Property Office Auditor

Job Responsibilities

Who we are:

At the South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR), we are funding a better state to live, work, and play. Offering excellent benefits, hybrid work schedules, tuition assistance, and self-development opportunities, we are a trustworthy partner to our customers and an innovative workplace that supports work-life balance and empowers our employees to reach their highest potential. Open the door to a career at the SCDOR and discover why 93% of our employees agree that they understand how their work directly contributes to the SCDOR's overall success-by collecting 96% of South Carolina's general fund, our team serves with purpose and impacts the success of our community.

Learn more about why you should join our team at dor.sc.gov/careers.

We are looking for teammates who are:

• Knowledgeable of accounting and auditing principles and practices

• Able to interpret and analyze financial data, records, reports, and local government tax data

• Effective in establishing and maintaining effective working relationship with internal and external customers, and local government officials

• Eager to exercise judgement, discretion and confidentiality

• Expected to work independently and take initiative

What you will do:

As a Property Office Auditor, you will focus on completing audits for business personal property, legal residence, homestead exemptions, property tax exemptions, and manufacturing to ensure compliance with both Federal and State laws. You will work with taxpayers, CPA's attorneys, and county and local government officials.

Primary job duties include:

• Performing complex audits of legal residence and homestead exemptions

• Serving as a local government liaison for legal residence and homestead determination and audits

• Researching and interpreting documents from state and local government agencies

• Analyzing assets repots to ensure proper classification of assets

• Analyzing and researching Business Personal Property reports

• Reviewing property audit findings and making determinations for referrals to necessary SCDOR divisions

• Communicating detailed local government tax law and audit findings to key stakeholders

• Assisting in preparing tax law presentations for local government officials

• Keeping knowledge of Federal and State laws that impact current SCDOR processes

Minimum and Additional Requirements

Either:

• A bachelor's degree with multiple accounting courses (Transcript required)

• A bachelor's degree and one year of experience in accounting, auditing, finance, insurance, or tax preparation and/or analysis

• An associate's degree and three years of experience in accounting, auditing, finance, insurance, or tax preparation and/or analysis

• Relevant experience or education may be substituted on a year-for-year basis with an approved equivalence by the Division of State Human Resources (DSHR)

Additional Requirement:

• A valid driver's license. (Position may require travel to a county for an audit. Mileage reimbursement is provided.)

Academic degrees must be from an accredited institution of higher learning.

Preferred Qualifications

Accounting hours

Additional Comments

• EEO: The SCDOR is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, and pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation.

• Training: Property Office Auditor's will participate in a training program to ensure they have the knowledge and skills to successfully perform their job.

• Hours: Flexible hours may be available from 7:00 a.m.

• 6:00 p.m., Monday

• Friday (37.5 hours per week).

• Telework schedule: This position may be eligible to work remotely up to two days per week.

Ready to apply?

• Apply online and complete the application fully, including all current and previous work history and education.

• You may submit a resume, but it will not be considered as a substitute for completing the entire application.

• Please include college transcripts (if applicable) by attaching them to your application or emailing employment@dor.sc.gov.

• Candidates selected to move forward in the hiring process will be contacted to complete an aptitude or skills assessment and personality profile (using Criteria Corp) and may be contacted to complete a one-way virtual interview (using Spark Hire).

• Candidate selected for hire are required to comply with all SCDOR tax requirements and are subject to a National Criminal Background Check, which includes fingerprinting.