Accountant

This is the first of six levels in the accounting series. Incumbents compile, review, track, and correct financial data, and prepare routine financial reports. Responsibilities may include updating spreadsheets; reviewing data for errors and initiating corrections; compiling and entering data; processing payroll; completing month and year end closing processes; reconciling assigned ledgers, bank statements and/or reports; completing journal entries; and preparing and reviewing standard reports.

Essential Functions:

• Compiles, processes, reviews, reconciles, and corrects financial data; resolves discrepancies.

• Completes month and year end closing processes.

• Performs professional budgeting and accounting analysis.

• Prepares basic financial reports.

• Identifies variances in financial data from one time to another, research reasons for variances and recommends solutions.

• Prepares financial forecasts and basic financial reports.

• Responds to questions regarding the financial information of assigned department or function.

• Enters data into databases and related files.

• Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.

• Performs other related work as required.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• No accounting experience required.

License and Certifications

• None.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Accounting principles, practices, and procedures.

• Budget forecasting practices.

• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

• Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) principles.

• Applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

• Report preparation techniques.

• Computers and related software applications.

Skill in:

• Applying accounting principles and practices.

• Reading, comprehending, and analyzing financial statements.

• Preparing journal entries.

• Monitoring and reviewing ledgers.

• Organizing, evaluating, and presenting financial data.

• Applying Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

• Computers and related software applications.

• Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.

Physical Requirements:

• The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

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• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound.

• Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.

• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.

• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.

• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.

• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.