Accounting Technician

About the role

The Accounting Technician supports the Fire Department’s administrative team in providing technical and complex fiscal and clerical support. Duties include auditing, analyzing, and processing payroll transactions, reviewing and reconciling payroll records, and coordinating payroll activities.

Responsibilities

• Audit, analyze, and process complex payroll transactions involving multiple bargaining unit agreements, special compensation provisions, overtime, callback, standby, acting pay, and other premium pays associated with 24-hour operations.
• Review and reconcile payroll records, timesheets, leave balances, and automated payroll reports to ensure accurate compensation, benefit deductions, and compliance with County policies, labor agreements, and regulatory requirements.
• Research and apply payroll rules and compensation provisions contained in Memoranda of Understanding, personnel rules, payroll procedures, and applicable laws to resolve complex payroll issues and discrepancies.
• Cooky, analyze, and reconcile payroll records, timesheets, leave balances, and automated payroll reports to ensure accurate compensation, benefit deductions, and compliance with County policies, labor agreements, and regulatory requirements.
• Cooky, analyze, and reconcile payroll records, timesheets, leave balances, and automated payroll reports to ensure accurate compensation, benefit deductions, and compliance with County policies, labor agreements, and regulatory requirements.
• Cooky, analyze, and reconcile payroll records, timesheets, leave balances, and automated payroll reports to ensure accurate compensation, benefit deductions, and compliance with County policies, labor agreements, and regulatory requirements.
• Cooky, analyze, and reconcile payroll records, timesheets, leave balances, and automated payroll reports to ensure accurate compensation, benefit deductions, and compliance with County policies, labor agreements, and regulatory requirements.
• Cooky, analyze, and reconcile payroll records, timesheets, leave balances, and automated payroll reports to ensure accurate compensation, benefit deductions, and compliance with County policies, labor agreements, and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Knowledge of Excel is required.
• Ability to learn and apply complex rules, procedures, and system processes.
• Experience supporting 24/7 operations, including variable schedules, shift staffing, on-call assignments, overtime, callback, standby, and other specialty compensation programs.

Qualifications

• Typically, equivalent to completion of two (2) years of college (60 semester or 90 quarter units) with major course work in accounting, bookkeeping or a field related to the work AND two (2) years of accounting or financial office support experience.
• Additional experience as outlined above may be substituted for the required education on a year for year basis.

Skills

• Detail-oriented.
• Organized.
• Dependable.
• Capable of managing competing priorities.
• Sound judgment in a fast-paced operational environment.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off: Competitive vacation accrual; 12 holidays per year; and generous sick leave accruals.
• Health Plan: Choice of four health plans (two Kaiser HMOs, Western Health Advantage HMO, and an Anthem Blue Cross PPO) along with dental through Delta Dental PPO, and vision through Vision Service Plan (VSP).
• Retirement: Defined benefit plan under the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937.
• IRS 457 Plan: Choice of pre-tax or post-tax (Roth) employee contribution up to the IRS annual maximum.
• Retiree Medical: The County provides access to group health plan coverage to eligible retirees.

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

On-site position, Monday through Friday schedule.