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Accounting Services Coordinator

Location: 509 East Ave S., Clearwater

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am to 4:30 pm

***ONLY PINELLAS COUNTY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES MAY APPLY***

Performs professional accounting work in the development, implementation, and maintenance of financial accounting management systems to include processes and/or databases and more difficult accounting duties in financial and operational accounting management within assigned areas.
What Would You Do?

• Implements, monitors, and maintains policies and procedures, trend analysis, process review, financial statement analysis, procurement oversight, and regulatory requirements;
• Implements, monitors, and maintains a financial account and management information system, which may include computer, relational data bases for internal controls, data integrity, and the safeguarding of assets;
• Tracks and monitors activities between operating divisions to identify information processing needs, troubleshoots application problems, and produces statistical reports and graphs for management review;
• Participates in budget execution and preparation;
• Conducts internal accounting and system audits and prepares reports and submits recommendations for management review;
• Compiles data to produce end user, documentation, and application procedures manuals and trains staff;
• Develops accounting policies, procedures, and automation standards;
• Researches and recommends expenditures of departmental funds, monitors contracts and consultants, and administers contracts for payments to vendors;
• Provides guidance to senior managers on expenditures while monitoring cost centers for the overall budget and conducts ongoing analyses of expenditures;
• Arranges and attends meetings;
• Processes payroll and prepares and submits payments to the IRS;
• Creates accounts receivable invoices and processes cash receipts;
• May supervise accounting staff, conduct performance reviews, and recommend discipline when appropriate;
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

What Do you Need To Have?
Education and Experience:

Six (6) years of experience in progressively responsible professional accounting work covering a complex computerized accounting system that includes one (1) year of supervisory training or experience; or an Associate's degree in accounting, finance or a related field with course work in computer science and accounting plus four (4) years professional experience that includes one (1) year of supervisory training or experience; or a Bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field plus two (2) years of professional experience that includes one (1) year of supervisory training or experience; or a Master's degree in accounting or a related field plus one (1) year of professional experience that includes supervisory training or experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.

• Florida Driver's License or Florida Commercial Driver's License and endorsement, if any.
• Assignment to work a variety of work schedules including compulsory work periods in special, emergency, and/or disaster situations.
• Other knowledge, skills, abilities, and credentials required for a specific position.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of accounting principles and skill in implementing such knowledge;
• Knowledge of internal accounting controls;
• Knowledge of and skill in use of data processing and word processing computer software, including data collection, input, analysis, and dispersal;
• Knowledge of public administration principles and practices;
• Skill in applying basic computer applications;
• Ability to plan, assign, supervise, and evaluate the work of assigned personnel and establish and maintain effective working relationships with superiors, employees, and others;
• Ability to develop, update, and collate data for procedure and operation manuals;
• Ability to communicate technical information in a manner understandable to superiors, subordinates, and the interested public;
• Ability to produce reports from multiple software applications.

Want To Learn More?

Please review the full classification description with the Physical/Mental Demands, Working Conditions, and Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities at the below link.

Accounting Services Coordinator, C25