Accountant Ii

**Description**:
**RESUMES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED IN LIEU OF AN APPLICATION**

**SPECIAL INFORMATION: Deadline may be extended at the discretion of the City.**

**Description**:
Under general supervision, performs professional accounting work, including auditing, analyzing, and verifying fiscal records and reports, preparing financial and statistical reports, providing information to City staff regarding accounting practices and procedures, and reconciling general ledger accounts; assists in preparing the City's annual budgets; prepares year-end audit reports and schedules; and performs related work as required.

**SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED**

Receives general supervision from the Financial Services Manager. Exercises no supervision of staff. May provide lead direction to accounting support staff.

**CLASS CHARACTERISTICS**

This is the journey-level class in the professional accounting series. Incumbents perform the full range of routine and complex departmental accounting and record-keeping programs under only mínimal supervision. Successful performance of the work requires thorough knowledge of governmental accounting practices and procedures, fund accounting, and fiscal management.

**Examples of Duties**:

- Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job._
- Provides responsible professional and technical assistance in the administration and implementation of the City's financial, auditing, and accounting programs.
- Prepares a wide variety of financial and statistical reports, including year-end reporting, budgetary reports, assisting in the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Finance Report (CAFR), and preparing other legal documents and management analysis.
- Monitors expenditures, revenues, and budget allocations to determine the City's financial status and prepares custom reports, graphs, and schedules as needed.
- Prepares journal entries and reconciles general ledger and subsidiary accounts related to postings from payroll, accounts payable, cash receipts, and accounts receivable; prepares monthly financial statements, including distributing monthly revenue and expenditure reports to departments; prepares numerous monthly financial reports.
- Interprets, explains, and applies general and governmental accounting/auditing principles and procedures, laws, and regulations affecting the financial operations of municipal government.
- Analyzes and reconciles expenditure and revenue accounts, including bond accounts; reviews and processes appropriation transfer requests between accounts; reconciles bond statements and bank statements to the general ledger.
- Participates in and assumes responsibility for various departmental programs including financial statements, general ledger, monthly statements, and special projects accounting; conducts and prepares special studies and reports.
- Records and maintains appropriate controls for capital assets, including City-owned vehicles and land; assists in the City's purchase orders and accounts payable system, auditing and financial analysis, grant accounting, and special reports.
- Maintains and monitors the City's grant funds and ensures compliance with rules and regulations governing the use of each grant.
- Receives and tracks property tax payments; ensures that property tax bills are remitted to the proper City departments for payment authorization.
- Tracks Capital Improvement Program expenditures and allocates funds to the appropriate Capital Improvement Project account.
- Performs annual audit of the City's water inventories; conducts on-site inspections of inventories, records current levels, and reconciles any discrepancies.
- Assists in the coordination of the annual audits.
- Assists with investments, portfolio management, cash management, debt management, new financing, annexations and subdivisions, and revenue and expense projections.
- Participates in the compilation and preparation of the annual budget, including assisting other departments with budget preparation, providing personnel cost projections and estimated grant revenues and expenditures, monitoring expenditures to ensure compliance with adopted budget, and assisting in publication of the budget.
- Attends meetings, conferences, workshops, and training sessions, and reviews publications to remain current on principles, practices, and new developments in the field of accounting.
- Performs other duties as assigned.

**Typical Qualifications**:
**Education and Experience**:

- Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:_

Equivalent to graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in accounting, finance, business or public admini