Staff Accountant; Repost

Position: STAFF ACCOUNTANT (REPOST)
The City of Fairburn is seeking a detail-oriented and professional Staff Accountant with experience with municipal/state government experience to support our financial operations. This role involves maintaining accurate fiscal records, ensuring compliance with governmental accounting standards, and assisting in the preparation of the City's annual budget and audits.

This position ensures financial transactions, records, statements, and reports comply with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), ensures accounting records on assigned properties are properly documented, and oversees the remittance and reconciliation of all legislated property taxes and/or performs technical and analytical duties in the budgetary process, providing detailed and complex analysis of City government and other operating and capital budgets. Reports to the Finance Director.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Maintains the general ledger, codes invoices, sets up new accounts, and reconciles accounts.
• Reconciles bank accounts, verifies deposits, and addresses inquiries from banks.
• Reconciles cash disbursement accounts, payroll, customer accounts, and other financial accounts; manages accounts receivable collections.
• Verifies and/or completes payment of invoices associated with accounts payable and ensures payments are charged to the appropriate accounts.
• Performs account reconciliations, monitor and analyze department financial activities and operations for accuracy, and provide recommendations for improvement or resolution.
• Develops procedures to maintain the integrity of the general ledger and subsidiary accounting systems.
• Maintains the Property Tax Billing and Collection System in accordance with City policies and procedures and accurately accounts for all property tax revenue.
• Prepares and distributes property tax bills to all property owners in the City who are eligible to pay property taxes.
• Identifies problems and errors in the Property Tax System and assists in promptly rectifying them.
• Maintains an accurate, up-to-date inventory of property in the City and property owners eligible to pay taxes; works with the County in maintaining the property tax inventory.
• Monitors all past-due accounts and takes prompt collection action in accordance with City policy.
• Works with property owners to quickly, courteously, and accurately resolve property tax problems.
• Maintains a complete, accurate and up-to-date set of property tax records and prepares timely reports on property tax matters.
• Reviews purchase orders and encumbrances; validates justifications, authorizations, budget availability and accuracy of coding.
• Makes budget fund transfers between line items to meet encumbrances and expenses within approved guidelines and limits.
• Participates in and monitors the annual capital budget.
• Prepares, reviews, and analyzes Capital Improvement Project (CIP) budgets.
• Reviews grant revenues and expenditures on a periodic basis for reasonableness and compliance with grant regulations.
• Gathers, analyzes, prepares, and summarizes recommendations for financial plans, trended future requirements and annual operating forecasts and capital budgets.
• Drafts correspondence such as financial notices, form letters, payments, accounting documents and ensures proper and accurate backup information accompanies related files and records; responds to phone calls; assists citizens, vendors or businesses with questions or complaints, and explains policies and procedures, resolves discrepancies.
• Prepares and maintains complex financial and statistical reports related to budgetary obligations and expenditures and projections.
• Prepares, provides, and responds to requests and inquiries regarding financial, expenditure, revenue/fund status, appropriation transfers, supplemental appropriations, and variance reports to management to enable financial and budgetary monitoring and control.
• Monitors debt to include maintaining files, assuring timely payments are made, assisting with new debt arrangements, assuring compliance with continuing disclosure requirements, and providing oversight for sinking funds.
• Serve as a financial resource to other City departments.
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