ACCOUNTANT II

Salary: $65,063.00 Annually

Location : VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN FULTON COUNTY, GA

Job Type: FULL-TIME

Department: FINANCE

Opening Date: 08/14/2024

Closing Date: Continuous

Pay Grade:: 19

UNCLASSIFIED POSITION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

AREA OF ASSIGNMENT: GENERAL ACCOUNTING
*PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO CANDIDATES WITH PREVIOUS SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE*

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in accounting, finance, or related field required; supplemented by three (3) years of accounting experience to include one (1) year of lead or supervisory experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Specific License, or Certification Required: None.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in performance of the essential functions and learn, comprehend, and apply all county or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position.

EXAMINATION:

The examination will consist of a review of education and experience, accomplished by analysis of the application. Application must document that the applicant possesses the minimum knowledge, skills, education and experience as listed to be rated as eligible. If selected, an official, accredited college transcript is required, at time of employment, for all degrees/course work used to qualify for this position.

ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE COMPLETED IN FULL BEFORE THEY ARE SUBMITTED. PLEASE REVIEW ALL APPLICATIONS FOR ACCURACY AND MAKE ALL CORRECTIONS BEFORE SUBMITTAL BECAUSE ERRORS CAN RESULT IN NOT MEETING THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS. WE DO NOT ACCEPT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AFTER APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT.

Purpose of Classification:
The purpose of this classification is to perform accounting functions requiring independent judgment, including reconciling accounts, monitoring account budget status, completing transactional and informational reports, and performing administrative procedures. This classification is distinguished from Accountant I in that this classification analyzes financial data, prepares financial reports covering substantial County resources, and supervises support staff whereas the latter typically reconciles and monitors accounts and completes transactional and informational reports.

Essential Functions:
Prepares information on accounts payable, revenues, and other financial analysis for management; reconciles bank statements; designs and maintains specialized and analytical reports for decision makers; provides financial information for revenue review, program review, and program audit; and assists with budget preparation and develops recommendations.

Provides lead direction for billing, revenue collection, and customer service processes: provides guidance, assistance and training in the use of automated accounting/financial systems.as needed; monitors status of work in progress and inspects completed work; and consults with assigned staff to assist with complex/problem situations, and provide technical expertise.

Performs accounting functions for a variety of accounts and reports: enters and posts financial data; prepares journal entries; reconciles accounts; balances reports; calculates data and enters data into computer systems; researches errors and makes corrections as required; ensures timely, accurate, and complete preparation of financial statements for internal purposes, or as required by various reporting authorities; maintains financial records; prepares tax forms; and submits mandatory reports.

Processes a variety of accounts payable documentation; receives, reviews and verifies invoices, purchase orders, requests for payment, refunds, sales taxes, travel reimbursements, and/or other items.

Reviews vendor invoices for accuracy, completeness and proper authorization; enters data into accounting system for payment; prints, verifies, submits for signature and sends payments to vendors; and maintains related documentation.

Processes accounts receivable documentation; reviews cash receipts, escrow accounts, and other financial reports; records and reconciles to general ledger accounts; prepares journal entries; makes corrections or adjustments as needed; prepares spreadsheets; reviews and reconciles reports; maintains all related documentation.

Provides information and assistance to vendors, customers, taxpayers, County departments/employees, and others regarding accounting issues, customer accounts, invoices, fee schedules, deadlines, documentation, policies/procedures, or other issues; researches status of customer accounts; assists in resolving billing/account discrepancies; responds to complex questions or complaints; researches problems and initiates problem resolution.

Additional Functions:

Performs other related duties as required.

Performance Aptitudes:

Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.

Human Interaction: Acting as a first line supervisor involving assigning work, reviewing work. Requires the ability to act as a first-line supervisor, including instructing, assigning and reviewing work, maintaining standards, coordinating activities, and evaluating employee job performance.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.

Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.

Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.

Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

It is the policy of Fulton County that there will be equal opportunity for every citizen, employee and applicant, based upon merit without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, genetics, disability or sexual orientation.

01

The answers you provide to the supplemental questions will be used to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position. Your responses pertaining to specific work experience and education must be clearly shown in the areas for work history and education on your application. Your application must be completed in full before it is submitted. Please review all applications for accuracy and make all corrections before submittal because errors can result in not meeting the minimum qualifications. We do not accept additional information after your application has been received by the Department of Human Resources Management. Do you accept these conditions?

• Yes
• No

02

What is your highest level of education completed?

• High School Diploma or G.E.D. Equivalent
• Some College
• Associate Degree
• Bachelor Degree
• Master Degree
• Doctoral Degree
• None of the Above

03

In what field of study related to this position do you possess an Associate Degree, Bachelor Degree, Master Degree, Doctoral Degree or have earned college credits?

• Business Administration
• Public Administration
• Accounting
• Economics
• Finance
• None of the Above

04

If you have received some college credits related to this position, but did not receive your degree, how many college credits did you earn?

• 0 - 29 Semester Hours
• 30 - 59 Semester Hours
• 60 - 89 Semester Hours
• 90 -119 Semester Hours
• 0 - 44 Quarter Hours
• 45 - 89 Quarter Hours
• 90 - 134 Quarter Hours
• 135 - 179 Quarter Hours
• Does not Apply

05

Select the option that best describes your accounting experience.

• 6 months less than 1 year
• 1 year less than 2 years
• 2 years less than 3 years
• 3 years less than 4 years
• 4 years less than 5 years
• 5 years less than 6 years
• 6 years less than 7 years
• 7 years or more

06

Do you have direct work experience with governmental or general accounting?

• Yes, governmental experience
• Yes, general accounting experience
• Experience in both
• No experience in either

07

Please explain your response to the previous question, including the companies and employment dates you acquired the experience indicated and the describe the duties you performed.

08

How many months/years of experience do you have leading or supervising accounting staff?

• 0 less than 5 months
• 6 months to 1 year
• 1 year less than 2 years
• 2 years less than 3 years
• 3 years less than 4 years
• 4 years or more

09

What is your level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel?

• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced
• Expert
• No Experience

10

Do you have any experience with ERP systems?

• Yes
• No

11

If you responded "Yes" to the previous question, which systems and specific modules do you have experience?

12

Do you have experience performing journal entries?

• Yes
• No

13

If you responded "Yes" to the previous question, please explain including the companies and employment dates you acquired the experience indicated and the describe the duties you performed.

14

Do you have experience performing balance sheet analysis?

• Yes
• No

15

If you responsed "Yes" to the previous question, please explain including the companies and employment dates you acquired the experience indicated and the describe the duties you performed.

16

Do you have experience performing complex bank reconciliations?

• Yes
• No

17

If you responded "Yes" to the previous question, please explain including the companies and employment dates you acquired the experience indicated and the describe the duties you performed.

Required Question

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