Senior Accountant

POSITION SUMMARY

Senior Accountant will perform professional complex accounting and financial activities handled by the Finance Department. Functional areas of responsibility include general ledger, enterprise funds, grants, analyses, and approval of financial transactions. Preparation of variety of financial reports. Require use of a wide range of procedures that involves planning and/or determining specific procedures to meet assigned objectives and solve non-routine problems.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performs a variety of complex accounting duties within an assigned department, division or fiscal program; functional areas of responsibility include general ledger, enterprise funds, grants, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and treasury; submits reports in accordance with grant requirements; maintains fiscal records; balances appropriations and expenditures; closes out grant upon completion.

• May plan, direct and supervise the work of professional, technical or clerical staff; participates in the selection process; conducts performance evaluations, or provides input into same; provides training and employee development; documents performance issues and discusses corrective actions with management and human resources; recommends corrective or disciplinary action.

• Conducts specialized training on assigned program responsibilities such as grants and categorization of project expenditures, ensuring timely capitalization or assets and project closures.

• Prepares annual financial statements for the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR), including journal entries, reconciliations and financial notes for assigned funds.

• Reviews, analyzes and monitors budgets for departmental programs and projects; interprets financial data to ensure that proper resources are allocated for performance objectives; performs accounting functions within the program or budget including reconciliations, Line Item Transfers, journal entries and purchasing activities; identifies discrepancies and monitors financial activities.

• Monitors projects for financial position and budget performance; works with Project Managers to discuss availability of resources; conducts year end reviews to determine status of project and funding adequacy; creates Financial Resolutions and Administrative Financial Resolutions to request new, or changed, funding and to transfer said funding to appropriate cost center.

• Plans, prepares, reviews, analyzes and monitors grant applications; maintains project files; processes requests for reimbursement and budget adjustments.

• Collaborates and responds to auditor requests including general ledger variances and requests for supporting documentation.

• Reviews and analyzes a variety of accounting records and fiscal activities to ensure accuracy and compliance with accounting/program/legal requirements.

• Reviews financial transactions to ensure that (i) proper cost centers are charged, and (ii) expenditures and revenues are within approved budget.

• Creates journal entries in the general ledger.

• Schedules and facilitates program annual budget review and quarterly budget review meetings for assigned department.

• Prepares a variety of monthly and quarterly financial reporting; for submission to oversight agencies such as the Department of Finance and Administrations, coordinates report development with other departments within the County.

• Prepares a variety of reports for the department, the Budget Office, and the Deputy County Manager including position listing, revenue graphs, appropriation and expenditure reports performance measures and objective.

• May reconcile financial data from payroll and creates bank to bank transfers for payroll withholding related transactions.

• Incumbent(s) in this classification may handle sensitive and/or confidential records, plans, documents or decisions that require maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information. ? 

• Any one position may not include all duties listed. However, the allocation of positions will be determined by the amount of time spent performing the essential duties listed above.

• The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities required of all employees assigned to this job.

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field, and two (2) years of work experience in accounting or finance. Any equivalent combination of related education and/or experience may be considered for the above requirements.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

The offer of this Bernalillo County position requires compliance with the following:

• Employee must successfully complete the post-offer employment medical examination and background investigation.

• Employee must comply with the safety guidelines of the County.

• Employee must complete required FEMA training(s) as assigned to position.

• Depending on assignment, some positions in this classification may require possession of a valid New Mexico driver's license by employment date and maintain a Class C or higher while employed in this position.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ONLY

• Pursuant to the criminal history screening for Caregivers Act, Section 29-17-1 through Section 29-17-5 NMSA 1978, new hires at the MATS facility will be required to complete a caregiver criminal history screening for all caregivers.  Conviction of a disqualifying condition is cause for termination or sufficient reason not to hire if applicant has a disqualifying condition on their record at time of application.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Work is typically performed in an indoor office environment, but occasionally requires travel to other locations.

• Work environments may include noise, dust and/or unpleasant odors, and may occasionally require work in confined spaces.

• Occasional evening, holiday and/or weekend work may be required.

Bernalillo County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.