Accountant II

Salary $38.64 - $57.94/hour; $6,697.60 - $10,042.93/month; $80,371.20 - $/year

This is complex professional accounting work in the City’s centralized accounting division.

This iscomplexprofessionalaccounting work in the City’s centralized accounting division.

Employees perform various assignments of more than average difficulty in financial records keeping and processing. Tasks include review of transactions for accuracy, completeness, and conformance with established procedural criteria,and completion and processing of documents. This class is distinguished from the lower level by the widely varying nature of assignments, scope of activities, discretion exercised, experience and expertise in completing assignments and/or the complexity of problem solving necessary to process and balance transactions.

A higher level employee is usually available toprovide assistance in particularly demanding technical assignments and to complete the most difficult financial record-keeping and accounting tasks.

Although established criteria and procedures generally exist, employees must exercise significant initiative and independent judgment in evaluating transactions, determining appropriate courses of action, and ensuring that attendant records are maintained and processed accurately and on a timely basis. Employees might also perform general clerical tasks. Work is performed under general supervision and reviewed through observation, conferences, examination of completed documents,and internal and independent audits.

Codes,checks, and processes purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, andother forms; checks ledger for funds available; recommends movement of funds tocover shortages based upon review of usage; prepares budget amendments and general ledger file maintenance to make needed adjustments; utilizes computer to submit requisitions and retrieve account balances and inventory levels;contacts vendors and others to determine order, receipt, and payment status forgoods and services;

reviews payment provisions of capital improvement contracts and prepares documents to initiate payments in accordance with contract requirements and established procedures; compiles and presents financial dataand prepares expenditure projections for budget preparation; maintains records for special accounts; computes and renders bills; receives and deposits money;records receipts and disbursements and balances accounts with central accounting records. Reviews time cards for proper coding of program and activity areas and contacts appropriate personnel to ensure that data is balanced;

reviews payroll attendance records and personnel actions and balances payrolls; verifies accuracy of various pay calculations; maintains departmental job cost records; verifies job cost/payroll reconciliations completed by departments; contacts departmental personnel to explain errors found in balancing payrolls and verifying job cost reconciliations and to ensure that errors are corrected. Reviews budget amendments submitted for completeness, proper documentation and propriety; batches and balances budget amendments for submission to data processing;

reviews data submission records and contacts budget personnel to ensure correction of computer rejections. Coordinates and participates in physical counts of fixed assets and departmental inventories;completes routine journal entries, file maintenance and other forms to adjust records based upon count findings and departmental requests for addition,transfer, and deletion of assets and stock. Reconciles and balances such transactions as accounts receivable and interdepartmental billings to general ledger activity reports;

prepares journal entries, file maintenance and…