What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Accountant position at CITY OF EL PASO, TX?
Requirements
MOS Code: 1005 (Navy), 89A (Army)
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 experience or financial management experience.
Licenses and Certificates : Some positions may require a valid Texas Driver's License Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state.
General Purpose
Under direction, supervise professional accounting, administrative, and advisory services for an assigned project, program, or phase of fiscal support operations.
Typical Duties
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: Participate in the preparation of the Single Audit Report if needed. Oversee, balance, and reconcile general ledger statements. Prepare general journal entries (such as revenues, expenditures) to generate fiscal month and year-to-date revenue and expenditure, changes in fund balance, and cash flow. Analyze and prepare financial statements related to grants or project funds. Perform research and report generation to assist management during the external audit. Track and report expenditure of federal grant funds, city projects, and sub-recipients to ensure expenditure of allocated funds meet Federal, State, and City grant or project requirements. Prepare year-end accruals and schedules. Conduct research and reconcile the project’s assets and liability balances.
Maintain and analyze assigned reports of financial and accounting databases and financial 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, 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. Identify, prepare, and process wire transfers with proper documentation to manage project cash flow and validate checks for payment. Create and post journal entries, monthly reconciliation of project billing and revenue, identify, research, and resolve project-related problems, communicate findings to supervisor, financial institution representatives, auditors, or others.
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 work leader if assigned a professional, paraprofessional, or clerical support employee as a helper. Substitute for supervisor or coworkers if necessary to ensure continuity of operations during absences. Advise the supervisor in a timely manner of situations or issues that have or could lead to deviation from expected results and recommend appropriate solutions or options.
General Information
For a complete job specification, click here.
Note: This is an unclassified contract position.
Please note: This is a new advertisement for Senior Project Accountant. You must apply if you are still interested in this position.
Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of applications have been received.
Please note: Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information.
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, 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, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.
Determined by agreement
Closing Date/Time: 5/5/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
MOS Code: 1005 (Navy), 89A (Army)
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 experience or financial management experience.
Licenses and Certificates : Some positions may require a valid Texas Driver's License Class "C" Driver's License or equivalent from another state.
General Purpose
Under direction, supervise professional accounting, administrative, and advisory services for an assigned project, program, or phase of fiscal support operations.
Typical Duties
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: Participate in the preparation of the Single Audit Report if needed. Oversee, balance, and reconcile general ledger statements. Prepare general journal entries (such as revenues, expenditures) to generate fiscal month and year-to-date revenue and expenditure, changes in fund balance, and cash flow. Analyze and prepare financial statements related to grants or project funds. Perform research and report generation to assist management during the external audit. Track and report expenditure of federal grant funds, city projects, and sub-recipients to ensure expenditure of allocated funds meet Federal, State, and City grant or project requirements. Prepare year-end accruals and schedules. Conduct research and reconcile the project’s assets and liability balances.
Maintain and analyze assigned reports of financial and accounting databases and financial 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, 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. Identify, prepare, and process wire transfers with proper documentation to manage project cash flow and validate checks for payment. Create and post journal entries, monthly reconciliation of project billing and revenue, identify, research, and resolve project-related problems, communicate findings to supervisor, financial institution representatives, auditors, or others.
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 work leader if assigned a professional, paraprofessional, or clerical support employee as a helper. Substitute for supervisor or coworkers if necessary to ensure continuity of operations during absences. Advise the supervisor in a timely manner of situations or issues that have or could lead to deviation from expected results and recommend appropriate solutions or options.
General Information
For a complete job specification, click here.
Note: This is an unclassified contract position.
Please note: This is a new advertisement for Senior Project Accountant. You must apply if you are still interested in this position.
Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of applications have been received.
Please note: Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information.
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, 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, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.
Determined by agreement
Closing Date/Time: 5/5/2026 11:59 PM Mountain