LEAD ACCOUNTANT

City of Chicago; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 77,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

City of Chicago seeks a Lead Accountant in the Department of Water Management for advanced accounting responsibilities in administration/finance. You will supervise professional accountants, manage complex financial records, and coordinate budgets, grants, and capital programs.

Under general supervision, you will train staff, prepare financial reports, and liaise with budget, comptroller, and state agencies while ensuring internal controls and compliance. Located at 1000 E.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting plus three (3) years of professional accounting experience.
• Should the above criteria not be fulfilled, the following options are acceptable: Graduation.

Responsibilities

• Performs and supervises the work of professional accountants engaged in the management of financial accounts.
• Develops and accesses new or existing computer applications or spreadsheets and records, verifies, and analyzes journal entries for assigned accounts and those managed by subordinates.
• Develops work standards and conducts staff performance evaluations
• Conducts audits of financial documents and reviews those conducted by subordinates to ensure entries are accurate, appropriately allocated to accounts, and comply with contract and funding guidelines, and documents errors and reconciles accounts, as required.
• Monitors the balances of assigned accounts and those of subordinates and adjusts spending levels and fund re-allocations to ensure the availability of funds to cover expenditures.
• Prepares various reports (e.g., program and operating budgets with tiered funding structures, financial statements, balance sheets, financial reports) of a complex nature and reviews those prepared by subordinates.
• Coordinates the analyses of historical records and anticipated economic trends and forecasts future expenses and revenues.
• Coordinates the compilation of complex financial schedules and reports.
• Interprets general accounting principles and financial procedures to management.
• Trains staff on accounting procedures
• Functions as a liaison on accounting-related issues to the Office of Budget and Management, City Comptroller's Office, and government and delegate agencies.
• Assists in designing and implementing computerized accounting systems and internal controls.
• Processes and reviews invoice payments and purchase orders for various parties (e.g., refunds and payment voids, accounts payables issues, status of purchase orders and payment vouchers).
• Calculates and prepares grant/project revenue collection reimbursement.
• Reviews grant/project applications and awards.
• Examines sub-grant agreements for any fiscal related requirements.
• Reviews departmental requests for appropriating funds, authorizing grant/project obligations, monitoring and reporting grant/project expenditures, recording receivables and collections and closing out grant/project awards.
• Capital Program Management (CPM): Ability to generate new funding requests and CPR-1 submissions, establish links between FMPS and CPM, and accurately select funds, cost centers, appropriations, and project numbers. Proficiency in managing capital construction projects and fixed assets, ensuring effective tracking and oversight.
• Coordinates and submits final close-out reports to various grantors.
• Maintains and reports in-kind awards and expenditures incurred by the sub-grantees.

Job description

Number of Positions: 1

Starting Salary: $90,144

This position is open to the public and all current City employees covered under the City’s collective bargaining agreement with AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES (AFSCME) – BARGAINING UNIT 1, 3, 4 & 5. Only employees in City job titles in this bargaining unit are eligible to bid.

• Check the box on your profile titled “Currently employed by the City of Chicago”
• Enter your employee ID (located on your pay stub labeled ‘payee/employee number’)
• Select your correct bargaining unit

LEAD ACCOUNTANT

DEPARTMENT OF WATER MANAGEMENT

{Administration / Finance}

Number of Positions: 1

(Additional Vacancies Possible Pending Budget Approval)

Starting Salary: $90,144

This position is open to the public and all current City employees covered under the City’s collective bargaining agreement with AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES (AFSCME) – BARGAINING UNIT 1, 3, 4 & 5. Only employees in City job titles in this bargaining unit are eligible to bid.

• Check the box on your profile titled “Currently employed by the City of Chicago”
• Enter your employee ID (located on your pay stub labeled ‘payee/employee number’)
• Select your correct bargaining unit

Under general supervision, performs professional accounting work of the most complex nature, typically requiring the application of advanced accounting knowledge, and/or functions as a working supervisor over a small accounting staff while maintaining own accounts, and performs related duties as required

Essential Duties

• Performs and supervises the work of professional accountants engaged in the management of financial accounts.
• Develops and accesses new or existing computer applications or spreadsheets and records, verifies, and analyzes journal entries for assigned accounts and those managed by subordinates.
• Develops work standards and conducts staff performance evaluations
• Conducts audits of financial documents (e.g., internal accounting records performed by private audit firms) and reviews those conducted by subordinates to ensure entries are accurate, appropriately allocated to accounts, and comply with contract and funding guidelines, and documents errors and reconciles accounts, as required.
• Monitors the balances of assigned accounts and those of subordinates and adjusts spending levels and fund re-allocations to ensure the availability of funds to cover expenditures.
• Prepares various reports (e.g., program and operating budgets with tiered funding structures, financial statements, balance sheets, financial reports) of a complex nature and reviews those prepared by subordinates.
• Coordinates the analyses of historical records and anticipated economic trends and forecasts future expenses and revenues.
• Coordinates the compilation of complex financial schedules and reports.
• Interprets general accounting principles and financial procedures to management.
• Trains staff on accounting procedures
• Functions as a liaison on accounting-related issues to the Office of Budget and Management, City Comptroller's Office, and government and delegate agencies.
• Assists in designing and implementing computerized accounting systems and internal controls.
• Processes and reviews invoice payments and purchase orders for various parties (e.g., refunds and payment voids, accounts payables issues, status of purchase orders and payment vouchers).
• Calculates and prepares grant/project revenue collection reimbursement.
• Reviews grant/project applications and awards.
• Examines sub-grant agreements for any fiscal related requirements.
• Reviews departmental requests for appropriating funds, authorizing grant/project obligations, monitoring and reporting grant/project expenditures, recording receivables and collections and closing out grant/project awards.
• Capital Program Management (CPM): Ability to generate new funding requests and CPR-1 submissions, establish links between FMPS and CPM, and accurately select funds, cost centers, appropriations, and project numbers. Proficiency in managing capital construction projects and fixed assets, ensuring effective tracking and oversight.
• Coordinates and submits final close-out reports to various grantors.
• Maintains and reports in-kind awards and expenditures incurred by the sub-grantees.

Address

Additional duties may be required for this position

1000 E. Ohio St. Chicago IL 60611

Hours

8:30 am to 4:30pm / Monday-Friday

THIS POSITION IS IN THE CAREER SERVICE

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting plus three (3) years of professional accounting experience.

Should the above criteria not be fulfilled, the following options are acceptable:

• Graduation