Accountant III; Hybrid

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Job Number:864
Salary:$76,877.06-$
Department/Office: Finance
Division: Accounting
Location: 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, CO, 80120
Job Type
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Salary Full-Time
Posting Date: 10/28/2026
Closing Date: 11/29/2026

The Arapahoe County government serves its communities in ways both obvious and obscure. As the beating heart of local and regional government, we’re here for our neighbors on their best days—and their worst. We share our residents’ goals of preserving our quality of life and strive to be the place we’re proud to call home.

This position performs a variety of professional accounting and complex technical duties associated with the classifying, recording and reporting of County financial activities. Duties assigned cover the full field of the accounting spectrum including governmental accounting, grant accounting, financial reporting and analysis, internal auditing, and the review, analysis, design and monitoring of internal controls and financial business processes.

Serves as a technical accounting and financial reporting resources to staff, management, and County Departments and Offices

• Analizes, reviews and interprets funds to ensure proper governmental accounting, compliance with Federal, State, and Local statutes, bond covenants, administrative codes and orders, and any other rules and regulations.
• Performs financial analysis, preparation of financial reports, recognizing and communicating areas needing attention.
• Works with personnel in assigned departments to make sure that the funds are accounted for properly and that the departments fully understand what is occurring financially within their area.
• Analyzes intergovernmental agreements, bond documents and various other contracts in order to properly account for the contractual arrangement and ensure compliance with applicable governmental regulations.
• Applies limited knowledge of County and Grant financial policies and procedures to proper account for and report the financial activity of numerous grants received by the County.
• Analyzes proposed County grants from all departments and works with the Grants Accountant II to give a Finance Department opinion as to whether or not the County can ensure financial compliance with all the applicable regulations.
• Reviews fiscal source documents for completeness, mathematical accuracy, proper authorization, proper fund/account combinations, and the proper application of any appropriate fees, refunds, collections, taxes, or discounts.
• Communicates effectively with elected officials, department heads, and other personnel in and outside of the county for the purpose of offering solutions to various system and accounting inquiries.
• Provides accounting support to all departments and offices and serves as an accounting liaison to specific assigned deparatments and offices.
• Reviews peer team members’ work and shares knowledge with team members to improve the division’s ability answer questions.
• Member of the team responsible for the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). Has some assigned areas of responsibility within the preparation of the CAFR.

Serves as a Business Process Improvement (BPI) resource

• Assists with the development of policies, procedures and guidelines ensuring that proper internal controls are included.
• Recommends new procedures in response to changes in policy.
• Performs financial process analyses with an emphasis on ensuring that the proper internal controls are in place.
• Assists in the streamlining of processes and automating where necessary.

Provides Ongoing Department and Staff Development

• Researches and provides recommendations concerning accounting issues by doing in depth research in…