Senior Accountant

Job Posting

The City of Wichita is NOT an E-Verify Employer.

This is professional supervisory work directing, analyzing, and interpreting central accounting and/or auditing activities. Work can include the planning and supervision of one or more components of the City's accounting and account-keeping functions, financial reporting, and auditing. Work is directed and reviewed through the establishment of goals and subsequent evaluation of progress toward goal attainment.

Workdays and Hours - Monday
- Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm OR Monday through Thursday 7:30am to 6:30pm

Anticipated starting salary: $61,184 - 84,984 (based on experience and qualifications). Bargaining Unit: Employee Council

• Ensures compliance with accounting principles and procedures as set forth by the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Ensures the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting.
• Prepares more complex annual audit work papers for review by senior Controller's Office staff.
• Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of assigned components of the accounting system and recommends and implements modifications as required.
• Manages electronic financial information system application development, modification, and validation processes.
• Prepares complex financial statements and presents analytical analysis to senior Controller's Office staff.
• Monitors, reviews and propose corrections for assigned financial funds.
• Provides accounting, reconciliation, reporting and bookkeeping assistance to department staff for assigned funds.
• Develops forms and procedures and supervises employees engaged in processing and maintaining a variety of records.
• Setup, monitoring and close out of grants and projects in the financial system of the City.
• Assist staff in other departments to ensure the City's main financial system is properly reconciled with department third-party systems.
• Periodically presents ideas to senior Controller's Office staff for areas of improvement within assigned duties and carries out improvements upon approval.
• Interprets financial data for administrative review.
• Completion of work assignments may require the operation of a vehicle.
• The examples of work performed are not intended to be all-inclusive.
• The City of Wichita reserves the right to assign additional responsibilities as needed.

• Thorough knowledge of accounting and/or auditing principles and practices, and ability to apply and adapt standard methods to varied and complex accounting and/or auditing activities.
• Thorough knowledge of, and ability to use computer keyboard and video display monitor in spreadsheet development, using complex mathematical and statistical operations.
• Considerable knowledge of macro systems in electronic spreadsheet development.
• Knowledge of the theory and procedures of governmental and utility accounting.
• Knowledge of modern office practices and procedures.
• Ability to develop and implement accounting and auditing systems and procedures.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates, other employees, representatives of outside agencies, City officials, and the public.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.
• May require ability to acquire and maintain a valid Kansas driver's license.
• An employee shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace

Required Experience and Training

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in Accounting or Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting OR an active Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license with a bachelor's degree in accounting, Business Administration, Finance or Economics.
• Two (2) years of experience performing accounting and/or auditing functions.
• One (1) year of financial systems experience.

Preferred Experience and Training

• Three (3) months Professional experience in governmental accounting or auditing including applying Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) standards and/or governmental accounting…