Associate Accountant

Licenses and Certificates: None.

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

Perform basic accounting and financial reporting duties. Involves: Compiling 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 (such as revenues, expenditures, and depreciation) to generate fiscal month and year-to-date balance sheets, 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.

Assist in maintaining and analyzing selected aspects of the financial and accounting database and financial management system. Involves: 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. Involves: Perform duties of supervisor or coworkers if necessary to ensure continuity of operations during absences. Advise the supervisor promptly of situations or issues that have or could lead to deviation from expected results and recommend appropriate solutions or options.

A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.

 

To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history.  We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.  

 

Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.