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Senior Accounting/Payroll Specialist (Promotional)

City of El Paso
El Paso, TX Other
POSTED ON 6/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/9/2026
MOS Code: 42A (Army)

Education and Experience: A High School diploma or GED, or higher and six (6) years of budget, accounting or payroll support experience.

Licenses and Certificates: None.
Under direction, direct or perform highly responsible and complex paraprofessional fiscal support functions related to centralized accounts payable or receivable, or payroll or pension processing, verification, documentation and authorization, or for represented and non-represented employees, as assigned.
 
Oversee or engage in automated and manual review, reconciliation and issuance of diverse or intricate batch and individual payments, billings, collections, deposits, transfers, restitutions and adjustments. Involves: Check records and forms received to ensure validity of initial identification, transaction codes, and time, quantity or monetary debits and credits, finalize posting of transactions to official city journals, and authorize payment and receipt of funds. Perform and verify calculations, including pro-ratings, and effect on general ledger balances in relation to budget appropriations. Investigate and resolve discrepancies, complaints and procedural problems pertaining to such matters as, direct deposit, electronic pay, deferred compensation, loans, garnishments, federal and state income taxes, expense allowances, other supplemental pay, vacation payoffs, insurance refunds, workers’ compensation, educational assistance, employee training, property and event fees, city services, franchises, lease reimbursements, voluntary deductions, special privileges, annexations, drug testing, timekeeping system licenses, and procurement card audits, within the bounds of standard practice or obtaining guidance from functionally responsible professions regarding acceptable treatments in unprecedented situations. Develop and maintain master spreadsheets to track budget or other financial activity for multiple departments, and generate various periodic and special summary and analytical accounting or statistical reports to management or regulatory agencies. Set up and cancel, and open and close accounts each cycle. Query, compare and balance such information as current and previous accounting cycle totals, gross and net amounts and initiate retroactive corrections as warranted. Print and void checks, advices, invoices and vouchers, and send and receive wire transmittals. Prepare correspondence or personally counsel employee, retirees, beneficiaries, vendors, businesses and citizens of payroll or accounting activities, balances and legal requirements.
Oversee and perform payroll processing and provide related human resources support. Involves: Monitor payroll preparation and processing to include, sick leave, Family Medical Leave (FMLA), and vacation. 
 
Monitor departmental accounting/payroll clerks and specialists during, and participate in development and maintenance financial and human resource database management system, which includes analyzing information archived and processed to ensure quality. Involves: Enter, retrieve and review accounting data from centralized financial management system or source documents to detect processing exceptions and computation mismatches associated with installation of software upgrades and patches. Implement updates of reference tables such as rate schedules and identification codes. Request and review daily reports to assess system performance and advise users of errors. Provide backup assistance to other staff to ensure continuity of services.

Supervise or serve as lead worker to designated employees. 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. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards. Interview applicants. Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, merit pay or other employee status changes. 
 
For a complete job specification, click here.

Please note: This position is limited to City of El Paso employees presently working in the Streets and Maintenance Department.

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

Applicants are being tested on a conditional basis pending a review of minimum qualifications. Applications will be reviewed for applicants who pass the Supplemental Questions exam.

Per CSC Rules & Regulations, after review of the minimum qualifications for applicants that pass the Supplemental Questions exam, a passing score, combined with applicable seniority points and veteran points, will be used to create a list of candidates.

Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.


Note: Applicants with foreign diploma, 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 visitwww.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.

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