FINANCIAL ANALYST IV
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Accounting/Payroll Specialist (Promotional)
City of El Paso
MASS TRANSIT ADMIN
Location
El Paso, Texas, 79901
Salary
$41,679.87 - $60,852.61
per year
Type
Full-Time
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March 4, 2026
Job Description
Summary
This job involves handling key financial tasks like preparing payroll for a large department, managing budgets, processing payments, and ensuring accurate records in a city transit office.
It requires overseeing accounting duties such as tracking expenses, resolving billing issues, and generating reports to support smooth operations.
A good fit would be someone detail-oriented with experience in finance or payroll who enjoys working with numbers and databases in a supportive team environment.
Key Requirements
- High School diploma, GED, or higher education
- Four years of experience in budget, accounting, or payroll support
- Proficiency in payroll preparation, including data entry, discrepancy resolution, and distribution
- Skills in accounts payable/receivable, billing, and collections
- Ability to develop and maintain spreadsheets for financial tracking
- Experience with database management and generating financial reports
- Capability to analyze trends and assist in budget preparation
Full Job Description
MOS Code: 89A (Army), 441 (Coast Guard), 1005 (Navy), 0111 (Marine Corps)
Education and Experience: A High School diploma, GED or higher and four (4) years of budget, accounting or payroll support experience.
Licenses and Certificates: None.
Requirements
Under general supervision, direct or perform responsible paraprofessional fiscal support functions related to contract or grant administration, budget preparation, database quality control, large scale departmental payroll preparation or dispute resolution, as required.
Qualifications
Oversee or engage in diverse accounting clerical duties pertaining to any combination of payroll, accounts payable or receivable, or automated billing or collection. Involves: Ensure accuracy of records, receive documents, check for accuracy and route for timely payment. Perform discount calculations, investigate and solve payment problems or complaints, and track purchase orders, requisitions, construction contracts, or change orders. Process independent contractor payments. Develop and maintain spreadsheets to track budget or other financial activity. Monitor approval of expenditures through approval of requisitions. Develop collection procedures. Generate computerized and manual billing accounts, update system files, coordinate running various billing programs to generate electronic bills and transmit bills, post and balance receipts. Notify entities of funds deposited to their accounts. Maintain customer accounts and records, generate invoices for payment, verify payment and posting of accounts, monitor delinquent account activity. Reconcile accounts. Verify bank deposits of collections for taxes, fees, sales, services, leases, liens, loan payments and rentals. Distribute and reconcile petty cash. Oversee and monitor payroll preparation. Enter data and research discrepancies. Record and document direct deposit and court ordered wage attachments, maintain records of wage attachments or voluntary deductions. Print paychecks, direct deposit advices and distribute individual paychecks to departments for disbursement. Open and close payroll cycles and assist in year-end closing activities including distribution of income tax forms. Respond to payroll related inquiries. Train other payroll personnel.
Participate in development and maintenance of financial and human resource database management system, and analyze information archived and processed to assure quality. Involves: Enter, retrieve and review accounting data from the centralized financial management system or source documents. Generate periodic accounting or statistical reports to management or regulatory agencies. Prepare state and federal grant reimbursement and advance forms and track expenditure of grant funds. Analyze trends and assist in preparation of the annual operating or capital improvement budget or other regular reports. Request and review daily reports to monitor system performance and advise users of errors. Provide backup assistance to other staff to ensure continuity of services.
Develop and maintain the mortgage company collection system, if assigned. Involves: Generate computerized and manual tax billing accounts for financial institutions, generate electronic bills and transmit bills to financial institutions, post and balance receipts. Notify taxing entities of funds deposited to their accounts. Maintain collection system integrity and database, perform daily system backup on tape, maintain system and user security, create and modify transaction codes. Coordinate input and annual update of tax rates, generation of annual tax bills, coordinate the actions required in yearly cyclical appraisal, billing, collection and distribution of taxes, request and review daily reports to monitor system performance and advise users of errors.
Supervise or serve as leadworker to designated employees. Involves: Assign, schedule, guide and monitor work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and development. Counsel, motivate and maintain harmony. Identify and resolve staff differences, conflicts and deficiencies. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards. Interview applicants. Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, merit pay or other employee status changes.
Additional Information
For a complete job specification, click here.
Please note: This recruitment is limited to employees working with the City of El Paso.
Important Note: The required Supplemental Questions and answers are considered an examination component and will generate a score.
Applicants are being tested on a conditional basis pending a review of minimum qualifications. Applications will be reviewed for applicants who pass the Supplemental Questions exam.
Per CSC Rules & Regulations, after review of the minimum qualifications for applicants that pass the Supplemental Questions exam, a passing score, combined with applicable seniority points and veteran points, will be used to create a list of candidates.
Applicants are being tested on a conditional basis pending a review of minimum qualifications. Applications will be reviewed for applicants who pass the Supplemental Questions exam.
Per CSC Rules & Regulations, after review of the minimum qualifications for applicants that pass the Supplemental Questions exam, a passing score, combined with applicable seniority points and veteran points, will be used to create a list of candidates.
Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.
Please note: Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information.
A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.
To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.
Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.
To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.
Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.
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