Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant serves as a key contributor to maintaining the financial accuracy and integrity of the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office. This role requires advanced knowledge of accounting principles, advanced analytical skills, and effective cross-department collaboration to support strategic organizational decisions. Primary responsibilities include performing a variety of reconciliations, auditing and recording financial transactions, and conducting financial analyses across multiple funds.

• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to internal controls and audit standards.
• Reconcile the agency’s self-insurance fund, verify adequate funding levels, coordinate with insurance providers, and maintain required reporting while supporting the Accounting Lead in financial oversight.
• Reconcile the agency’s bank accounts to ensure ongoing financial accuracy and data integrity.
• Analyze special revenue and restricted fund activity to confirm proper classification, usage, and regulatory compliance.
• Prepare and process journal entries, including accruals, adjustments, reallocations, and all year-end entries such as payroll and health-related adjustments.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and recordkeeping to ensure transparency, compliance, and audit readiness. Serve as a primary point of contact for auditors during the annual on-site audit.
• Lead annual audit preparation by reviewing documentation prior to submission and coordinating on-site auditor requests with appropriate subject matter experts.
• Participate in process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and internal control effectiveness.
• Provide coverage and support to team members as needed to ensure continuity of operations.
• Support divisional leadership with the implementation of new systems and processes and provide additional assistance during peak workload periods or staff absences.
• Complete special projects assigned to support divisional and agency wide operational needs.
• All CCSO employees are considered essential emergency workers and are subject to working in any capacity/hours deemed necessary by the Agency during activations, including but not limited to, in-County and out-of-County deployments.

• Expert knowledge of principles and practices of accounting, financial management and budgeting
• Strong ability to organize workloadwhen faced with competing priorities to complete work in a timely manner
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy of work product
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication.
• Proficient problem solving, organizational, and time management skills.
• Provide high level of service to, and effective relationship-building with multiple internal and external constituencies.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of products with the ability to learn new systems and digital platforms.
• Ability to think, act quickly, calmly, and appropriately in emergencies.

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred or combination of higher-level education, professional certifications or relevant training with at least ten years of experience in financial accounting, or a closely related field.
• Advanced understanding of accounting principles, with a preference for experience in fund accounting.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel is required.

• Work within an office environment among peers.
• Prolonged sitting in performance of daily activities.
• Ability to lift to 20 pounds occasionally.
• Grasping, repetitive hand movement, and eye coordination using a computer keyboard.
• Acute hearing, near and far vision required.
• May require driving occasionally.