Accountant - $55,881 - $69,857

Discover Gila County, Inc.; Globe (AZ); On-site; USD 56,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Discover Gila County, Inc. in Globe, AZ seeks an Accountant to support finance operations, maintain fiscal records, and ensure compliance with policies. You will process, record, update, and reconcile financial data while advising management on expenditures against budget.

Responsibilities include budgeting support, policy updates, annual financial statements, and liaising with auditors. You will handle bank reconciliations and post-award grant administration as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and two years accounting experience, preferably in public sector.
• Ability to perform essential accounting duties and financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Performs complex accounting activities including reviewing, reconciling, and analyzing transactions.
• Assists in budget preparation, review, and policy development.
• Supports annual financial statements and coordination with external auditors.
• Manages bank reconciliations and revenue/expense recognition timing.
• Oversees asset management and depreciation tracking.

Skills

Accounting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Job description

Accountant -Finance - $55,881 - $69,857

Globe, AZ - Full Time

• The purpose of this position is to provide support to management and departments with specific responsibility for the processing, recording, updating and reconciling of fiscal information in compliance with established policies and providing instruction, recommendation and/or accounting support to other personnel and analyzing expenditures against budget. This position may also be responsible for the operations of post-award grant administration and related accounting activities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs complex accounting activities, which may include: reviewing, researching, and analyzing transactions; tracking and analyzing expenditures; reconciling and analyzing accounts; researching technical accounting issues; compiling and analyzing financial data; tracking capital project expenditures; monitoring general ledger accounts; reconciling accounts and financial system modules.

• Assists in the preparation of budgets, including assembling, reviewing and evaluation of supporting accounting and statistical data.

• Assists in preparing and implementing annual budget and accounting related policies and procedures; makes recommendations and/or updates to existing accounting policy and procedures.

• Assists in the preparation of the annual financial statements and works closely with outside auditors to complete the annual audit including the annual expenditure limitation report.

• Performs bank statement reconciliation including case reconciliation between the Finance financial system and the Treasurer’s financial system.

• Responsible for financial reporting including determining the proper timing and application of revenue and expense recognition.

• Performs post-award grant administration and related accounting duties; including budget and expense analysis, periodic invoicing, financial reporting, labor distribution changes and associated communications with other employees. This also includes preparation of the County’s annual Schedule of Financial Awards (SEFA) and verifying information from documents and journals.

• Responsible for all administrative processes related to asset management including accurate tracking reporting, depreciation and disposal.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

MinimumQualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, and two (2) years accounting experience preferably in public sector accounting; or any equivalent combination of education, training and experience which demonstates the ability to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job.

Professional Credentials Required

• Must possess and maintain a valid Driver’s License if position duties require.

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