Accountant, Senior (Provisional)

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• Referral Bonus
• Tuition Assistance Program

The City of Richmond Department of Public Works is seeking a highly qualified candidate to fill the position of Accountant Senior. The incumbent is to provide accounting functions and financial management and reporting in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The incumbent is responsible for reconciling funds and accounts in the assigned area of responsibility reviewing expenditures performing analysis preparing financial reports and tracking revenue.

• Preparing journal vouchers and re-class invoices
• Preparing monthly SEFA Report
• Tracking and recording revenue for Capital Improvement Projects
• Preparing deposit forms
• Maintaining the projects and awards module in Oracle for department by creating new projects budgeting/transferring funds for projects and reconciling project/awards balances
• Analyzing and verifying monthly Lead Schedule expenses/revenue for the special fund
• Conducting annual inventory of assets for the department
• Preparing reconciliations related to fixed assets and the CWIP Schedule
• Creating/updating standard operating procedures as needed
• Performing other related duties as assigned

MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors degree in accounting finance business administration or related field; or training and education equivalent to four years of college education
• Five years of journey-level professional accounting experience such as financial forecasting reconciliation of statements and accounts and supervision of an accounting unit performing payroll cashiering or payables/receivables processing
• An equivalent combination of training and experience (as approved by the department) may be used to meet the minimum qualifications of the classification

• At least three (3) years of experience using RAPIDS and EIS
• At least three (3) years of experience using OnBase

LICENSING CERTIFICATIONS and OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• None required

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
TYPICAL KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES: These are a representative sample; position assignments may vary.

Knowledge (some combination of the following):

• Accounting
• Administration and management principles and approaches
• Audit principles
• Budgeting
• City services
• Computer programs such as Microsoft Office Suite
• Cost accounting techniques
• Electronic databases and related software applications such as Rapids Cityworks NEOGov and RAPIDS
• Federal state and local government accounting
• Financial statement preparation
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Human Resources such as employee regulations and personnel rules
• Learning strategies
• Mathematics
• Office of Management and Budget Circular 133
• Procurement
• Systems analysis and evaluation

Skills (some combination of the following):

• Analyzing budget and cost and expenditures
• Attending necessary meetings
• Communicating with various internal and external departments
• Compiling and analyzing account information
• Designing implementing and controlling data using self-made applications
• Developing monitoring reporting and forecasting related to assigned budgets
• Performing data entry
• Performing financial management and analysis duties for assigned grant
• Preparing and confirming invoices for various customers
• Producing various variance and financial reports
• Possessing financial analysis skills
• Posting journal entries
• Reporting and tracking documents
• Serving as liaison to necessary parties
• Supervising as applicable
• Using office equipment
• Verifying invoices
• Working effectively both independently and on a team
• Writing clearly and succinctly
• Customer service
• Verbal and written communication

Abilities (some combination of the following):

• Pay attention to detail
• Problem solve
• Critically think
• Meet deadlines
• Make important decisions
• Manage time

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The City of Richmond provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

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This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruitment hiring placement promotion termination layoff transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

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