Senior Accountant | Denver City Council

Senior Accountant

Denver City Council's Central Office Division is seeking a full-time Senior Accountant to support financial operations, ensure fiscal accountability, and deliver high-quality service to internal and external stakeholders.

Key responsibilities of a Senior Accountant include:

• Processing customer invoices accurately and promptly
• Resolving internal and external billing and account inquiries
• Reviewing and analyzing contract documents and processing contract invoices, ensuring all supporting documentation is accurate
• Assisting with audit requests, applying fiscal laws, rules, and procedures correctly
• Conducting special projects involving research, data analysis, financial calculations, and report creation
• Ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and collaborating with the Controller's Office to resolve discrepancies
• Reviewing and approving invoices, ensuring contract rates and terms are correct
• Supporting purchasing activities, including requisitions, reconciliations, and policy adherence
• Processing purchase change orders, budget amendments, and project funding in Workday
• Running and analyzing reports, preparing monthly financial reports
• Developing and implementing departmental accounting policies and procedures
• Cross-training colleagues and supporting complex purchasing activities
• Ensuring assets are properly received and recorded and analyzing purchasing transactions
• Performing other related duties as assigned

Our ideal Senior Accountant candidate will have some of the following skills and experience:

• Efficiently demonstrates excellent time and workload management skills
• Works well under pressure and adapts quickly when shifting between multiple tasks
• Problem solver who can anticipate various outcomes and plan accordingly to mitigate risk
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team to support internal and external customers
• Dependable and able to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to present clean, polished, and professional work products, with creativity in presentation design
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills when working with council members, senior leadership, and other administrative staff
• Ability to prioritize multiple requests and inquiries with timeliness and a strong customer service focus
• Software application experience (e.g., Workday, MS Office Suite)
• Natural curiosity and ability to identify risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for innovation and process improvement
• Self-starter who can carry out assignments with substantial independence
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, politically sensitive office environment and navigating competing priorities with professionalism

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
• Experience:
  
  Three (3) years of professional level accounting experience reconciling accounting discrepancies, analyzing expenditures, and preparing financial reports.
• Education/Experience Equivalency:
  No substitution of experience for education is permitted. Additional appropriate education may be substituted for experience requirements.
• License/
  
  Certifications:
  
  None