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San Juan Water District Seeks a Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant is part of the Finance team, reporting to the Director of Finance, responsible for planning, administering, and performing a variety of complex professional accounting, fiscal, budgetary and administrative functions.  Duties include:

• Maintaining and reconciling a variety of ledgers and accounts; researching and analyzing accounting transactions; posting, balancing and reconciling the general ledger and subsidiary accounts.
• Planning, prioritizing and reviewing the work of staff assigned to a variety of technical and clerical accounting duties.
• Preparing and/or reviewing a variety of bank reconciliations, claims, reports and schedules for accuracy and completion.
• Assisting with annual budget development and implementation including personnel budget; monitoring budgets for divisions and/or departments; researching and analyzing transactions to resolve coding problems.
• Preparing and/or reviewing a variety of complex financial reports in conformance with internal and external reporting requirements.
• Coordinating and leading the accounting for the District’s capital assets ensuring compliance with District policy and government reporting requirements; analyzing projects for construction in progress and capitalizing additions once placed in service; working with departments to identify additions and retirements; reconciling capital assets and accumulated depreciation to general ledger to ensure records are balanced properly.
• Coordinating grants and related audits by monitoring, reporting and maintaining grant budgets, activities and expenditures, grant compliance documents and records; assisting with financial compliance issues.
• Researching and implementing new government accounting and financial reporting requirements and making recommendations for changes in policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Under the direction of the Director of Finance, leading the design, testing and implementation of new technology systems and processes.
• Under the direction of the Director of Finance, leading the coordination of the annual audit and the preparation of the annual financial reports.

The qualifications include:

Education: Equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in accounting, business administration or closely related field.

Experience: Three years of increasingly responsible experience performing professional level accounting, payroll, financial reporting, cash management and utility billing.

The salary range is $49.04 - $58.84 per hour plus generous retirement and health benefits. The recruitment is open until filled. 

For a detailed description of the position, go to: https://www.sjwd.org/