What are the responsibilities and job description for the Revenue Collector position at City of Kinston?
Performs technical work in the accounts receivable billings and reconciliation and related work as required. Work is performed under the general direction of the Remittance Coordinator and Supervisor.
- Maintains the centralized billing system and miscellaneous accounts receivables for the City.
- Prepares accounts receivable invoices, monitors aging of accounts receivables and prepares monthly past due notices.
- Prepares and posts journal entries to general ledger for miscellaneous billing of damages, false alarm billing, fire violations, weed abatement, demolition, assessments and privilege licenses.
- Maintains accounting documentation and audit files and prepares monthly reporting for all accounts receivable accounts.
- Organizes and directs revenue collection activities and oversees and participates in maintaining related files and records.
- Collects, records, and issues receipts for a variety of fees, municipal payments, taxes, and charges for customers and City departments.
- Posts daily tax deposit updates from the County; verifies tax reconciliation from County. Processes and maintains gross receipt tax collection records for use in budget preparation.
- Prepares and distributes various activity reports including tax audit/settlement, debt setoff system, municipal certification and municipal tax rate reports.
- Prepares and processes revenue billings for assessments and privilege licenses.
- Composes title search information for law firms.
- Talks with customers regarding taxes, assessments, privilege licenses and utility account charges for miscellaneous billing.
- Processes paperwork for the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles regarding titles and tags.
- Processes, prints and reconciles miscellaneous billings.
- Processes and maintains occupancy tax records for use
- Assists with collections division budget and monitors expenditures.
- Serves as back up Remittance Coordinator supervisor.
- Performs related tasks as required.
- Associate's degree in accounting or closely related field; and a combination of two years of related experience including experience in accounts receivable billing, collections, and reconciliation; or any combination of experience and education equivalent to the above.
- Notary Public.
- Certified Municipal Tax Collector certification preferred.
- Experience in governmental setting preferred.
- General knowledge of collection and accounting procedures and business office operations.
- Thorough knowledge of federal and state laws and City ordinances and procedures governing the collection of City revenues and taxes.
- Some knowledge of governmental accounting procedures and fiscal management.
- Ability to plan and supervise the work of subordinates.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Ability to prepare detailed financial reports.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the general public and associates.
This work is sedentary and requires little to no exertion of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel, frequently reaching with hands and arms and occasionally requires standing and repetitive motions; work has no special vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data and observing general surroundings and activities; work has no exposure to environmental conditions; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office with typewriters and/or computer printers, light traffic).
Salary : $49,088 - $68,224
