Prepares, reviews, and monitors grants, contracts, claims, and other financial agreements and proposals; prepares financial statements, balance sheets, income and expense reports, and cash flow analysis.
Assigns, directs, and reviews the work of professional and para-professional staff; interviews and selects employees; provides training; reviews work for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with established requirements; evaluates work performance; and recommends transfers, reassignment, and discipline.
Prepares, analyzes, evaluates, and monitors a program, a division, or the department's budget, and other designated budgets; prepares income and expenditure projections for budget preparation; analyzes program and project costs; provides recommendations.
Prepares or verifies a variety of simple to complex accounting, statistical, and narrative statements or reports, requiring analysis and interpretation of data.
Provides specific accounting and budgetary consultation to departments, divisions, or programs; responds to inquiries, resolves issues and conflicts, and provides detailed and technical information concerning related standards, practices, pending legislation, laws, codes, regulations, polices, and procedures; attends and participates in various meetings, committees, and professional groups.
Identifies, develops, and implements policies, procedures, techniques, and systems to enhance fiscal accuracy, operational efficiency, financial effectiveness, and compliance with established requirements
Performs professional accounting and budgetary duties involved in establishing, analyzing, reviewing, reconciling, monitoring, and maintaining financial records and reports; ensures financial activity of assigned accounts.
Monitors cash flow from enterprise funds, internal service funds, special revenue, and special district funds; prepares cash flow analyses and funding requirements for various funds and projects.
Calculates, posts, and adjusts journal entries; updates accounts to reflect revenue and expenditures; audits accounts for errors and makes appropriate adjustments; coordinates and reconciles different computer financial systems; reconciles various financial statements to ensure accurate fund accounting; matches financial statements with cash amounts; initiates account transfers and other transactions as needed; utilizes manual and computerized recordkeeping systems.
Reviews, analyzes, and documents a variety of accounts and transactions; reconciles general ledger, cash, and other designated accounting reports and statements with financial records; compares manual and automated records and transactions; identifies errors; verifies account balances; adjusts accounts; initiates transfers; and makes corrections.
Maintains current knowledge of and complies with applicable laws, codes, rules, regulations, established policies and procedures, and with generally accepted accounting principles; ensures accuracy of input and output data.
Communicates with County staff, governmental agencies, and outside organizations to exchange information, coordinate activities, resolves issues and concerns; prepares and submits mandated reports within established timeframes.
Requirements :
Education:
Completion of the requirements for a bachelor's degree, from an accredited college or university, in accounting, or a related field with an emphasis in accounting or auditing
AND
Experience:
Three years of experience performing full working-level accounting duties with a CPA firm, or four years of experience performing full working-level accounting duties in the public or private sector or two years of experience at a level equivalent to an Accountant II in Monterey County.