Job Requisition ID: 47660
Closing Date: 07/10/2025
Agency: Department of Children and Family Services
Class Title: ACCOUNTANT – 00130
Skill Option: None
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Starting Salary (Effective 7/1/25) $4954 a month; Full Range $4954 – $6894 a month
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
County: Cook
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC062
Merit Comp Code:
This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.
All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through the illinois.jobs2web.com website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the SuccessFactors employee career portal. Please attach your resume, official transcripts, licenses, along with any other supporting documents. This can be uploaded to MY DOCUMENTS section of your application. This is HIGHLY recommended.
Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.
POSTING IDENTIFICATION NUMBER 47660
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Position Overview
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is seeking an organized, professional, and results oriented individual to serve as Financial Review Worker. Under general supervision, this position will perform professional accounting and auditing work, utilizing accounting principles, methods, and techniques which are specifically related to the Department’s Financial Review Program. The position will conduct field audits, limited audits, and desk reviews of private agencies within assigned areas, reviewing financial statements to ensure accuracy and compliance with state and federal laws, rules, and procedures. This position will prepare comprehensive audit reports of results and will serve as liaison with private agencies within assigned areas. This position provides a great opportunity for a motivated individual who is interested in putting their professional accounting and auditing abilities to use in the Department’s Financial Review Program. DCFS offers a competitive compensation plan, excellent benefits, and a pension program. The ideal candidate for this position will have excellent organizational skills and strong accounting skills. We invite you to join our innovative team to help make a positive difference in the lives of the children and families of Illinois.
Essential Functions
- Serves as Financial Review Worker
- Prepares comprehensive audit reports of results from field audits, limited audits, and desk reviews of private agencies and communicates findings to supervisor and Department management
- Serves as liaison with private agencies within assigned areas to resolve discrepancies and problem areas found in the course of the field audit/limited audit/desk review
- Attends and provides input into staff meetings
- Confers with management in the resolution of more difficult, complex private agency field audit findings
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four years of college, with courses in business administration and accounting OR four years of technical accounting experience
Preferred Qualifications
- 2 years of experience in an office setting applying elementary knowledge of professional accounting and auditing theory, principles, methods, and procedures
- 2 years of experience in an office setting applying elementary knowledge of the laws, rules, and regulations relating to state or non-state accounting or auditing procedures
- 2 years of experience in an office setting performing detailed work involving the application of accounting theory to routine accounting or auditing problems
- 2 years of experience in an office setting evaluating accounting problems of moderate difficulty and analyzing and interpreting less complex accounting records and reports
- 2 years of experience in an office setting performing detailed work involving written or numerical data and making mathematical calculations rapidly and accurately
Conditions of Employment
- Requires ability to pass a background check.
- Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties. Requires appropriate, valid driver’s license.
- The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description
About the Agency
DCFS is deeply committed to the welfare and protection of children. Our goal is to protect children by strengthening and supporting families. In every effort, from receiving hotline calls to reaching family reunification or foster care and adoption, children and families are our focus. The Division of Budget and Finance plays a supporting role in the Department’s operations by working to ensure the agency’s financial stability and implementation of sound budgetary practices
Work Hours: Monday – Friday 8:30am – 5pm
Work Location: 15115 Dixie Hwy, Harvey, Illinois, 60426
Agency Contact: Fisayo Oyadeyi
Email: Fisayo.Oyadeyi@illinois.gov
Posting Group: Fiscal, Finance & Procurement; Legal, Audit & Compliance; Social Services
Upward Mobility Program (UMP)
This title is within the Upward Mobility Program (UMP). General Program information can be found by clicking on the Upward Mobility Program link or for specific title information at UMP Titles. To utilize upward mobility contractual rights for this position, employees must apply internally and must upload a copy of the UMP grade notice to their application documents prior to submission. UMP grades can be uploaded to the Additional Documents OR Grade Documentation section of the application.
