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Senior Accountant

4 months ago

Albany, United States City of Albany, OR Full time
Salary: $34.50 - $46.58 Hourly

Location : Albany, OR

Job Type: Regular, Full-time

Job Number: 00841

Department: Finance

Opening Date: 05/21/2024

Closing Date: Continuous

General Description

The City of Albany Finance Department is hiring for a Senior Accountant. This position is responsible for providing a professional level of accounting and finance support, including treasury management, biennial budgeting, annual auditing, and financial reporting. Conducts forecasting and modeling, performance monitoring and management reporting for all governmental funds. This position will work with operating departments to develop accounting procedures, ensure compliance, and provide technical advice; and performs related work as required.

The general working hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Salary Information:
Effective July 1, 2024, this position will receive a cost-of-living adjustment (salary increase) of two percent (2.0%).

Benefits include:
  • Excellent medical, vision and dental benefit package for the employee and qualified family members with low monthly out-of-pocket As of July 1, the employee-paid premium is approx. $51/mo. for employee-only coverage up to a max of $147/mo. for family coverage.
  • City-paid contribution to a VEBA Trust account for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Currently, the annual contribution is $1,000 for employee-only and $2,000 for employee plus dependent(s).
  • Paid time off -
    • 10 paid holidays plus an additional 24 hours of "floating holiday" pay per year
    • 8 hours of sick leave per month
    • 8 hours of vacation leave per month, with progressive increases
    • 80 hours of professional leave at the beginning of each new fiscal year
Excellent retirement benefits -
  • City-paid participation in the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (OPSRP and IAP)
  • City-paid contribution into pre-tax deferred compensation plan
In addition, other benefits such as education reimbursement, employee assistance program, basic life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and flexible spending accounts for healthcare and child care expenses.
Essential Functions/Duties & Responsibilities

The duties listed are intended only as illustrative examples of the various types of work that may be performed by individuals in this classification. Any of the following duties may be performed. These examples are not necessarily performed by all incumbents and do not include all specific essential functions and responsibilities the incumbent may be expected to perform.
  1. Monitors the City's financial activities; preparation of monthly journal entries; reconciling ledgers, subsidiary ledgers, grants, and intergovernmental agreements to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to professional standards.
  2. Oversees the City's cash management practices including monitoring, identifying and reconciliation of cash transactions. Reviews existing practices and works with staff to improve efficiency and effectiveness of procedures.
  3. Assists in the preparation of the City's biennial and supplemental budgets which includes generating budget worksheets and meeting reporting requirements in accordance with state and local budget laws and regulations.
  4. Prepares financial reports, including reconciliation of accounts, drafting narratives, performance measurement reporting and ensuring financial and written information are consistent; includes distributing monthly revenue and expenditure reports to departments.
  5. Maintains the integrity of accounting data, chart of accounts, and assists with safeguarding the City's assets against loss from unauthorized use and transactions are executed in accordance with management's authorizations.
  6. Acts as project lead for the City's annual audit, provides information and documentation to external auditors; prepares audit work papers; prepares year-end and closing journal entries; drafts financial statements, including GAAP adjustments; and gathers historical and statistical data.
  7. Prepares the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) ensuring the ACFR receives an unmodified auditors' opinion and no material internal control findings and the ACFR is awarded the Governmental Finance Officers Association's (GFOA) "Certification of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reports."
  8. Assists Finance Manager in researching, analyzing, and recommending processes and procedures, internal and system controls for new and/or complex financial transactions and to implement new Governmental Accounting Standards Board pronouncements or similar federal or state rules changes, including coordination development and documentation of any new process or procedure.
  9. Implements, tests, and monitors internal controls including training staff and reviewing appropriate controls are in place and procedures are defined.
  10. Provides technical assistance to City personnel on internal controls, financial management, and audit procedures associated with the general ledger and subsidiary ledger systems, including those not integrated with the general ledger.
  11. Performs financial costing and assists with other financial-related issues for the City for collective bargaining.
  12. Conducts special projects such as financial reports, rate studies, and miscellaneous reports for other departments as requested.
  13. Represents the City of Albany by responding to the public, citizens, its employees, and others in a prompt, professional, and courteous manner while continuously maintaining a positive customer service demeanor. Regards everyone, internal and external, as a customer and deliver the best service possible in a respectful and patient manner. Acts ethically and honestly; applies ethical standards of behavior to daily work activities and interactions. Builds confidence in the City through own actions.
  14. Works to create a high-performance work culture by demonstrating a positive attitude and modeling the City's mission, vision, and values. Conducts self with high integrity, proactive in conserving City resources, and seeks and incorporates customer feedback for ongoing performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality customer service.
  15. Effectively promotes and supervises a safe work environment. Complies with all safety rules and performs work in a safe manner. Ensures staff maintain a safe working environment in compliance with Federal, State, and City health and safety guidelines and regulations.
  16. Serves as a member of various City committees as assigned.
  17. Assists other staff in the performance of their duties as assigned; and may provide training and orientation to new assigned personnel.
  18. Arrives to work, meetings, and other work-related functions on time and maintains regular job attendance.
  19. Adheres to appropriate attire, grooming, and hygiene standards established for the position.
  20. Performs other related duties as required/assigned.

Supervision/Lead Work Exercised

Works under the general guidance and direction of the Finance Manager.

This is a non-supervisory position. Lead work/coordination of the work of others is not a typical function assigned to this position. Incumbents in this position will provide training and orientation to newly assigned personnel.
Qualifications & Requirements

Education and Experience:
A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration or management, or closely related field
AND
Four years of progressively responsible experience in government accounting, including audit and GAAP financial reporting, leadership
OR
An equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job duties as listed above. Preference given for having a CPA license or the GFOA's Certificate in Public Financial Management preferred.

Special Requirements:
The individual shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of themselves or others.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of: principles, practices, and methods of public and governmental accounting, including budgeting and auditing procedures and their application to accounting and municipal operations; applicable Federal, State, local statutes, ordinances and charter relating to municipal finance; advanced computerized accounting systems, internal controls, and the principles and practices of finance administration; Government Accounting Principles and GAAP accounting, Oregon Budget law, budgeting and forecasting techniques; record keeping principles and procedures; and grant and/or contract management principles and practices.

Skill in: working in government enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and other financial software applications; using excel for research and calculation of data; organizing and interpreting data from various sources for reconciliation and analysis; and principles and practices in project management.

Ability to: analyze financial data and make accurate arithmetic, financial, and statistical computations; prepare clear, complete, and concise financial statements and reports; interpret, apply, and ensure compliance with Federal, State, and local policies, procedures, laws, and regulations; organize and prioritize a variety of projects and multiple tasks in an effective and timely manner to meet critical time deadlines; establish and maintain a variety of filing, record-keeping, and tracking systems; use tact, initiative, prudence and independent judgment within general policy, procedural and legal guidelines; establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, other agencies, public officials, and the public; effective communication both orally and in writing; understand and carry out written and oral instructions; operate modern office equipment including, word processing, spreadsheet programs, or other software applications as required for the position.

Work Environment
In the performance of the job duties, the employee will be working in an office environment under usual office working conditions. Work may also be performed in meeting settings in offices, conference rooms, and public spaces. The noise level in the work area is typical of most office environments, with telephones, personal interruptions, and background noises.

Physical Demands
The factors described herein are representative of, but not all-inclusive of, those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
  • Balancing: sufficient to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
  • Climbing: sufficient to ascend or descend ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
  • Crawling: sufficient to move about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
  • Crouching: sufficient to bend the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
  • Feeling: sufficient to perceive attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
  • Fingering: sufficient to pick, pinch, type, or otherwise work, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
  • Grasping: sufficient to apply pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
  • Handling: sufficient to pick, hold, or otherwise work, primarily with the whole hand.
  • Hearing: sufficient to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
  • Kneeling: sufficient to bend legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
  • Lifting: sufficient to raise objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
  • Mental Acuity: sufficient to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
  • Pulling: sufficient to use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
  • Pushing: sufficient to use upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
  • Reaching: sufficient to extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
  • Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
  • Speaking: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
  • Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
  • Stooping: sufficient to bend body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
  • Talking: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
  • Visual Acuity: sufficient to observe violations of codes, to effectively operate standard office equipment; ability to read and write reports, correspondence, instructions, drawings, etc. both day and night.
  • Walking: sufficient to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.


The City of Albany offers a generous benefits package to employees and eligible dependents.

For a complete and detailed overview of the nonbargaining benefits package,

Salary and benefits are defined by City policy and/or subject to City Council approval.

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What is your highest level of education?
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Associates Degree
  • Bachelors Degree
  • Masters Degree
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Please list your degree field. (If no degree, type N/A)

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How many years of progressively responsible experience do you have in governmental accounting?
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