STAFF ACCOUNTANT

Job Description

Job Description

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.

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 :

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.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.