City of Springfield

ACCOUNTANT

Pay Grade: 123

Bargaining Unit: OPEU

FLSA Status: Exempt

Benefits Summary

GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the general supervision of the Accounting and Audit Manager, performs advanced professional accounting work requiring a high degree of independent professional judgment in problem solving, researching solutions, and decision making, and utilizing a proficiency in job-related computer applications. Performs related duties as required.

Essential Duties

1. Develops and maintains complex financial records for funds, projects, grants, activities or other accounting entities.

2. Participates in the development and implementation of accounting and financial management systems and procedures to serve new activities, or to implement changes in the reporting and control requirements for existing activities.

3. Participates in the development of budget estimates, user rate setting analysis, cost allocation plans, equipment replacement calculations, and other financial analyses and studies, by developing appropriate and efficient methods of data gathering, analysis and presentation.

4. Prepares a variety of standard financial reports, analyzing the results to identify anomalous conditions; makes necessary corrections of errors and recommends appropriate solutions for systemic problems.

5. Reviews and monitors accounting practices for compliance with generally accepted accounting principles, internal control policies, and Oregon budget law and City policy.

6. Provides technical analyses, information and professional support to manage-ment and policy bodies on various fiscal, budgetary and financial issues, procedures or systems; assists auditors and others in their reviews of the City's financial procedures, records and systems.

7. Utilizes the department's computerized accounting and budgeting systems to record transactions, extract and manipulate data, and create reports; may troubleshoot problems within the systems.

8. May train, assign, and review the work of accounting technicians.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

General Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and practices; knowledge of governmental fund accounting; knowledge of accepted auditing principles and practices; knowledge of Oregon budget law; knowledge of team management concepts; knowledge of principles used to design and implement accounting systems or procedures for new activities; ability to use computer equipment and software applications proficiently, to include accounting packages, spreadsheets, databases, word processing tools, and the internet; ability to interpret and apply federal and state laws and regulations that control the use of grant revenues or other City financial activities; ability to learn to interpret and apply the City code ordinances and policies; ability to plan and organize work, and function as a team member or team leader; ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships; ability to train and review the work of other staff members; ability to perform highly complex accounting work in an accurate and timely manner; ability to communicate effectively in oral, electronic, and written formats; ability to prepare and deliver presentations to boards, commissions and the City Council.

Experience and Training

Completion, or equivalent, of a job-related four-year college degree program, with a minimum of 30 credit hours in accounting, plus related work experience, typically two years of professional experience in public or municipal accounting, to include experience with automated financial systems. Additional professional experience in public or municipal accounting may be substituted for up to two years of the required college, or any combination of experience and education that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

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