Riviera Utilities Position Description

Accountant II

RIVIERA UTILITIES

POSITION DESCRIPTIONS

Accountant II

JOB TITLE:Accountant IIDIVISION: Eastern

REPORTS TO:Chief Financial OfficerDEPARTMENT:Financial Services

EFFECTIVE DATE:11/1/2012

SUMMARY:

Accountant II is an intermediate position responsible for performing tasks and participating in activities that support the core processes of the Financial Services Department. These core processes include:

  1. Properly measuring obligations to employees, creditors and others and paying them in a timely manner.
  1. Properly recording revenue and monitoring the acquisition, collection,and safeguarding of assets.
  1. Developing and reporting financial and other pertinent information in an accurate, timely, and effective manner to the appropriate users of that information.

This intermediate level of performance is characterized by the ability to understand and implement accounting principles and functions of intermediate level complexity and produce error free work with a moderate amount of supervisory review. This employee may instruct, mentor and review the work of Accountants I’s as part of the functional structure of the department prior to the work’s submission to the CFO.

Accountants interact with each other, Riviera employees, vendors and customers in a professional manner in the successful performance of their position’s duties and the progressive development of their skills and careers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Essential duties and responsibilities required to function successfully in the Financial Services Department are those required in a full function accounting process and include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Verify the posting of details of daily business transactions to proper departments and accounts in subsidiary journals or computer files or departmental general ledgers from computer generated operational accounting transactions and records.
  1. Maintain, reconcile and balance subsidiary accounts and ledgers to general ledger accounts on an as needed basis, daily or monthly.
  1. Reconcile bank statements, investigate and resolve discrepancies.
  1. Enter data into financial programs using computer interfaces.
  1. Prepare state and federal regulatory agency reports and remittances, including EIA, IRS, SSA, state, county and city tax and statistical reports.
  1. Review and verify biweekly time sheets and prepare and generate timely payroll transactions and payments.
  1. Verify requests for payments to vendors from company purchasers, review supporting authorizations and documentation, verify correctness and accuracy of accounts charged, resolve inaccuracies or insufficiencies and generate timely payments.
  1. Calculate depreciation, accruals and departmental allocations of common expenses and prepare and post adjusting journal entries in the monthly financial statement preparation process.
  1. Verify accuracy of one or more departmental general ledgers and generate related financial statements and statistical reports monthly, review financial statements for accuracy and correctness and report on statistical variations or developing trends to Chief Financial Officer.
  1. Participate in the annual external audit by preparing schedules and reports for auditors or working with, or serving as liaison or coordinator, between audit field personnel and Riviera staff.
  1. Perform administrative tasks necessary for the function of the Financial Services Department and perform special tasks or produce special reports at the request of the Chief Financial Officer or Lead Staff Accountant.
  1. Instructs, mentors, and reviews the work of Accountant I’s to assist them in completing their work, check for errors, answers questions, and provided needed training.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  1. Knowledge of double entry accounting processes and current generally accepted principles of accounting, including the appropriateness of accruals, deferrals, depreciation, estimates, and allocations.
  1. Knowledge of the structure of financial statements, their associated accounts, and their interrelationships including the elements of balance sheets, statements of revenues, expenses and net assets, and cash flows.
  1. Knowledge of Riviera Utilities’ overall operation and mission and the role of the Financial Services Department in it.
  1. Knowledge of basic through intermediate mathematical, arithmetical and statistical principles.
  1. Skill at the intermediate to advanced level in the use of current accounting and word processing programs, including Excel, Word, Adobe Acrobat, e-mail programs, online banking, internet reporting and uploading, and Riviera AS-400 or other operating systems used in the PC and AS/400 environment.
  1. Skill in typing and data entry.
  1. Ability to listen, understand, analyze, and interpret oral and written instructions.
  1. Ability to produce oral or written reports, including tables, charts, and diagrams, as necessary for the performance of essential duties of the various accountant levels.
  1. Ability to effectively and professionally communicate with other employees, supervisors, and service providers.
  1. Ability to maintain and monitor multiple task lists and produce deliverables timely.
  1. Ability to explain applicable financial or statistical results to departmental operational and management personnel.
  1. Ability to work effectively, pleasantly and empathetically as a member of a team, and coordinate work schedules and required deliverables with other team members.
  1. Ability to design effective methods to accomplish novel tasks based on required results.
  1. Ability to demonstrate initiative at each operating level and seek to improve skills through self-instruction or company provided training programs.
  1. Ability to adapt to new procedures or software with proper instruction.
  1. Ability to be professional in conduct and behavior and discreet in matters and information about Riviera, its employees and its business that is entrusted to the employee.
  1. Ability to have regular and predictable attendance at work.

Work Environment and Physical Abilities:

The work environment is primarily that of an office job and the noise and temperature levels are moderate. The job may require occasional visits to non-temperature controlled warehouses and outside areas.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit, use hands to feel objects, handle tools, or operate controls. The employee is required to talk and hear, stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch. The employee must occasionally lift or move objects weighing up to 30 pounds. Specific sensory abilities include normal or corrected vision and hearing.

Minimum qualifications:

  1. 3 years’ experience in an accounting environment performing substantially all of the functions listed in “Essential Duties and Responsibilities” and must be proficient in all facets of “Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities”.
  2. A Bachelors’ Degree or Associate Degree in Accounting or related field may serve in lieu of experience.
  3. Must possess or be able to obtain a valid driver’s license within 60 days of employment.

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