Accountant, Financial Reporting, Accounting Manager

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

providing Project accounting backups for Federal Billing discrepancies; training staff on proper timecard coding, including project‑specific codes; checking State CoreNV for rejections, correcting and submitting journal vouchers, and processing departmental JVDs; and providing overall support to divisions regarding accounting problems and management information systems.

• Prepare financial statements in accordance with GAAP and GASB, including balance sheets, statements of revenue and expenses, and change‑in‑fund‑equity statements.
• Prepare various other financial reports for federal, private grant and national repository purposes, and ad hoc reports for external entities such as auditors and legislative bodies.
• Internally generate data and external source material to review and correct payroll‑expense transactions (PREXP) in CoreNV for each pay period.
• Provide Project‑accounting backups for Federal Billing discrepancies.
• Train and educate staff on proper coding for timecards, including project‑specific codes.
• Check State CoreNV for rejections with journal vouchers, correct and submit for processing, audit and process departmental JVDs.
• Provide overall support to divisions regarding accounting problems and management information systems; advise, consult, direct, and train agency staff to minimize errors and reduce the need for JVDs.
• 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 produce reliable, accurate balance sheets and statements of revenue, expenditures and changes in fund equity.
• Prepare income statements and change‑in‑fund‑balance statements from working trial balances.
• Use internally generated data and external sources 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.
• Analyze fiscal data to identify and correct errors; reconcile or supervise 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 assist 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 whether leases are capital or operating and prepare amortization schedules.
• Review agency fixed‑asset listings and ensure current‑year additions and disposals are properly reported; reconcile fixed‑asset purchases to the accounting system and run depreciation schedules.
• May provide full supervision or work direction for professional, technical, or clerical staff.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in accounting; OR a 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; OR 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…