STAFF ACCOUNTANT id-7500
JOB SUMMARY
The purpose of this classification is to maintain the City's financial records and to assist in directing overall financial operations.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Assists in interpreting, applying, and ensuring compliance with established policies/ procedures, governmental accounting standards, and all other applicable laws, rules, regulations, and standards; initiates any actions necessary to correct deviations or violations.
- Records financial transactions, reconciles accounting records, and prepares reports.
- Maintains and monitors general ledger activity through daily, monthly, and annual posting of financial transactions, including cash receipts and journal entries; maintains accounting transactions in accordance with prescribed accounting procedures.
- Reconciles bank credit card statements; reconciles general ledger control accounts with various subsidiary journals and registers; produces necessary correspondence as needed.
- Performs administrative duties for the City's financial software to include processing live updates and assigning access to designated individuals.
- Performs a variety of general accounting/bookkeeping functions, such as preparing journal entries, balancing accounts/ledgers, balancing/reconciling reports, calculating data, researching financial discrepancies, correcting data errors, keying financial data, generating reports, or maintaining financial records.
- Performs customer service functions for employees, previous employees, other departments, vendors, customers, the public, or other individuals; provides information and assistance regarding accounting-related issues; research problems and initiates problem resolution.
- Prepares or completes various forms, reports, correspondence, accounting/financial reports, budget documents, tax statements/reports, purchase orders, check requisitions, payroll checks, accounts payable checks, requests for proposal, or other documents.
- Operates a personal computer, general office equipment, or other equipment as necessary to complete essential functions, to include the use of word processing, spreadsheet, database, email, Internet, or another computer program.
- Communicates with supervisor, employees, previous employees, other departments, City officials, financial institutions, state/federal agencies, vendors, customers, the public, and other individuals as needed to coordinate work activities, review status of work, exchange information, resolve problems, or give/receive advice/direction.
- Attends meetings as needed.
- Maintains a comprehensive, current knowledge of applicable laws/regulations, maintains an awareness of new methods, trends, and advances in the profession; reads professional literature; maintains professional affiliations; attends workshops and training sessions as appropriate.
- Performs general/clerical tasks, which may include journal entries, entering data into computer, making copies, sending/receiving faxes, filing documentation, or processing incoming/outgoing mail.
- Performs other related duties as required.
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience:
Completion of a bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, or a closely related field. Two years of accounting experience. Full working level professional knowledge and experience of general accounting principles and standards. Demonstrated experience producing spreadsheets and financial reports.
Special Qualifications:
N/A
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria; ability to exercise discretion in determining actual or probable consequences and in referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.
- Ability to apply principles of persuasion and/or influence over others in coordinating activities of a project, program, or designated area of responsibility.
- Ability to operate, maneuver, and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
- Ability to utilize a wide variety of references, descriptive, advisory, and/or design data and information.
- Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures
- Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.
- Experience producing spreadsheets and financial reports.
- Experience querying, analyzing, and reconciling information extracted an accounting system (Queries and other related reports).
- Experience identifying and analyzing problems; gathering, interpreting, and evaluating information to determine its accuracy and relevance; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives and recommend a solution.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work is sedentary which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
- Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
- Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
- Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
- Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figure s; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
