Associate Accountant

About the role

Under general supervision, assist with providing professional accounting, administrative, and advisory services for an assigned program or phase of fiscal support operations.

Responsibilities

• Compile specified details used in the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).
• Balance and reconcile designated portions of general ledger statements, prepare selected general journal entries, and identify changes in fund balance and cash flow financial statements.
• Analyze and prepare portions of financial statements related to debt service, property tax distributions, and other transactions such as payroll, disbursements, revenues, or accounts payable.
• Support payroll operations, prepare year-end accruals and schedules, calculate and wire transfer funds for payroll taxes or pension contributions, and research employee concerns as assigned.
• Research and generate specific reports to assist external auditors with accounting to track bond issues and other debt instruments relating to capital projects fund or construction projects, or to verify fund availability for change orders to construction contracts.
• Participate in accounting for fixed assets, including acquisitions, disposals, transfers, depreciation, and updating the assets schedules.
• Prepare, enter, and post selected journal entries for capital purchases, depreciation, construction work in progress, retainage, accruals, and transfers between accounts, funds, or departments.
• Track and report expenditure of designated federal grant funds and monitor assigned sub-recipient agencies to ensure expenditure of allocated funds meet grant requirements; prepare specified Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms for subcontractors.
• Aid in maintaining and analyzing selected aspects of the financial and accounting database and financial management system.
• Enter, retrieve, and review specific accounting data from the centralized financial management system and personal computers or source documents such as journal entries, invoices, or budget transfers to generate financial reports.
• Generate specific periodic accounting or statistical reports to management or regulatory agencies.
• Correct and post designated batch errors from City cashiers.
• Assist in the analysis of expenditure trends and compilation of detailed used in preparation of the annual operating or capital improvement budget.
• Perform related duties as required.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business, Public Administration, or a related field, including a concentration of 18 semester credit hours in accounting.
• Licenses and Certificates: None.

Skills

• No Knowledge
• Somewhat Knowledge
• Good Knowledge
• Very Good Knowledge

Benefits

• LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE
• VACATION LEAVE
• SICK LEAVE WITH PAY
• ACCIDENT WITH PAY LEAVE
• PREGNANCY LEAVE
• LEGAL HOLIDAYS

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

N/A