Address:

Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI)
4441 East McDowell Road
Phoenix, Arizona 85008
https://corrections.az.gov/

Salary: $45,600.00

Grade: 16

Closing Date: 9/21/2025

Do you have accounts receivable and payable experience? Have you worked in a professional-level accounting office? This is the perfect opportunity to join our rewarding ACI team and help us reimagine corrections!

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) is looking to fill the Accounting Specialist I position with our Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI) team. This position is responsible for reviewing, researching, and resolving contracted inmate payroll. Researches and reconciles various general ledger accounts. Prepares and resolves customer and vendor invoices. Also prepares and provides statistical data for monthly expense income accruals, journal vouchers, and summaries of ACI contracted financial statements.

For further information about the Arizona Correctional Industries, visit: https://aci.az.gov/

- Manages, researches, and resolves issues relating to accounting transactions
- Generates reports and updates supervision of the activity
- Reviews work product of accounting clerks
- Attends mandatory training and staff meetings
- Drives on State business
- Performs other duties appropriate to the assignment

Knowledge of:
- Principles, concepts, practices, methods, and techniques of governmental accounting and fiscal management
- Rules and regulations established for the work systems
- Methods and techniques of data processing and accounting practices
- General office procedures
- Computers and various software
- ADCRR policies and procedures
- State personnel rules and federal laws pertaining to accounting

Skill in:
- Work management
- Analysis and interpretation of financial data
- Operating various office equipment and automated accounting systems
- Maintaining accounting records
- Written and verbal communications
- Establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships

Ability to:
- Calculate, analyze and reconcile data
- Utilize a variety of business computer hardware and software
- Recognize and implement efficient office and work procedures
- Work in a correctional environment with inmates

- One (1) year of experience in government equivalent to a Fiscal Service Specialist
- Completion of twelve (12) or more semester hours of accounting and one (1) year of professional-level accounting
- Formal education in accounting basic principles, procedures, mathematics, and English with at least three (3) or more years of working experience in an office accounting environment dealing in high-volume paper flow

Employment is contingent on the selected applicant passing a background investigation and a drug test.

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job, then the following requirements apply. Any employee operating a motor vehicle on State business must possess and retain a current, valid class-appropriate driver’s license, complete all required training, and successfully pass all necessary driver’s license record checks. The license must be current, unexpired, and neither revoked nor suspended. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver’s license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete all required driver training. An employee who operates a personally owned vehicle on state business shall maintain the statutorily required liability insurance (see Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.) R2-10-207.11).

In an effort to maintain a safe environment, all employees are required to take a Tuberculosis (TB) test during their New Employee Orientation and every year thereafter.

All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

We offer an excellent and affordable comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees:
- Vacation and sick days with 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program).
- Robust and affordable insurance plan to include medical, dental, life, short-term and long-term disability options
- Exceptional retirement program
- Optional employee benefits such as deferred compensation plans, credit union membership, and a wellness program
- An incentivized commuter club and public transportation subsidy program

Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave pilot program here. For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our benefits page

Positions in this classification participate in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS). Enrollment eligibility will become effective after 27 weeks of employment.

Current ADCRR Employees: Consult with your respective Human Resources Liaison if you are in a different retirement plan than the one indicated above.

The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by calling (602) 255-2430. Requests should be made as early as possible to allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.