Accounting Technician

Position Overview

The Department of Public Works, Parking Services Division, is seeking an Accounting Technician to assist the division’s Fiscal Team. With supervisor approval, incumbents may be eligible for intermittent remote work; however, they must physically reside within the Sacramento region or have the ability to regularly report to a City of Sacramento physical worksite with little notice. The position will be responsible for tracking, reconciling, and recording revenues for the various business lines, monthly billing, preparing financial reports, providing customer service, and gathering data.

• Prepare and audit materials requiring analyses of supporting documents ensuring all entries and adjustments are entered properly in the system.
• Identify and resolve problems and inconsistencies, determining corrective entries involved in maintaining accounting controls.
• Examine, reconcile, balance, and adjust accounting records.
• Prepare a variety of State, Federal, and local claims, statements, and reports from a variety of sources including preliminary data, accounting records, and computer printouts.
• Answer questions and advise on procedures in preparing accounting transactions.
• Provide data on monies due, collected, and delinquent for accounting information and annual auditor reports.
• Prepare and submit accounting information for data processing; reconcile any differences between accounting records and data processing reports; request reports and end‑of‑year printouts from data processing.
• Coordinate accounting activities with other City departments, divisions, and sections.
• Other related duties may also be performed.

• Knowledge of principles and practices of financial record keeping.
• Basic accounting principles.
• Modern office procedures and equipment.

Any combination of experience and education that would provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

• Experience:
  
  Three years of increasingly responsible experience in the maintenance of financial, fiscal and related statistical records.
• Education:
  
  Specialized courses in accounting and business practices.

Should education be used to qualify for this position, proof of education such as, but not limited to, university/college transcripts and degrees should be submitted with your application and will be required at the time of appointment. Unofficial documents and/or copies are acceptable. An applicant with a college degree obtained outside the United States must have education records evaluated by a credentials evaluation service.

Employees must complete twelve (12) months of probation at a satisfactory performance level prior to gaining permanent status.

The City of Sacramento is an equal‑opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.

Did you know that the City offers bilingual pay? That's right, most labor agreements offer the option of providing employees with bilingual pay if the department deems it to be operationally necessary.

The City of Sacramento is covered by the California Public Employees' Retirement System, and as such, must adhere to the California Public Employee's Pension Reform Act (PEPRA) of 2013. Please note that the provisions within this act may affect or impact an applicant's eligibility and/or selection for open vacancies at the City of Sacramento.