Accounting Supervisor

The City of Franklin is a progressive community, as well as a great place to live and work. There are tremendous opportunities to establish a career with the City's municipal government. Job responsibilities at the City of Franklin are many and varied, as well as challenging and rewarding. Working for the City of Franklin instills a sense of civic pride and gratification for serving the needs of the public.

The City of Franklin is a progressive community, as well as a great place to live and work. There are tremendous opportunities to establish a career with the City's municipal government. Job responsibilities at the City of Franklin are many and varied, as well as challenging and rewarding. Working for the City of Franklin instills a sense of civic pride and gratification for serving the needs of the public.

Salary Range: $78,152 - $91,944/Annually

Under limited supervision, this role provides comprehensive accounting and service support for the Billing and Licensing Department and oversees and manages financial functions within the department. Responsibilities include assessment loan maintenance, performing reconciliations, creating, maintaining, and analyzing reports, providing customer service, and managing accounts receivable. Provides strategic guidance and support regarding financial processes. Executes supervisory duties.

A. Manages Financial, Licensing/Permitting, and Tax Functions for the Department

• Manages processing of new beer permit applications and oversees agenda preparation for monthly beer board meeting
• Oversees business licensure and renewals for the City of Franklin and assures that compliance standards are met.
• Oversees monitoring of major delinquencies and issuance of demand notifications; oversees issuance of warrants and/or turnover of accounts to collection agency as necessary.
• Oversees the processing of miscellaneous receipts for other departments as needed for Finance.
• Receives invoices from various vendors and processes and codes same for payment.
• Manages processing of monthly hotel/motel tax returns.

B. Loan services

• Creates, maintains, and updates accurate electronic and paper loan records.
• Calculates new special assessment districts and recalculates existing districts using updated assessed values.
• Monitors payment progress, identifies trends and variances and implements corrective actions while recommending potential improvements to Director as appropriate.
• Calculates and distributes delinquent report and calculates and applies penalties manually.
• Creates and maintains amortization schedules.

C. Reporting and Reconciling

• Completes daily reconciliation of all transactions that credit the City of Franklin accounts receivable bank account and submits completed spreadsheet to Finance by monthly deadline.
• Reconciles Building and Neighborhood Service’s daily transactions.
• Analyzes and reconciles data from City’s project management system with bank deposits and system entries completed by multiple departments.
• Prepares and organizes the monthly sales tax report and processes payment with the State by the monthly deadline.
• Maintains financial controls and assures operational consistency by understanding, communicating, and complying with policies and procedures related to customer agreements.
• Obtains the monthly Local Option Sales tax for the City of Franklin and updates the report to be distributed to the Billing and Licensing Director, Assistant City Administrator, and Finance Department.
• Receives property tax data from the County and updates and distributes the report to the Billing and Licensing Director, Assistant City Administrator, and Finance Department.
• Creates additional comparison reports for review and analysis by the Billing and Licensing…