Senior Accounting Technician

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. To provide supervision and direction to assigned personnel and to perform the more complex and paraprofessional accounting duties.

The Senior Accounting Technician is given independent responsibility for the completion of paraprofessional accounting duties. This class is distinguished from an Accounting Technician in that the Senior Accounting Technician is required to exercise independent judgment and initiative and to supervise, schedule, assign, and coordinate the work of assigned personnel.

Direction is provided by professional or management personnel. Responsibilities include the direct supervision of paraprofessional accounting and general clerical personnel.

• Plan, schedule, and assign work to subordinate accounting and clerical personnel.
• Review the work of assigned personnel to determine accuracy of accounting records.
• Supervise and participate in the preparation and auditing of materials requiring analyses of supporting documents insuring that 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.
• Supervise and participate in the preparation of a variety of State, Federal, and local claims, statements, and reports from various sources.
• Answer questions and advise on procedures in preparing accounting transactions.
• Provide data on monies due, collected, and delinquent for accounting information and annual auditors 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.
• Train assigned personnel.
• Other related duties may also be performed; not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each individual holding this classification.

• Principles and practices of financial record keeping.
• Basic accounting principles.
• Modern office procedures and equipment.
• Principles of supervision and training.

• Understand and interpret the principles, laws, and procedures involved in fiscal record keeping and accounting functions.
• Prepare financial reports and maintain ledgers and journals.
• Analyze data and draw logical conclusions.
• Supervise and train assigned personnel.

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:

• Four years of experience performing financial and statistical record keeping including one year at the paraprofessional level maintaining an accounting system.

• Specialized courses in accounting and business practices.

Should education be used to qualify for this position, then 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.

Evaluation of education records will be due at time of appointment.

• Application: (Pass/Fail) – All applicants must complete and submit online a City of Sacramento employment application by the final filing deadline;
  Employment applications must be submitted online; paper applications will not be accepted.
• Employment applications will be considered incomplete and will be disqualified if applicants do not list current and/or past job-related experience in the duties area of the "Work…