Accountant, Financial Reporting, Accounting Manager

No Nevada state income tax.

The Department of Transportation is currently recruiting for an Accountant 1 in Carson City. This recruitment will be used to fill a current vacancy in the Accounting division. Under limited supervision, the incumbent will perform the full range of duties described in the series concept and will internally generate data and external source material to review and correct payroll expense transactions (PREXP) in CoreNV for each pay period.

The incumbent will provide project accounting backups upon demand for Federal Billing discrepancies, train and educate staff on proper coding for timecards, and correct and submit journal vouchers for processing. They will audit and process departmental JVDs, provide overall support to divisions regarding accounting problems and management information systems, give advice, consultation, direction, and training to agency staff to minimize errors and reduce the need for JVDs.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in accounting.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance or a related field and one year of experience preparing GAAP-based financial statements, periodic federal, state, or private grant fiscal reports and/or fiscal ad hoc reports used by internal and external entities.
• Four years of experience in the accounting field, two years of which were at the Accountant Technician II level in Nevada State service performing the duties described above.

The Accountant series is distinguished from the Accountant Technician series in that Accountants are called upon to make decisions based on a formal body of knowledge obtained through extensive post‑secondary accounting education. They must understand and regularly use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and have knowledge of governmental financial reporting standards. They must be able to compile and analyze information needed to develop complex and specialized financial statements typically found in year‑end audit statements of financial position, which are distributed to the public.

Establish and maintain accounting systems and procedures that provide necessary documentation and audit trails for fiscal transactions, classification of expenditures, and current fund balances.

Prepare and analyze working trial balances, identify and correct errors, and prepare journal entries to ensure reliable and accurate balance sheets and statements of revenues, expenditures/expenses, and changes in fund equity/balances.

Prepare balance sheets, income statements, and changes in fund balance statements from working trial balances to provide reliable and accurate financial information.

Use internally generated data and external source material to prepare notes to financial statements with supporting work papers, tying all amounts to the basic financial statements.

Establish internal accounting procedures for preparing financial statements and managing workflow to ensure compliance with governmental accounting statutes, regulations, policies, and principles.

Provide overall support to agencies and divisions regarding accounting problems and management information systems; give advice, consultation, direction, and training to agency staff; manage agency accounting functions by developing work plans, assigning work, establishing work performance standards, and evaluating work performance.

Analyze fiscal data to identify and correct errors; reconcile or supervise the reconciliation of trust accounts, general ledger accounts, bank statements, sub‑ledger accounts, and controller’s reports.

Schedule and coordinate audits with independent auditors; prepare supporting work papers and provide other assistance to auditors in periodic audits; review audit reports and write summaries of findings and recommendations; discuss audit findings with agency management and implement audit recommendations.

Determine if leases are capital or operating and prepare amortization schedules.

Review agency fixed asset listings and ensure that current‑year additions and disposals have been properly reported; reconcile fixed asset purchases to the accounting…