Senior Accountant

$68,000 to $80,000 Annually - Salary Exempt

Performs advanced governmental accounting, payroll-finance, reconciliation, reporting, and analytical work supporting the County's financial operations. The position has primary responsibility for the Finance Department's portion of County payroll processing, including financial review, payroll submission, reconciliation, accounting, tax and payment processing, post-payroll reporting, and resolution of payroll-related financial discrepancies. The position also administers assigned grants, special revenue, capital projects, and other governmental or proprietary funds and prepares financial records, reports, and analyses within established internal controls and under the supervision of the Accounting Manager.

• Maintains accurate and timely financial information and prepares assigned analyses, reconciliations, schedules, and reports for review.
• Coordinates with departments regarding project status, funding, budgets, expenditures, and required documentation and escalates unresolved or material issues.
• Reviews grants, intergovernmental agreements, funding terms, and applicable guidance for accounting and reporting requirements; obtains legal or grantor interpretation when terms are disputed or unclear.
• Tracks grant, special-revenue, capital, and other assigned project revenues and expenditures and documents allowability, coding, budget, match, deadline, and reporting issues.
• Prepares and enters supported journal entries within assigned access and approval workflows; does not approve the employee’s own entries when independent review is required.
• Prepares required financial reports and public-notice support for grants and special funds under management and legal review as appropriate.
• Supports development and monitoring of the Capital Improvement Program, capital budgets, grants, and special-revenue budgets and trains departmental designees on approved procedures.
• Supports vendor onboarding, requisitions, purchase orders, interagency transactions, annual audit, budget preparation, and financial reporting using approved controls and complete documentation.
• Administers the Finance Department's responsibilities within the County payroll cycle following completion of Human Resource Services and departmental timekeeping and employee-data processes.
• Reviews preliminary payroll registers, control totals, earnings, deductions, employer liabilities, funding distributions, accounting codes, and payroll exceptions for financial accuracy and completeness before final payroll submission.
• Performs the Finance review and submission of payroll after required approvals are completed and coordinates correction of financial discrepancies, rejected transactions, balancing issues, or other exceptions identified during payroll processing.
• Reconciles gross payroll, net payroll, taxes, deductions, employer contributions, benefit-related payments, deferred-compensation payments, payroll clearing accounts, bank activity, labor distributions, and general-ledger activity to payroll system reports and supporting documentation.
• Prepares and records payroll-related journal entries, accruals, corrections, reallocations, and other authorized accounting transactions in accordance with established approval and segregation-of-duties controls.
• Prepares, reviews, and submits authorized payroll tax deposits, returns, payment records, and related federal and state payroll reporting within required deadlines.
• Prepares and distributes post-payroll financial reports, reconciliations, labor-distribution reports, liability reports, payment documentation, and other payroll-related financial information required by Finance, Human Resource Services, departments, auditors,…