Accounting Specialist

Job Title: Accounting Specialist

Department: Accounting

Location: City Hall

Reports To:CFO

Salary Scale:TBD upon hire

Hours of Work: 40 hours per week

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Purpose of Job:

Positions in this class are responsible for important accounting and budgeting functions, such as maintaining a group of fund ledgers, balancing, and analyzing bank statements and reconciling with the general ledger, processing payroll liabilities, maintaining a deduction ledger for the payroll, and monitoring and analyzing expenditure accounts. Incumbents work with relative independence, and may work with clerical assistance, but are not supervisory positions.

Essential Functions: Employees in this classification must be able to perform the following duties. Physical and mental tasks related to these functions will be required. Additional related duties not listed may be required and some positions may be assigned less than all of the functions listed. The following examples do not contain every task that could be reasonably assigned. The absence of a specified task here does not imply the task cannot be assigned if related to the nature of the work, a logical assignment, or a business necessity.

Responsibilities:

· Prepares journal entries and vouchers recording cash receipts, disbursements, and inter-fund transfers. Analyzes and reconciles computer generated reports of these assignments.

· Establishes new general ledger accounts and records audit and correcting entries.

· Reconciles various bank statements, analyzes transactions, makes correcting journal vouchers, balances with the general ledger, and analyzes accounts.

· Reconciles balance sheet liabilities, analyzes transactions, makes correcting journal vouchers, balances with the general ledger, and analyzes accounts.

· Prepares summary and statistical reports of utility accounts receivable revenues following each billing cycle.

· Prepares and processes sales tax payments.

· Updates benefit providers with any additions or changes in insurance coverage, or retirement.

· Prepares payroll benefit liabilities payments by calculating employee deductions and contributions.

· Prepares payroll tax liabilities payments by calculating employee federal and state income and social security taxes and employer’s social security, unemployment, and workers compensation.

· Communicates payroll deductions to retirement administrators.

· May conduct audits of department, division or intergovernmental agency budgeting, banking, fee collection and material acquisition.

· May maintain deferred accounts, produce and maintain building reports, handle petty cash disbursements, and balance and prepare daily deposits for the department..

· Performs related work as required.

• Thorough knowledge of:
• Basic bookkeeping principles and practices.
• Ability to understand interrelationships of and prepare fiscal reports related to accounts payable, receivable, inventory and budgeting.
• Ability to perform arithmetic computations with speed and accuracy.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees and public.
• Skill in the use of business calculators and ability to operate a computer terminal.
• Completion of college level course work in accounting.

Education/Experience Preferred:

• 1-3 years of general accounting experience
• 1-3 years of experience working with payroll, accounts receivable, and accounts payable
• Associate or Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field preferred

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $15.00 - $16.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

• Saint Martinville, LA 70582 (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Saint Martinville, LA 70582: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $15 - $16