Accountant

Excellent Benefits

The City provides a comprehensive benefits package that is largely employer paid including Medical/Dental/Vision, FSA/HSA, WA State PERS, Life/AD&D and generous paid Vacation, Holiday and Sick Leave Programs. The City also offers optional 457 and ROTH (up to 2% City match), LTD and Supplemental Life plan participation.

Essential Job Functions

• Prepares portions of the Annual Financial Report, including technical footnote analysis and changes in financial position in conformance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
• Performs a variety of professional accounting duties including cost allocation, journal entry preparation, account analysis, internal auditing, cash management reconciliation, capital asset analysis, project accounting, forecasting and special projects as assigned.
• Performs daily cash receipt reconciliation and posting.
• Serves as the insurance claims liaison between City departments and the City’s risk pool to monitor claims and report changes in property liability values.
• Analyzes, reconciles and prepares a variety of complex financial statements and subsidiary reports related to specific functions; draws conclusions and makes appropriate recommendations to management.
• Provides technical accounting and internal system control guidance to appropriate City personnel.
• Reviews and recommends changes to City accounting policies and systems to ensure conformance with GAAP and State Budgeting, Accounting and Reporting Systems (BARS).
• Audits transactions to ensure compliance with laws, codes and regulations governing regulatory and municipal accounting.
• Serves as Disability Board Secretary.
• Analyzes, prepares and performs assigned accounting tasks related to the budget.
• Prepares, reviews and submits a variety of financial reports to local, state and federal regulatory agencies and government offices. Ensures deadlines are met.
• Works with other departments and outside agencies as needed to coordinate projects, resolve problems, provide information, explain accounting procedures and discuss data anomalies.
• Prepares monthly financial, investment, economic indicator and construction project reports.
• Reviews payroll against timesheets, personnel action notices and benefit policies.

Other job functions:

• Serve as back-up to payroll, accounts payable, and purchasing as needed.
• Assists with reconciliation and reporting of grant revenues.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or related field.
• Two years of increasingly responsible experience in professional accounting. Governmental fund accounting experience preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access).
• A valid Washington State Driver License may be required depending on assignment.

City of Wenatchee Government

The City of Wenatchee is a full-service City employing 190 employees. Departments include Community Development, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services, Police and Public Works. The City operates under a Strong Mayor form of government with seven council members. Active boards and commissions advise the City Council with governance.

The Community

The City of Wenatchee is home to 35,526 people with approximately 124,795 living in the greater Wenatchee urban area. Located in a beautiful valley at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia Rivers and on the east slopes of the Cascade Mountain Range, the city enjoys wonderful abundant sunshine with four distinct seasons. The average rainfall is a mere 10 inches per year making the region a focal point of Washington State for outdoor recreation. Wenatchee is the largest city in rural North Central Washington and thus provides a small-town atmosphere with big city amenities striking a great balance between rural and urban qualities of life. Furthermore, the city is only 30-minutes from the renowned resort towns of Leavenworth and Lake Chelan. For those desiring occasional amenities of major metropolitan areas, Seattle is a short scenic 3-hour drive or 30-minute flight away making Wenatchee very attractive to many people and families relocating from the Puget Sound area.

Find out more about the City at https://www.wenatcheewa.gov. Some of the tourism highlights of the region can be viewed at https://www.visitchelancounty.com/ and http://wenatchee.org/. Our historic downtown is a nationally recognized Main Street with an active downtown association https://wendowntown.org/.

Must See

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How to Apply

Please visit the City of Wenatchee website to view the employment opportunity, job description and complete an online application:
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wenatcheewa.