Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists with maintaining an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close process
• Prepares routine journal entries, year-end accruals, and account reconciliations to ensure data and general ledger integrity
• Performs budget to actual and trend analyses. Documents explanations for significant fluctuations or financial irregularities, researching as necessary
• Evaluates the soundness, adequacy, and application of financial and operating controls
• Conducts cash audits and prepares reports and recommendations for improvements in operations
• Observes and tests physical inventories of supplies and fixed assets, reporting on observations and any findings
• May reconcile quarterly external grant reporting or reimbursement requests, as assigned
• Monitors deadlines and coordinates timely reporting of financial information and deliverables due throughout the year to internal departments, external partners, and regulatory agencies
• Assists with supplemental reporting for State/Federal/Local Government Commission requirements
• Collaborates on revisions and recommendations for accounting policies and procedures
• Assists and provides support for special projects to drive accuracies and efficiencies in operations and reporting. Initiatives may involve collaboration with multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Prepares fiscal analyses of agency reviews for City annual funding to external not-for-profits
• Maintains an understanding of the ERP PeopleSoft accounting system and the interaction of sub-modules. May collaborate on system design decisions as these relate to assigned work areas

Typical Qualifications

Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business or public administration and two years of professional finance, budget analysis or accounting experience
OR
An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above, unless otherwise subject to any other requirements set forth in law or regulation.
Preferred Qualifications:
2 years of accounting and/or auditing experience
Prior working knowledge of an Enterprise-Wide Financial System
Prior working knowledge of annual reporting process

Additional Information

Knowledge of:

• Principles and practices of program administration and management
• Principles and applications of critical thinking and analysis
• Principles and methods of qualitative and quantitative research
• Best practices, trends and emerging technologies
• Project management principles
• Modern budget practices
• Applicable federal, state and local laws, codes, regulations
• Customer service principles
• Specialized equipment relevant to area of assignment

• Managing fiscal processes, project or program
• Gathering data, analyzing findings and applying logic and reason
• Researching industry trends, solutions and best practices
• Interpreting, monitoring and reporting financial information and statistics
• Authoring and preparing original reports, documents and presentations
• Monitoring project schedules, status and compliance
• Organizing and maintaining fiscal program/process documentation, schedules, records and files
• Coordinating deadlines and prioritizing competing demands
• Interpreting and applying applicable laws, codes, regulations and standards
• Providing customer service
• Utilizing a computer and relevant software applications
• Utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisors, the general public and others to sufficiently exchange or convey information and to receive work direction