Actively supports and upholds the City’s stated mission and values. The Senior Accountant position incumbents are responsible for performing a wide variety of tasks. Duties range from routine to the most complex of accounting projects and responsibilities requiring incumbents to take initiative, make judgment calls, and make decisions for the projects/processes for which they are assigned.
In addition, employees are expected to exercise considerable judgement, initiative, and professional skills in financial administration, knowledge of acceptable accounting practices, and coordination of projects with final financial project completion.
Responsibilities
- Supervisory: This job may have leadworker responsibilities (coordinating and monitoring the work of others), but does not supervise.
- Budgetary: This job has partial responsibility for budgeting including reviewing, reconciling, and adjusting division budgets. Incumbents are responsible for having an in-depth knowledge of 10-year plans to allow for better forecasting.
- Policies/Procedures: This job has responsibility for providing input and assisting with implementation of policies and procedures.
- Compliance: This job has responsibility for ensuring compliance requirements are met for financial reporting and are presented in accordance to established accounting standards set by GAAP and GASB.
- Reporting: This job has responsibility for preparing reimbursement requests for federal, state, and intergovernmental agreements.
Additional Duties
- Works with internal divisions to assist with financial questions, analysis of data, and providing division specific input.
- Analyzes the completeness and accuracy of accounting reports and transactions.
- Prepares complex workpapers and assists external auditors on the annual financial audit.
- Prepares adjusting journals to financial records.
- Complies with financial reporting requirements as they relate to federal, state, and local grant requirements.
- Provides excellent customer service to both internal and external customers.
- Performs related duties, as assigned.
- Reviews general ledger accounts to ensure proper reporting of financial information in accordance with established accounting practices and rules.
- Completes and analyzes complex bank reconciliations, 5 Year Plans, Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) assignments and general work assignments without direct supervision.
- Attends management meetings to provide presentations and support to divisions related to financial information.
- Completes complex projects where acute accounting skills, knowledge and decision making are necessary.
- Adheres, implements and maintains established accounting standards and City of Flagstaff deadlines on complex projects.
- Provides support in complex financial data interpretation with external customers (i.e., external auditors and consultants).
- Interprets, enforces, and ensures compliance with Federal, State, and governmental accounting standards laws, rules and regulations related to grant reimbursements and reporting.
- Works in a team-based environment requiring problem solving skills, creative solutions to financial situations and negating barriers while achieving project goals and providing the highest level of customer service.
- Supports Accountant and Finance Specialist positions.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy or closely related field.
- Three years of professional accounting experience.
- Two years of governmental accounting and/or budgeting.
- Experience in complex financial reporting and analysis.
- Or any combination of education, experience, and training equivalent to the above minimum requirements.
Desired Experience and Training
- Demonstrated experience leading the work of others.
- Two years of experience with financial software systems.
Other Requirements
- Must possess, or obtain upon employment, a valid Arizona driver’s license.
- Regular attendance is an essential function of this job to ensure continuity.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (Illustrative Only)
- Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Presentation Skills: Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the public.
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
- Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to solve problems involving several concrete variables in a systematic way effectively and efficiently.
- Ability to adhere to, interpret and apply accounting principles and standards.
Physical Requirements and Working Environment
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to ten pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to fifty pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and color vision.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
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