Core Responsibilities of the Division of Financial Services. Financial Compliance & Reporting: Ensuring all business operations and financial reporting adhere to established CDHS policies, statutes, rules, regulations, GAAP, and applicable governmental accounting principles. This includes ensuring audit compliance and coordinating closely with State and Federal auditors. System and Data Management: Managing automated systems responsible for recording financial transactions, bills, payments, payroll, timekeeping, and generating required and ad hoc reports. All system data is reconciled to ensure completeness and accuracy. Internal Controls and Quality: Implementing quality improvement initiatives and maintaining adequate internal controls over all departmental financial activities. Advisory Role: Serving as a financial resource for management and program staff for policy, budget, and future planning, and representing CDHS in various fiscal and advisory groups. Southern District General Accounting. This section provides essential accounting services for CDHS programs. General Accounting Work Units. Accounts payable and inventory accounting. Travel and Pcard accounting. Program accounting. Job Assignment CDHS Financial Services is looking for a dedicated payment processing specialist to join our Southern Accounting District team. This job involves handling a large number of payments using the CORE financial system. The person in this role must ensure all payments are handled correctly, following government accounting rules and state laws. This job involves processing and submitting payment transactions in the CORE system. This includes payments for all vendor invoices, small cash reimbursements (petty cash), and employee travel reimbursements. The person in this role is responsible for ensuring payments are made on time. A major part of this job is carefully reviewing documents to make sure the payment request is authorized, complete, and accurate. The person must understand the State of Colorado's fiscal rules and CDHS procedures for processing payments. This position requires the ability to find errors when reviewing documents submitted by programs. This employee receives feedback from staff across various departments and quickly corrects data to keep the payment process accurate. This position also checks and corrects CORE system errors so that transactions are accepted for submission. The person must be able to explain accounts payable procedures and rules to staff who are not accountants. This position checks vendor statements and contacts vendors to resolve differences. Job Duties. Receive and process payment requests (for vendors, petty cash, travel, etc.) to create accurate payment transactions in CORE and meet expected timelines. Review payment requests to confirm they are accurate, include the required documentation, and have been approved in accordance with State and Department Fiscal Rules and policies. Determine whether there are issues with the paperwork or approvals for a payment request, and decide how to resolve them. This may involve requesting missing or corrected documents from the program, or deciding whether the issue needs to be escalated to a supervisor or program accountant. Search CORE vendor customer records to look up payments, fix processing errors, and find other solutions. Prepare and review upload documents (UPDOCS) to ensure payment documents load successfully into the CORE system by correctly filling out all fields in the spreadsheet, correcting fields with error messages, and verifying the CORE documents created after the upload. Reply to payment-related questions from programs or vendors, providing accurate information based on payment policies and procedures. Track rejected payment transactions and edit payment documents as requested by program accountants to ensure timely payment. Check monthly vendor statements, research unpaid invoices, and communicate problems with vendors and program staff. Decide on the best way to contact the program or vendor to resolve statement issues.