Supervisory Accountant III; OCFO - Treasury Division

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- Treasury division is accepting applications for a Supervisory Accountant III position.

The incumbent of this position is one of several Supervisory Accountants in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) of the City of Detroit. The Supervisory Accountant III will be assigned to lead and supervise accounting professionals and paraprofessionals, as well as functions within the OCFO’s Office of the Controller, Office of Departmental Financial Services, and Office of the Treasury.

The Supervisory Accountant III has primary responsibility for planning, implementing, supervising and controlling all accounting-related activities of the teams and projects assigned. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring the implementation of the appropriate modules of the ERP Cloud that impact the operation supervised.

The Supervisory Accountant III supervises a staff engaged in a wide range of financial reporting, payroll, risk management, and public infrastructure functions including enforcing Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), maintaining the General Ledger, issuing financial reports, responding to inquiries regarding transactions, coordinating City compliance activities, producing the City’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR), performing risk management activities, supervising payroll transactions and employee timekeeping, directing grant-related accounting functions, and providing financial support services to other City Department(s).

The staff supervised includes a full range of clerical and administrative support as well as professional and technical staff.

• Using ERP Cloud applications supervises/manages the following activities:
  • Creation of Financial Reports
• Editing of reporting templates
  • Use of Business Intelligence Publisher templates and data models
• Creation of Transactions Business Intelligence dashboard and reports
• Analysis of data through Smart View and Account Monitor
• Oversee:
  • Creation of Financial Reports
  • Configuration of accounting transactions
  • General ledger close, allocations and financial reporting
• Using ERP Cloud technology and through appropriate application modules:
  • Supervises highly complex accounting functions and transactions consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), standardized bookkeeping processes, accounting terminology, accounting techniques, and other financial rules and regulations
  • Supervises the preparation, analysis, and presentation of key financial information, statements, and operational results for internal and external needs including budgetary purposes;
    Ensures information is timely, accurate, reliable, and professional
  • Ensures various accounting functions adhere to sound fiscal and regulatory policies and compliance in order to safeguard public assets and ensure adequate control of revenues and resources
  • Conceives new approaches to existing programs;
    Operates new and old systems concurrently
  • Prepares a number of regular and recurring special purpose reports
  • Reviews fiscal accounting work including budget preparation, purchasing activities, payroll, and general ledger analyses, grants, bonds, revenue, cost allocation, capital assets, expenditures, and other accounting activities
  • Provides experience in using the specific procedures of automated systems to find, review, or change accounting data in transaction files, ledgers, accounts, summary reports, and financial statements
  • Supervises accounting codes and structures to ensure accurate recording, reporting, and control in financial systems
• Presents and explain reports orally and in writing to management, accounting staff, and other stakeholders
• Coordinates the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), Single Audit Report of Federal Grant Programs, and other standardized and specialized reports
• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned

• For all Supervisory Accounting III, must have completed Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, with major course of work in business or public administration, finance, engineering, purchasing or a closely related field.

• At least four (4) years of experience in Accounting or in a related field.
• Supervisory Accountant III must have two (2) years of verifiable experience supervising subordinate staff in addition to at least one (1) year of…