Senior Accountant bei City of El Paso, TX

Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Public Administration or a related field, including a concentration of 18 credit hours in accounting, and three (3) years of professional accounting or financial management experience. 

Licenses and Certificates: None.

Under direction, participate in providing professional accounting, administrative, and advisory services for an assigned program or phase of fiscal support operations.

Plan, organize, implement, direct, and review delegated financial services functions, including recording, updating, and reporting transactions, and perform administrative and advisory duties, including complex accounting and financial analyses. Involves: Participating in the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). Oversee, balance, and reconcile general ledger statements. Prepare general journal entries (such as revenues, expenditures, and depreciation) to generate fiscal month and year-to-date balance sheets, and monitor changes in fund balance and cash flow financial statements. Analyze and prepare financial statements related to debt service, property tax distributions, and other transactions such as payroll, disbursements, revenues, or accounts payable. Oversee payroll and benefits operations, prepare year-end accruals and schedules, calculate and wire transfer funds for payroll taxes or pension contributions, and research employee concerns. Research and generate reports to assist external auditors. Perform accounting to track bond issues and other debt instruments relating to capital projects fund or construction projects, verify fund availability for change orders to construction contracts, and prepare budget transfers. Account for fixed assets and warehouse operations, including acquisitions, disposals, transfers, depreciation, and updates of the asset schedules. Prepare, enter, and post journal entries for capital purchases, depreciation, construction work in progress, retainage, accruals, and transfers between accounts, funds, or departments. Track and report expenditure of federal grant funds and monitor sub-recipient agencies to ensure expenditure of allocated funds meets grant requirements.

 

Maintain and analyze assigned financial and accounting database and allied information management systems. Involves: Enter, retrieve, and review accounting data from the centralized financial management system and personal computers or source documents such as journal entries, invoices, collection details, or budget transfers to generate financial reports. Generate periodic accounting or statistical reports to management or regulatory agencies. Analyze expenditure trends and assist in the preparation of the annual operating or capital improvement budget. Maintain network security of finance and accounting or other automated record-keeping systems, update system tables, open and close posting periods, review system output to ensure system integrity, discuss and identify solutions with programmers, correct batch errors, and train and assist system users. Project airline rates and fees, passenger facility charges, generate reports and schedules, meet with airline representatives, and review and re-calculate actual airline rates and fees upon conclusion of the fiscal year, and adjust billing accordingly.

Supervise designated employees, if assigned. Involves: Assign, schedule, guide, and monitor work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and development. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Identify and resolve staff differences, conflicts, and deficiencies. Interview applicants and recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially.

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.

Note: This is a new advertisement for Senior Accountant. You must apply if you are still interested in this position.

Important Note: The required Supplemental Questions and answers are considered an examination component and will generate a score.   

 

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, copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.