Accountant, Tax Accountant, Financial Reporting

NATURE OF WORK

The Accountant performs entry-level professional accounting work involving the review of source documents used for accounting, the maintenance of ledgers, registers, or other records of initial entry, the maintenance of control accounts, and the preparation of periodic and special financial reports. Work responsibilities may include: obtaining financial data and information; processing financial documents and related information; evaluating financial data and information;

preparing financial documentation; and providing consultation and expert advice to management, employees or other groups. An accountant performs technical work in the maintenance of fiscal records applying professional accounting principles and methods. General supervision is received from Accounting Supervisor and/or Accounting Manager.

• Obtains financial data and information from all relevant sources in order to perform work tasks, establish a record or documentation for an account, and ensure that financial data is accurate and complete.
• Processes financial data and related information to include compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, and tabulating information or data using accounting, database, and spreadsheet software in order to perform entry-level professional accounting work.
• Evaluates financial data and information against a set of standards and verifies that it is correct using invoices, purchase orders, vouchers, printouts, source documents, worksheets, and reports in order to conduct analysis, make recommendations, and ensure the accuracy of work.
• Prepares financial documentation to include correspondence and reports using accounting software, database software, spreadsheet software, and word processing software in order to provide requested documentation and maintain accurate documentation for files.
• Provides consultation and expert advice to management, employees, or other groups on technical, systems-related or process related topics in order to ensure that individuals have correct, up-to-date financial and accounting information and to ensure that tasks are performed correctly.

• Knowledge of accounting principles and practices including financial statement preparation, debits and credits, revenues and expenses, and liabilities as needed to analyze and interpret complex accounting data.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of governmental accounting to include financial reporting, general funds, special revenue funds, capital projects funds, fiduciary funds, and general fixed assets as needed to analyze and interpret complex accounting data.
• Knowledge of purchasing and accounts payable procedures such as invoicing, procurement, and bidding processes as needed to analyze and interpret complex accounting data.
• Knowledge of payroll accounting including time and attendance and employee reimbursement as needed to analyze and interpret complex accounting data.li>
• Knowledge of the principles, practices and methods of property and equipment inventory control and management (fixed assets).
• Knowledge of auditing principles and practices including audit sampling, work papers, quality control, and reporting as needed to conduct periodic internal audits and prepare for and assist outside auditors during their evaluation of the agency.
• Knowledge of the application of data processing techniques to the maintenance of accounting records as needed to ensure that documentation is recorded and easily accessible.
• Knowledge of computer applications related to financial reporting such as database, spreadsheet, and word processing as needed to develop reports and correspondence and provide information.
• Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar as needed to communicate with individuals so that the individuals will understand the message presented.
• Knowledge of mathematics to include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as needed to calculate percentages, fractions, decimals, averages, totals, and ratios.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply or divide quickly and accurately as needed to make basic calculations, calculate decimals and percentages and compute discount, interest, and ratio and proportion.
• Ability to understand and organize a problem and then to select a mathematical method or formula to solve the problem as needed to prepare and interpret a variety of accounting statements and records and analyze and interpret complex accounting data.
• Ability to apply general rules to specific problems and to come up with logical answers as needed to examine and analyze financial records and prepare and interpret a variety of accounting statements and reports.
• Ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences as needed to follow instructions and gather the information needed to complete assignments.
• Ability to make sense of…