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Department of Defense, Veterans' and Emergency Management
Job Class Code: 0330B
Grade: 23 (Professional/Technical Services)
Salary: $52,659.36 - $73,885.76/Annually *Salary includes 2.25% Stipend
Location: Augusta, ME
Opening Date: November 6, 2026
Closing Date: November 23, 2026
Currently, this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or STEM OPT extensions.
DESCRIPTION: The Directorate of Facilities Engineering (DFE) is seeking a highly skilled, analytical, and detail-oriented Senior Staff Accountant to support the financial integrity, accountability, and operational effectiveness of its fiscal operations.
This position performs advanced professional accounting work involving complex governmental accounting, financial reporting, account reconciliation, internal controls, and financial systems management.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring that state and federal financial resources are accurately recorded, appropriately managed, and administered in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) standards, and applicable state and federal regulations.
Working with a high degree of independence, the Senior Staff Accountant will collaborate with financial management, procurement personnel, program managers, and state and federal fiscal partners to identify financial issues, resolve discrepancies, strengthen internal controls, and improve accounting processes.
This position requires an individual who can move beyond routine transaction processing to independently analyze financial information, identify underlying problems, develop practical solutions, and contribute to sound financial decision-making.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Financial Accounting and Reconciliation
Perform complex reconciliations of financial accounts, expenditures, revenues, encumbrances, and related accounting records.
Investigate discrepancies, determine their underlying causes, and initiate appropriate corrective actions.
Analyze nonstandard and complex accounting transactions to determine appropriate accounting treatment.
Prepare and review adjusting journal entries and other financial corrections while maintaining complete supporting documentation and audit trails.
Ensure accounting transactions are properly classified, supported, recorded, and reconciled.
Identify recurring accounting errors and recommend sustainable solutions to prevent future occurrences.
2. Governmental Accounting and Fiscal Compliance
Apply GAAP, GASB standards, governmental fund accounting principles, and applicable state and federal financial requirements.
Monitor compliance with established accounting policies, fiscal controls, funding restrictions, and reporting requirements.
Review accounting activities to ensure expenditures and revenues are recorded within the appropriate funding sources, accounts, and fiscal periods.
Evaluate complex accounting matters involving multiple funding sources and fiscal restrictions.
Identify potential compliance concerns and recommend corrective measures before they become significant financial or audit findings.
3. Financial Systems and Process Improvement
Utilize the State of Maine's Advantage financial management system to research transactions, analyze financial activity, identify errors, and support accurate financial reporting.
Evaluate existing accounting workflows, procedures, and controls to identify operational weaknesses and opportunities for improvement.
Develop and recommend improvements to accounting processes, reconciliation procedures, reporting tools, and internal controls.
Assist in designing and…