Senior Accountant - Accounts Payable

About the role

Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) is a national leader and innovator in providing services and programs to its residents through public spaces like parks, community centers, specialty gardens, and swimming pools. The mission is to support healthy people, a thriving environment, and vibrant communities by offering safe and accessible spaces for various age groups.

Responsibilities

• Review contracts and memorandums of agreement, create and maintain purchase orders, change orders, requisitions, and enter encumbrances in PeopleSoft.
• Oversee Public Works, consultant contract invoices, and work with Capital Project Development, Contract Management team, and City Purchasing to resolve purchase order encumbrance issues.
• Review and post accounts payable vouchers to ensure appropriateness of purchases and timeliness of payments.
• Maintain and enforce department and City Purchasing policies and procedures, including credit card usage; train department staff on credit card usage; oversee and reconcile Parks monthly credit card transactions with PeopleSoft 9.2 financial system.
• Review vendor statements to ensure all invoices are processed timely.
• Develop, modify, and establish Accounts Payable procedures and financial controls related to Accounts Payable.
• Prepare monthly reconciliation reports, including maintaining current reports and designing new reports, and writing ad-hoc reports as required.
• Monitor the accounts payable month-end and year-end process to ensure all vendor payments are processed in the correct accounting period and meet the City’s closing deadlines.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and training to staff and verify, audit Accounts Payable processes.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field (requires satisfactory completion of at least 24 semester hours or 36 quarter credit units in accounting with no substitution allowed) plus three years professional experience in general or governmental accounting (or a combination of education and/or training and/or experience which provides an equivalent background required to perform the work of the class).
• Desired Qualifications: Specific, in-depth use of PeopleSoft 9.2 Accounts Payable module; Experience and proficiency with PeopleSoft, Excel, and Word; Ability to interpret and apply policies and procedures to work duties; Extensive accounting experience in a governmental environment, and understanding of government infrastructure; Ability to work under pressure, multi-task, change priorities, and meet changing deadlines in a fast-paced technical environment; Provide outstanding service to internal and external customers; Collaborate with colleagues to solve problems and follow up on all outstanding issues on a timely basis; Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Special Working Conditions and Work Schedule

Hybrid work schedule at home and office; 9/80 work schedule available.

Additional Information

• This position is an underfill of a Principal Accountant position.
• The full salary range for this position is $48.07 (Step 1) – $55.96 (Step 5) hourly.