Depending on area of assignment:- Prepares, monitors, verifies and balances departmental budget or other complex financial records and reports.- Understands, applies and trains other personnel in the proper billing of all utility services.- Interacts with other departments to ensure appropriate billing of utility services to customers.- Analyzes quotes and reviews, manages and administers departmental contracts.- Performs technical bookkeeping work, including journal entries to update the general ledger.- Accesses, interprets and determines the best methods to extract information from appropriate computer and manual systems to analyze, prepare and/or resolve financial and billing issues.- Analyzes large demand accounts to make billing corrections.- Analyzes and resolves the most sensitive and complex billing issues.- Interacts with vendor representatives and handles complaint issues.- Acts as the department resource for procurement of needed services, supplies, materials, andequipment.- Processes, reconciles and audits travel requests and reports and ensures compliance with appropriate City policies and procedures.- Compiles and prepares varied and complex financial reports for supervisors, internal and external auditors and/or local and state agencies.- Trains other City employees to understand and comply with departmental and organizational policies and procedures.- Attends work on a continuous and regular basis.- May act in absence of a supervisor.- Performs other related duties as assigned.
1-4 years
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is often required to sit for prolonged periods of time.- May, on occasion, require lifting, pushing, and/or pulling (less than 20 pounds).- Ability to skillfully operate computers and relevant software and other business machines.- Ability to perform front-end editing of financial data to ensure accuracy and resolve issues.- Ability to make mathematical calculations with reasonable speed and accuracy.- Ability to analyze, evaluate and resolve complex accounting, billing and payroll problems.
- High school or possession of an acceptable equivalency diploma- Five years of experience in accounting, bookkeeping or other revenue-related accounting work, including two years in municipal accounting or finance performing complex clerical and sub-professional accounting functions; or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience which provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities.- An Associate of Arts degree with at least 12 semester hours of accounting can be substituted for one year of experience.- Typing at a speed acceptable to departmental needs.- Thorough knowledge of the City budgeting process, City ordinances, policies, systems, procedures governing its financial administration.- Knowledge of applicable City computer and manual purchasing, billing and customer systems.- Knowledge of and ability to process routine and semi-complex payroll, including hours of work and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
High School
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