ACCOUNTING OFFICER II - EMERGENCY APPOINTMENT (HOMELESSNESS)

Full Job Description

Requirements

• Plans, assigns, directs, and evaluates the work of the accounting, budget compilation and control, cashiering, supply, payroll, statistical, data processing, or other staff or service activities of a department.
• Advises and consults with management concerning the accounting and financial implications of existing and projected departmental activities.
• Supervises or personally conducts cost, revenue, and accounting systems and procedures studies, writes reports of findings; and secures approval for implementation of recommendations from departmental administration and the Auditor-Controller when necessary.
• Analyzes and interprets accounting provisions of laws and regulations and recommends steps for their implementation.
• Administers revenue producing agreements.
• Coordinates the work of subordinate accounting and other activities with the work of other divisions, departments, and clientele.
• May act as immediate assistant to a higher level accounting officer.

Qualifications

**You may still qualify even if your job title isn’t exactly the same as the ones listed. What matters is that your experience is at a similar level — meaning your job involves similar responsibilities, requires comparable skills and knowledge, and takes place within a similar organizational structure. Please provide a clear explanation of your experience to demonstrate that it is at the appropriate level.

***Experience at the level of Accountant III is defined as performing responsible and highly complex professional accounting and auditing work in the preparation, analysis, review, maintenance, reconciliation and control of financial records and fiscal revenue and expenditures forecasting.

****Experience at the level of Intermediate Accountant-Auditor is defined as conducting management, performance, financial, and compliance audits and other studies of the organization and contract providers.

*****Experience at the level of Accounting Officer I is defined as performing professional accounting work and directing a small staff of five or more engaged in the operation of an accounting system with a general accounting of approximately 2,000 appropriations, funds, proprietaries, and revenue accounts OR accounts payable, accounts receivable, or trust accounting of approximately 5,000 active accounts.

• Experience working for a public homelessness services agency, such as LAHSA, within the last 6 months.
• One (1) year of experience in governmental/fund accounting.
• Two (2) years of experience with braided funding in a government agency.
• Two (2) years of experience using eCAPs, MIP Abila, or other financial system.
• Two (2) years of general supervision experience.
• Two (2) years of experience managing complex accounting operations and financial analysis.
• Two (2) years of experience analyzing large sets of data.
• Advanced experience using Microsoft Excel, including sorting, filtering, creating and editing tables, and using formulas.

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