The purpose of this job is to perform advanced professional accounting and financial work involving collecting, maintaining, reconciling, compiling, analyzing and reporting information on technical, demographic, and financial data of the City to serve as a basis for reporting, rate setting, monitoring or other financial analysis. The employee may supervise and/or give guidance and direction to other employees in the department.

• Prepares the financial statements and notes for assigned funds in the City's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR); guides other department staff with issues
• Develops and implements accounting and financial procedures and internal controls; develops and implements accounting system modifications and changes
• Composes the initial draft of new CAFR text for the letter of transmittal, notes and management discussion and analysis
• Maintains and reconciles accounts and journal entries; develops, monitors, reviews, verifies, posts to the journal, reconciles, adjusts, approves and presents for audit the department or office accounts including receivables, payables, reimbursements, rents, revenues, billings, collections, cash receipts and accounts, bank statements, vendor statements, payroll, disbursements, insurance, inventory, overhead, capital depreciation, debt schedules, purchase orders, encumbrances, charts of account and the like
• Prepares estimates of receivables and payables during budget development; prepares, analyzes and estimates annual revenues, reimbursements and disbursements; prepares or assists in budget development; monitors and reviews budget status
• Collects, compiles, analyzes and reports information on technical, demographic and financial data to serve as a basis for reporting, analysis or rate setting; performs simple and highly complex multi-variant regression analysis
• Prepares a variety of reports based on analyzed data; prepares annual operating budgets and five-year capital budget; prepares financial reports for city funds
• Some positions may supervise lower level positions
• Responds to information requests
• Serves on various committees and management teams as assigned