Accountant, Financial Reporting, Senior Accountant

Position: ACCOUNTANT 3
The Nevada Controller's Office is hiring for an Accountant 3 in Carson City, NV. Accountants in this series perform the highest level of financial reporting. Incumbents work in the State Controller's Office and produce the State's Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR), which is audited by an independent public accounting firm, is essential for obtaining bond ratings, and is required for the Single Audit Report;

implement Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) pronouncements; assist agencies with accounting issues and document processing; approve agency documents and work programs; provide support to agencies on the accounting system; review underlying accounting records for compliance with GAAP/GASB/federal regulations and reporting requirements, Accounting Policies and Procedures, and NRS. Incumbents will need to possess a degree of knowledge and proficiency sufficient to perform work independently with little or no additional training.

The successful candidate will be self-motivated, able to work within established deadlines, maintain a good working relationship within a team environment, prepare thorough and accurate financial reporting, able to apply critical thinking skills by researching, analyzing, and interpreting state and federal regulations, demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, and maintain a high standard of professional integrity and confidentiality. The incumbent needs to be make recommendations regarding internal controls and ensures that fiscal policies and procedures are followed.

The incumbent may perform other related duties as required to meet ongoing needs.

Accountants are responsible for preparing financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the standards of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). General purpose financial statements may be audited and include balance sheets; statements of revenue, expenditures/expenses, and changes in fund equity/balances; and statements of cash flow. Financial statements are typically combined statements which present information by fund type, account group, and discretely presented component units.

Fund types include general fund, special revenue funds, debt service funds, capital project funds, enterprise funds, internal service funds, and trust and agency funds. Accountants are also responsible for preparing various other financial reports which include reports for federal, private grant, or national repository purposes, and ad hoc reports for use by outside entities such as internal/external auditors, legislative bodies, and the public.

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in accounting, finance, or closely related field and two years of experience performing professional accounting work; OR Bachelor's degree in business administration and three years of experience performing professional accounting work; OR one year of experience as an Accountant II in Nevada State service.

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

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

Prepare and analyze working trial balances, identify, and correct errors, and prepare journal entries in order to prepare 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 in 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; provide 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…