Accounting Administrator

Manage prescribed City financial asset investment and banking, debt obligation payment, cash flow management, and related programs as delegated, and serve as principal technical advisor to the Chief Financial Officer and Comptroller on strategies for coordinating the magnitude and timing of external and internal transactions.

Effectively formulate and develop policies and methods for collection, payment, transfer, deposit, reconciliation, custody, security, recording, and reporting of revenue, invested, and on-hand general, bond, and grant funds in accordance with generally accepted governmental financial and accounting standards and practices. Involves: Confer with other senior management team members to devise plans for meeting Citywide short and long-term monetary requirements. Monitor, interpret, and report economic conditions and investment results, investigate complex financing problems, and analyze alternatives and make recommendations for optimizing yields of financial resources and avoidance of penalties in compliance with Federal, State, and City public funds investment and tax laws, debt covenants, liquidity requirements, and granting agency regulations. Research, write, and issue division directives regarding new and changed transaction control procedures to safeguard cash and negotiable instruments during processing, transportation, and storage, and allied manual and electronic documentation rules in collaboration with accounting staff.

Organize, implement, and coordinate ongoing overall financial investment, debt repayment, bank reconciliation, cash forecast, and project funding activities. Involves: Act as primary liaison to authorized banks, brokerage firms, insurance companies, investment consultants, granting and regulatory agencies regarding cash and revenue-generating securities mix in City's portfolio, debt issuance, deposits, withdrawals, account status, and legally required reporting. Set goals, establish performance measures, direct work processes, balance workloads, expedite work flow, and assess operating results to ensure division functions are within budget using available resources. Study and standardize investment bidding and tracking, monthly bank reconciliation, prepare and post wire transfers, trustee statement verifications, and debt repayment timing techniques to continuously improve accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency, and facilitate internal control. Monitor and enforce adherence to related information sent or received and processed to City Comptroller rules and regulations, and other governmental laws and codes. Furnish information for the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). Prepare and present periodic Treasury reports to City management and outside organizations. Oversee or personally perform required periodic and ad hoc mathematical, narrative, and graphical collection, compilation, breakdown, summarization, comparison, and forecasting of accounting and statistical data to depict, estimate, and explain activities, status, and trends of existing and proposed City investments and loans, including costs, yields, stability, risks, and economic influences. Prepare requests for and evaluate investment bids. Direct other allied functions of the Office of the Comptroller, as delegated.

Supervise assigned personnel. Involves: Schedule, assign, instruct, guide, and check work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and development. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Interview applicants and recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes.