Senior Accountant - G124 - Finance - Columbus Consolidated Government

This position is responsible for performing technical accounting duties in support of the financial reporting and accounts payable functions of the department.

• Assists with training and supervising the accounts payable process within the Accounting Division.
• Preparation and distribution of monthly financial statements for the City’s 50+ funds.
• Oversees and performs the daily analysis and reconciliation of the government’s cash position.
• Daily analysis and recording of all revenues in the City’s financial system.
• Analyzes, prepares, and posts corrective journal entries in the City’s financial system.
• Assists the Accounting Manager with the day-to-day operations of the division and serves as lead in the absence of the Accounting Manager.
•  Assists the Accounting Manager with the preparation of the City’s external audit to include preparation and posting of all year-end closing journal entries.
• Prepares and analyzes a variety of month-end, quarterly, and annual financial reports to state agencies to include the Report of Local Government Finances for the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
• Prepares various budgetary schedules for the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR).
• Processes monthly property tax payments received from the Tax Commissioner’s office to include TAD receipts and payment of taxes to the Development Authority and posting the receipts to the funds that receive tax revenue.
• Post all investment-related activity to the general ledger and reconcile investments on a monthly basis to ensure all activity has been posted and the general ledger balances to the statements provided by the investment officer.
• Post all pension investment-related activity to the general ledger.  Reconcile investments on a quarterly basis to ensure that all activity has been posted and the general ledger and balances to the statements provided by the investment officer.
• Enter all debt service schedules into the city’s database.  Determine monthly payments and provide those to Cash Management to process ACH/Wire payments.
• Responsible for monthly payment of Hotel/Motel payments to the agencies that receive hotel/motel taxes in conjunction with the Revenue Division to determine the amount of tax collections to distribute.
• Participates in all upgrades of the City’s financial system.
• Answers questions and assists citizens, auditors, officials, and other government employees.
• Provides complex financial information required by management to make critical decisions.
• Writes custom reports from the City’s financial system as needed for problem-solving and analysis.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

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