Accounting Manager - Experienced - On-site

The City of Milwaukee is proud to employ a diverse workforce dedicated to delivering exceptional service to its residents. If you have a passion for being a part of an inclusive team of public servants, please consider the following opportunity.

The Accounting Manager leads the operation of the General Accounting Division and oversees the City of Milwaukee’s accounting system, debt management, accounts payable process management, and financial reporting preparation.

The current salary range (Pay Range 1JX) is $104,997-$119,521 annually, and the current resident incentive salary range for City of Milwaukee residents is $108,147-$123,106 annually. Appointment will be made in accordance with the provisions of the salary ordinance.

The City of Milwaukee provides a comprehensive benefit program which includes the following:

• Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) Defined Benefit Pension Plan
• Manage the timeliness and accuracy of the City’s financial transactions and maintain a uniform accounting system.
• Review, advise, and instruct staff on the recording and reporting of accounting transactions, city financial policies, and procedures.
• Prepare specialized reports on account transactions.
• Analyze and reconcile general ledger balances.
• Review, monitor, record, reconcile, and maintain budgetary controls. Work with staff to resolve accounting issues, ensuring a balanced budget by fund and that controls within the accounting system are functioning effectively; resolve overdraft conditions.
• Monitor the City’s accounting transactions within the People Soft accounting system of capital assets, accounts receivable, billing, accounts payable, inventory, and purchasing;
  Monitor the posting of transactions to the general ledger and the interfaces that post to the general ledger, including the biweekly payroll expenditures.
• Analyze financial transaction-related resolutions, ordinances, and contracts to ensure accurate recording of transactions in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles and City policies.
• Assist in the testing of the Financial Management Information System to ensure accuracy in the recording and reporting of financial transactions.
• Review Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) statements and analyze their effect on the recording of City financial transactions, preparing communications, procedures, and process changes for departments as needed.

• Create and maintain databases associated with the City’s debt issues and purposes.
• Establish and modify accounts, funding sources, funding allocations, appropriations, projects, and segments associated with the funding by authorized borrowing and the subsequent issuance of debt instruments.
• Reconcile project funding sources and appropriations.
• Prepare and distribute Tax Incremental Districts (TID) status reports on the debt issued and related appropriations, expenditures, and remaining balances for each TID district.
• Instruct staff on the allocation of bond proceeds to specific projects.
• Analyze new types of debt issues and determine appropriate accounting treatments.

• Plan, organize, assign, and coordinate staff on the preparation of fund statements and notes, reviewing statements for completeness and accuracy.
• Work with and provide information to the independent auditors, such as account analysis, reconciliations, and transaction documentation; attend weekly status meetings to resolve issues.
• Prepare the letter of transmittal for the Comptroller’s signature and the Management’s Discussion and Analysis section of the Annual Report for the Deputy Comptroller’s review.
• Supervise the final printing and publication of the report.

• Advise and instruct City staff on voucher preparation, processing procedures, account distributions, corrections processes, and resolving accounting and timing issues.
• Review and edit accounts payable-related training materials, procedures, and processes.
• Review and edit accounts payable forms such as travel advances and expense statements.
• Assist other City departments in drafting resolutions, ordinances, and contracts related…