Accountant III

All applicants must apply online at www.bjwsa.org/jobs.

SUMMARY: Under limited supervision, performs routine and non-routine professional accounting work as directed within generally accepted accounting principles, departmental procedures and Authority policies. Duties include processing accounting information, preparing adjusting journal entries, reconciling accounts, and financial reporting as directed.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Duties include but are not limited to:
Manages the corporate employee credit card program ensuring all required approvals and receipts are on record and the BJWSA handbook has been adhered to. Credit card program duties may include program administration.
Reviews customer service daily deposits and NSF transactions. Processes adjustments and corrections as needed.
Reconciles monthly bank statements, including processing cleared checks and monthly stale check report.
Prepares monthly and year-end debt entries and reconciliations.
Prepares sales and consumption report.
Reviews payroll and serves as payroll backup.
Processes W-9 requests.
Processes miscellaneous accounts receivables, which includes preparing and submitting bills such as tower lease payments, water samples, construction reimbursements, military invoicing, etc.
Runs monthly CIS accounts receivable reports, prepares reconciliations, and year end entries.
Reviews all check runs to ensure accuracy, proper approvals and coding.
Maintains and reconciles monthly general prepaids including insurance.
Reviews and analyzes monthly fuel invoices.
Performs quarterly purchase order audit.
Compiles and sends monthly and quarterly garbage & recycling reports to City of Beaufort/WastePro.
Performs other duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance. Requires good analytical skills, computer proficiency with a computerized accounting system, mathematical skills, general accounting knowledge, and a high degree of professional skepticism.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Preferred Certified Public Finance Officer (CPFO) certification from Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) within two years of start date. Must possess a valid driver’s license.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria. Includes exercising discretion in determining actual or probable consequences and in referencing such evaluation to identify and select alternatives.

Computer Proficiency: Must be proficient with computer software processing, including, but not limited to, word processing, spreadsheet, database, and general ledger applications.

Analytical Aptitude: Requires strong analytical skills and the exercise of professional skepticism. All transactions should be analyzed with a questioning mind and a critical assessment of the accounting evidence.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires ability to utilize mathematical formulas; add and subtract totals; multiply and divide; determine percentages and decimals; determine time and weight; and to employ advanced financial and statistical analysis, including the ability to calculate discounts, interest, financial ratios, etc.

Writing Skills: Requires proficiency in written communication, particularly with regards to financial reporting and the documentation of business practices and procedures.

Interpersonal Communications: Requires the ability to apply principles of persuasion and/or influence over others in coordinating activities of a project, program, or designated area of responsibility. Includes the ability to receive information and instruction from supervisor, as well as to communicate such information to other personnel clearly and concisely.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read and comprehend a variety of reports, informational and technical documentation, directions, instructions, policies, and procedures. Requires the ability to write reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech. Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control, and confidence using correct English and well-modulated voice.

Intelligence: Has the ability to apply principles of rational systems such as accounting to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form. Must possess strong analytical skills.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information and to follow verbal and written instructions. Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes in using equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, equipment, control knobs, switches, etc. Must have moderate levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: May require the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under minimal stress when confronted with an emergency.

Physical Communications: Requires the ability to talk and/or hear (talking - expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing - perceiving nature of sounds by ear).

All applicants must apply online at www.bjwsa.org/jobs.