Job Description
The Accountant II is responsible for maintaining and managing the city's fixed asset records, ensuring proper accounting for capital expenditures, depreciation, and disposals. The role involves regular analysis and reconciliation of fixed asset accounts, review of expense accounts, and collaborating with various departments to ensure compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements. The Accountant II will also assist in audits, reporting, and other financial management tasks related to fixed assets. The Accountant II will need to be proactive in researching and resolving any discrepancies to ensure all Fixed Assets are posted in a timely manner. This position will be responsible to determine the proper coding and support is received for Fixed Asset purchases. The individual will be the subject matter expert to manage the financials for the Self-Funded Health Plans and Self-Insurance Funds, which includes determining and processing accounting transactions, reconciliation, and analysis on a monthly and annual basis, in preparation for the year-end audit and compilation of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR). This position involves preparing financial reports, conducting budget analysis, forecasting, and supporting the financial planning process for insurance funds. The individual will have strong Excel skills, be comfortable working with large data sets, work independently to troubleshoot and resolve issues, and communicate with key stakeholders.
Responsibilities will include
- Prepares financial statements, journal entries, queries and reports from PeopleSoft (Oracle) Financial System
- Assists with the production of the City's Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
- Maintains Fixed Assets
- Processes monthly/quarterly transactions for allocated costs and other transactions
- Completes assigned analysis and workpapers for City's annual audit
- Researches and analyzes financial and accounting records to determine sequence of operations, accruals, and account resolutions
- Makes recommendations for, plans, implements, and/or administers account resolutions and related activities
- Coordinates and participates in the processing of account related information such as budget preparation, financial analysis, payroll, accounts receivable, and/or accounts payable
- Support the development of annual budgets and forecasts, working closely with department heads to gather data and ensure accuracy.
- Perform variance analysis to compare actual financial results against the budget and prior periods.
- Verifies, monitors, and reconciles accounts
- Collects, enters, updates, and maintains account information
- Performs reconciliations between the PeopleSoft accounting system and the iVos/Risconnect risk management system to ensure they match
- Prepares and submits requests for ACH and wire payments to the Treasurer's Office
- Serves as Finance Subject Matter Expert liaison to assigned departments
- Interacts with staff, different departments, and/or external agencies to ensure accuracy of accounts, responds to inquiries, and provides accounting support
- Administers the activities of assigned accounting projects
- Performs related tasks as necessary such as assisting with the implementation of policies and procedures
- Performs other related duties as assigned
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
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The Accountant II is responsible for maintaining and managing the city's fixed asset records, ensuring proper accounting for capital expenditures, depreciation, and disposals. The role involves regular analysis and reconciliation of fixed asset accounts, review of expense accounts, and collaborating with various departments to ensure compliance with accounting policies and regulatory requirements. The Accountant II will also assist in audits, reporting, and other financial management tasks related to fixed assets. The Accountant II will need to be proactive in researching and resolving any discrepancies to ensure all Fixed Assets are posted in a timely manner. This position will be responsible to determine the proper coding and support is received for Fixed Asset purchases. The individual will be the subject matter expert to manage the financials for the Self-Funded Health Plans and Self-Insurance Funds, which includes determining and processing accounting transactions, reconciliation, and analysis on a monthly and annual basis, in preparation for the year-end audit and compilation of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR). This position involves preparing financial reports, conducting budget analysis, forecasting, and supporting the financial planning process for insurance funds. The individual will have strong Excel skills, be comfortable working with large data sets, work independently to troubleshoot and resolve issues, and communicate with key stakeholders.
Responsibilities will include
- Prepares financial statements, journal entries, queries and reports from PeopleSoft (Oracle) Financial System
- Assists with the production of the City's Annual Comprehensive Financial Report
- Maintains Fixed Assets
- Processes monthly/quarterly transactions for allocated costs and other transactions
- Completes assigned analysis and workpapers for City's annual audit
- Researches and analyzes financial and accounting records to determine sequence of operations, accruals, and account resolutions
- Makes recommendations for, plans, implements, and/or administers account resolutions and related activities
- Coordinates and participates in the processing of account related information such as budget preparation, financial analysis, payroll, accounts receivable, and/or accounts payable
- Support the development of annual budgets and forecasts, working closely with department heads to gather data and ensure accuracy.
- Perform variance analysis to compare actual financial results against the budget and prior periods.
- Verifies, monitors, and reconciles accounts
- Collects, enters, updates, and maintains account information
- Performs reconciliations between the PeopleSoft accounting system and the iVos/Risconnect risk management system to ensure they match
- Prepares and submits requests for ACH and wire payments to the Treasurer's Office
- Serves as Finance Subject Matter Expert liaison to assigned departments
- Interacts with staff, different departments, and/or external agencies to ensure accuracy of accounts, responds to inquiries, and provides accounting support
- Administers the activities of assigned accounting projects
- Performs related tasks as necessary such as assisting with the implementation of policies and procedures
- Performs other related duties as assigned
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
PM22
About City of Chesapeake
Chesapeake, Virginia is a vibrant community that enjoys the best of two worlds, one of urban variety, culture, and excitement, and another of rural landscapes and relaxed living.
Located 20 minutes from the oceanfront, 15 minutes from downtown Norfolk, and 45 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Chesapeake is the perfect place in which to live, work, and raise a family.
Home to beautiful parks, lakes, and rivers, Chesapeake has more miles of deepwater canals (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) than any other city in the country!
The City of Chesapeake was formed through the merger of the City of South Norfolk and Norfolk County in 1963. It’s a community of communities, with each having its own distinctive history.
Over the last decade, many national and international companies have taken advantage of the City’s ports, atmosphere, and highly qualified labor market by relocating to Chesapeake.
Chesapeake’s neighborhoods offer a variety of comfortable housing alternatives, from apartments and town homes, to single-family residences and executive homes. The City is consistently ranked by the FBI as one of the safest U.S. cities (with populations over 150,000), which lends to the safe, community atmosphere that residents enjoy.
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