Accountant, Financial Reporting, Accounting Manager

Overview

Job Description: Under general supervision, performs professional accounting work, including auditing, analyzing, and verifying fiscal records and reports, preparing financial and statistical reports, providing information to District staff regarding accounting practices and procedures, and reconciling general ledger accounts; assists in preparing the District's annual budgets; prepares year-end audit reports and schedules; and performs related work as required.

Definition

Under general supervision, performs professional accounting work, including auditing, analyzing, and verifying fiscal records and reports, preparing financial and statistical reports, providing information to District staff regarding accounting practices and procedures, and reconciling general ledger accounts; assists in preparing the District's annual budgets; prepares year-end audit reports and schedules; and performs related work as required.

Receives general supervision from assigned supervisory or management personnel. May exercise technical and functional direction over and provide training to lower-level staff.

This is a journey-level professional accounting class. Incumbents perform the full range of routine to complex departmental accounting and record-keeping programs under only minimal supervision. Responsibilities require the use of tact, discretion, and independent judgment. Successful performance of the work requires thorough knowledge of governmental accounting practices and procedures, fund accounting, and fiscal management. This class is distinguished from the Accounting Supervisor in that the latter is responsible for supervising the maintenance of accounting and financial records for the District as well as overseeing the work of paraprofessional accounting staff.

Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.

• Provides responsible professional and technical assistance in the administration and implementation of the District's accounting, auditing, and financial programs.
• Prepares a wide variety of financial and statistical reports, financial statements, work papers, reconciliations, and cost analyses, including various reports to Federal, State, and local agencies, budgetary reports, and other accounting documents and financial analyses.
• Monitors expenditures, revenues, and budget allocations to determine the District's financial status and prepares custom reports, graphs, and schedules as needed; provides budget information to various funding agencies as required.
• Prepares journal entries and reconciles general ledger and subsidiary accounts related to postings from a wide variety of accounting functions; develops reallocations of budgeted amounts for various assigned programs; prepares monthly financial statements, including distributing monthly revenue and expenditure reports to departments; prepares numerous monthly financial reports.
• Interprets, explains, and applies general accounting/auditing principles and procedures, laws, and regulations affecting the District's financial operations; responds to inquiries and requests for other staff regarding accounting procedures and related to District accounts and records.
• Analyzes and reconciles expenditure and revenue accounts, including bond accounts; reviews and processes appropriation transfer requests between accounts; reconciles bond statements and bank statements to the general ledger.
• Participates in and assumes responsibility for various departmental programs including financial statements, general ledger, monthly statements, and special projects accounting; conducts and prepares special studies and reports; coordinates with staff in the completion of financial reports.
• Prepares and enters various data and reports such as adjustments, expenditure transfers, budget augmentations, revisions, transfers, and the analysis and reconciliation of transactions within various accounting and financial computer software applications.
• Receives proposed budgets from operating departments and reviews for accuracy and completeness, making corrections when necessary.
• Develops reallocations of budget amounts where appropriate.
• Compiles reports of various budget revenue and expense category accounts on request.
• Works with campus and district offices to ensure timely and accurate budget reports.
• Reviews contracts relating to special funded programs to ensure that program guidelines are followed.
• Assists in coordinating and conducting periodic external and internal audits.
• Attends meetings, conferences, workshops, and training sessions, and reviews publications to remain current on principles, practices, and new developments in the field of accounting.
• Provides professional and technical assistance to management staff.
• Performs other…