Senior Accountant, City of Cayce
Assists in necessary training, work assignments, evaluations, and counseling as appropriate. Assists in maintaining central accounting and financial reporting system(s) for the City in accordance with established, accepted accounting principles and practices, and in sufficient detail to produce accurate and effective cost, financial, and statistical data for management purposes.
Supervises the disbursement of City funds to include payroll and accounts payable in accordance with budgetary authority and legal requirements. Examines accounts, vouchers, and requests for payment, payroll documents, invoices, tax statements, general ledger entries, check registers, and related records as necessary in the maintenance and control of expenditures. Assists in the preparation of the City’s annual requested budget; Reviews, evaluates, and makes recommendations on department budget requests, supplemental appropriations, and budgetary transfers;
Assists in the preparation of the City’s annual requested budget; Reviews, evaluates, and makes recommendations on department budget requests, supplemental appropriations, and budgetary transfers; Assists City Treasurer in preparing the final budget. Assists in preparation the City ACFR (Annual Comprehensive Financial Report) in a manner that meets the highest standards of reporting.
Requires Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field. Requires three to four years of progressively responsible experience in governmental accounting or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required skills, knowledge, and abilities.
Requires gathering, organizing, analyzing, examining, or evaluating data or information and may prescribe action based on such data or information. Requires coordinating the activities of those operating complex software used for programming custom applications, and the application of custom or commercial financial, accounting, and administrative or other complex software or systems; may involve installation and testing. Involves operations of moderate scope.
Requires performing coordinating work involving guidelines and rules with constant problem solving. Requires using algebra working with such factors as exponents, logarithms, linear and quadratic equations, differentiation and integration of algebraic functions, statistics applying such functions as frequency distribution, reliability, validity and correlation techniques, and finance and economics using financial and econometric models. Requires reading journals, manuals, and professional publications.
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