problems and recommend changes, to help prevent future discrepancies and to ensure overall accuracy and reliability of financial operations.
- Prepares and reviews program financial reports, ensuring accurate communication of critical financial information is distributed to internal and external customers.
- Monitors budget balances, identifies discrepancies, and formulates corrective actions to ensure accurate financial oversight, enabling program and accounting management to make informed decisions and optimize resource allocation.
- Reviews, analyzes, and researches financial data to resolve issues to ensure reasonableness and accuracy.
- Confers with financial and program staff in order to explain accounting policy and process and resolve accounting discrepancies or disputes associated with account balances and reconciliations, reporting clarifications, payment authorizations, expenditures, and budget balances.
Preference will be given to candidates who have at least 6 years of combined relevant education and/or experience providing complex technical support to professional accounting staff.
The backgrounds of well-qualified candidates will demonstrate the following competencies:
- Experience and/or education which demonstrates a knowledge of GAAP/ GASB;
- Analytical skills to review financial data and reach logical conclusions;
- Experience performing complex reconciliations;
- Ability to identify problems and make/recommend needed corrections;
- Good communication skills within the SESC team and with agency personnel;
- Possess good critical thinking skills, be flexible and adaptable to a fast-paced environment.
Contact information:Questions about this position should be directed to Jon Umland at jonathan.m.umland@maine.gov
No matter where you work across Maine state government, you find employees who embody our state motto-"Dirigo" or "I lead"-as they provide essential services to Mainers every day. We believe in supporting our workforce's health and wellbeing with a valuable total compensation package, including:
- Work-Life Fit - Rest is essential. Take time for yourself using 13 paid holidays, 12 days of sick leave, and 3+ weeks of vacation leave annually. Vacation leave accrual increases with years of service, and overtime-exempt employees receive