Senior Financial Accountant

Senior Financial Accountant

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Two (2) years of directly related experience
• Knows the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Demonstrates strong technical accounting skills

Responsibilities

• Prepares, analyzes and submits monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for management review using the City’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, tenant and landlord ledger systems, bookkeeping system and Microsoft Excel.
• Ensures the integrity of accounting information through review and reconciliation of accounting and financial transactions.
• Verifies, consolidates, and enters corrected transactions within the system.
• Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expense entries by compiling and analyzing account information using City’s systems and software.
• Enters grant revenues and expenses into current systems, including Quick Books system.
• Performs variance analysis and analyzes city-wide trends to ensure the accuracy of financial data, as well as budget-to-actual variances.
• Acts as liaison with internal and external stakeholders on city-wide accounting issues as well as communication with customer departments.
• Assists in the preparation and compilation of supporting audit documents for fiscal year-end financial audit using City’s ERP system or other software.
• Works with auditors to complete external audits for all payroll, expense, revenue, balance sheet reports by analyzing and preparing supporting audit documents.
• Responds to auditor questions via email, during meetings or by providing supporting documents.
• Assists supervisor with leading tasks as needed.
• Provides system support to lower-level staff.
• Provides guidance on technical accounting issues and ensuring accuracy in their work.
• Cross-trains to provide backup support for staff.
• Performs all other duties and tasks as assigned, including special projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• Two (2) years experience in Accounting, Finance or related field
• Five (5) years or more experience in bookkeeping or Accounting
• Experience creating and managing worksheets, preferred knowledge with Microsoft Office Product: Excel
• Experience in grant financial management
• Experience working with ERP systems, including Workday, Advantage, etc.