Senior Accountant

Salary : $6,982.00 - $8,489.00 Monthly

Location : 140 W 11th Ave, Delano

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Number:

Department: Finance Department

Opening Date: 10/08/2026

Closing Date: 10/29/2026 5:30 PM Pacific

To be considered for this position, please attach the following to your application:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in accounting, finance, business administration, public administration, or a related field.

Performs complex and specialized professional level accounting and auditing work in a number of areas relating to municipal accounting procedures and records. Provides training to department staff and lead direction to assigned Accounting and clerical staff. This classification provides the professional level support to the City's Accounting section. It is the senior operational professional accounting specialist. The position exercises a high degree of independent judgment on diverse and specialized accounting projects and has significant accountability for ongoing decision making associated with his/her work.

This class is distinguished from the Assistant Finance Director by the lack of department/division-wide supervisory responsibilities and department/division work planning. The classification is further distinguished by the requirement to bring to the Assistant Finance Director prospective changes in methods and innovations in procedures, as well as prospective policy changes; that will improve the delivery of accounting services to the City.

Disclaimer
- This list is meant to be representative, not exhaustive. Some incumbents may not perform all the duties listed. In other cases related duties may also be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Reviews accounting documents to ensure accuracy of information and calculations and makes correcting entries.
• Inputs all general ledger vouchers.
• Analyzes various general ledger accounts for accuracy, creates new account numbers or makes changes in account descriptions on City chart of accounts.
• Examines supporting documentation to establish proper authorization and conformance with agreements, contracts, and state and federal regulations.
• Keeps subsidiary ledgers for various accounts.
• Prepares and maintains control and subsidiary accounting records involving a variety of transactions and accounts.
• Prepares trial balances, financial reports, journal entries and periodic reconciliation of general ledger, journal, subsidiary accounts and bank statements.
• Compiles and prepares financial statements, general and subsidiary ledgers, supporting schedules and financial reports for regulatory agencies.

• Conducts bank reconciliation for General Pooled Cash Accounts, RDA, REDIP, RTC Facility, and various trust funds as received.
• Records interest and activity.
• Reconciles and records missed transactions.

• Prepares a variety of journal vouchers on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Researches, certifies, and calculates special assessment taxation.
• Participates in the selection of, supervises, evaluates, recommends merit increase, and disciplines assigned employees.
• Assists in budget preparation by producing budgetary worksheets to complete projections of revenue and expenditures, spreadsheets of department employees, salaries, and benefits, and a variety of other spreadsheets and graphs.

• Maintains expenditure and budgetary control accounts.
• Produces monthly reports for departments and summaries for the City Council.

• Prepares cash transfer and loans between funds.

• Assists in the control of the City's investment account.
• Provides grant accounting on funds received from other agencies and deposited in the City's general fund and trust funds. Reviews and corrects user department quarterly statements.
• Prepares annual financial report for The State Controller's Office.

• Maintains complete accounting record keeping on State, County, and other funding sources.
• Installs new accounting systems and procedures and instruct other in their use.
• Performs cost studies and analyzes cost factors.

• Reviews current accounting practices and procedures and recommends modification and revisions.
• Provides work direction to accounting office staff and trains staff in work procedures.

• May make audit schedules, and assists City auditor at year-end.
• Answers and researches questions of the auditor concerning procedures and general ledger reports.

• Reconciles accounts at year…