Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant is an individual who will perform complex and specialized professional level accounting and auditing work in a number of areas
relating to municipal accounting principles. Provide’s training to department staff. This classification provides the professional level support to the City’s Accounting Section.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review accounting documents to ensure accuracy of information and calculations, and make correcting entries as needed.
• Input all General Ledger vouchers.
• Analyze various general ledger accounts for accuracy, create new account numbers or make changes in account descriptions on the City Chart of Accounts.
• Examine supporting documentation to establish proper authorization and conformance with agreements, contracts, and State and Federal
  regulations.
• Prepare and maintain control of subsidiary accounting records involving a variety of transactions and accounts.
• Prepare trail balances, financial reports, journal entries and periodic reconciliation of the statements.
• Record interest and activity.
• Reconcile and record missed transactions.
• Prepare a variety of journal vouchers on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Research, certify, and calculate special assessment taxation.
• Participate in the evaluation of discipline and of department employee, recommend, merit increase, and discipline assigned employees.
• Maintain expenditure and budgetary control accounts.
• Verify retirement refunds and payments.
• Assist in budget preparation by producing budgetary worksheets to complete projections of revenue and expenditures, spreadsheets of
  department employees, salaries, and benefits, and a variety of other spreadsheets and graphs.
• Perform a variety of other duties assigned.