[Hiring] Senior Accountant @City of Raleigh North Carolina

Role Description

Are you ready to make an impact through meaningful financial work? The City of Raleigh Accounting department is seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to join its team. In this role, you will help ensure the City’s financial integrity by:

• Preparing accurate financial statements
• Analyzing financial data
• Supporting audits and reporting processes
• Contributing to key financial publications
• Researching new accounting pronouncements
• Collaborating with departments across the City to provide expert guidance on accounting, financial reporting, and grant management

This is an opportunity to apply your accounting expertise while supporting responsible financial management and the services our community depends on.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field
• 3 to 5 years' experience in accounting or a related field
• Any equivalent combination of training and/or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may be substituted

Requirements

• Knowledge of governmental accounting and financial reporting (including GAAP and Governmental Accounting Standards Board)
• Grant management and reporting and subrecipient monitoring for grant compliance
• Bonds management
• Account reconciliations and bank to cash reconciliations
• Payroll and benefits; capital asset management and reporting; sales tax reporting
• Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
• Budget management and procurement
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and any software applications relevant to the position
• Modern office practices and procedures including the use of standard office equipment and computer applications such as word processing, databases, and spreadsheet applications

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 13 paid holidays
• Vacation and sick days
• Retirement plans
• And much more

Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepares monthly journal entries and continuously reviews financial records and ledgers for accuracy for all City departments
• Coordinates with other central internal service departments including Accounts Payable, Procurement, Revenue, and Treasury to ensure monthly records are accurate and properly recorded
• Provides monthly financial support to the State for sales tax payments and sales tax reimbursements
• Records monthly/quarterly financial records from counties for property, rental vehicle, occupancy, franchise, and other taxes
• Conducts advanced analysis, performing complex account reconciliations and bank to cash reconciliations on a monthly basis
• Conducts research on variances found in reconciliations and coordinates with departments to resolve
• Serves as a subject matter expert to all City departments for accounting treatments and necessary adjustments
• Provides suggestions on proper internal controls, policies, and procedures to all City departments
• Researches existing and newly required accounting pronouncements issued by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board as well as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Coordinates with City departments and provides training on implementing the new accounting pronouncements
• Reviews and approves grant reimbursement requests for all City departments on a monthly/quarterly basis
• Monitors the budget and reporting for each grant to ensure compliance with grant award agreements with federal and state agencies
• Prepares year-end reporting of grant fund financial statements as well as reconciliations of each grant for all departments
• Conducts research on single audit requirements to ensure compliance with federal and state grant award agreements
• Coordinates external auditors with annual single audits on all City-wide grants as required by the federal government
• Recommends grant process improvements to all City departments and provides trainings to City departments staff regarding eligible activities, grant management and reporting, and cash management
• Prepares Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports (ACFR)
• Prepares and reviews complex financial statements, schedules, notes to financial statements, and demographic and statistical information
• Performs monthly bond drawdown eligibility determinations for the City's bonds
• Performs related duties as required