Senior Accountant

About the role

This position is responsible for performing a variety of highly complex professional accounting and financial reporting duties to ensure compliance with governmental accounting standards, financial policies, and internal controls. The primary focus is on the monthly financial close process, which includes balance sheet reconciliations, general ledger detail reviews, and financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership to the Finance team members who perform accounting duties, including providing guidance and support during the implementation of new technology focused on improving work processes and providing excellent customer service.
• Manages and monitors the work of other accounting positions as assigned.
• Directs staff, reviews and approves accounting transactions before posting to the general ledger, as well as, reviews and approves financial reports before distribution.
• Prepares audit schedules, financial statements, notes disclosures, budget and statistical schedules related to the annual comprehensive financial report.
• Identifies and implements applicable GASB pronouncements and statements, as well as, other authoritative standards; ensures recurring transactions are being accounted for appropriately; researches and determines the appropriate accounting treatment for irregular and uncommon transactions.
• Manages and monitors lease agreements, development agreements, continuing disclosures, grants, promissory notes, contracts and other legal documents to ensure the appropriate assets and liabilities, and revenues and expenditures are recorded in a timely manner.
• Analyzes grant revenues and related reimbursable expenditures; prepares the schedule of federal awards and supports the annual single audit of federally-funded programs.
• Reviews, reconciles, and analyzes transactions for capitalization; prepares fixed asset rollforward schedules, ensures timely recording of asset acquisitions and deletions; maintains debt schedules and processes payments according to amortization schedules; monitors compliance with debt agreements and continuing disclosure requirements; ensures payments are factored into cash forecasts.
• Partners with each department to assist in managing the financial / chart of account mapping and configuration of each underlying system (i.e. decentralized, departmental point of sale, transactional, and cashiering) to ensure that revenues recorded in the general ledger reconcile with each separate system / platform.
• Analyzes and develops policies and procedures to ensure effective and efficient internal controls over the recording and reporting of financial information.
• Develops and delivers training regarding financial concepts, policies, procedures, and financial systems, as required.

Requirements

• Minimum five years of experience in a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Knowledge of GASB pronouncements and statements.
• Experience with municipal accounting and community facilities districts and special assessments management.
• Proficiency in double-entry bookkeeping and trial balance integrity.
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Self-starter who thrives in a deadline-driven environment.
• Cross-functional department experience.
• Ability to work independently and complete finance and accounting projects of a difficult and complex nature.

Qualifications

• Adaptable and resourceful.
• Strong knowledge across the full spectrum of governmental accounting functions.

Skills

• Broad Application - Work requires a comprehensive, practical knowledge of a technical field with use of analytical judgment and decision-making abilities appropriate to the work environment of the organization.
• Managerial: Semi-complex - Work requires functioning as a lead worker performing essentially the same work as those directed, and includes overseeing work quality, training, instructing, and scheduling work.
• Software, applications and tools: Become a super-user in the Financials module within Tyler MUNIS, focused in the capital asset, fixed asset, and project accounting module. Become a proficient user with the key finance and accounting software tools such as Tyler MUNIS ERP, Tyler Cashiering, Debtbook for Leases and Debt, DFast for Assessment Billing, Development Services Department’s permitting software, Accela, Park and Recreation’s reservation system, Fusion and ActiveNet, Fire Department’s EMSMc billing system, as it relates to integration to Tyler MUNIS to ensure that revenues recorded in the general ledger reconcile with each separate system/platform.

Benefits

Salary range: $86,567.37 - $128,509.87 annually.

Pay

$86,567.37 - $128,509.87 Annually

Schedule

Full-Time