Description

Are you a proactive accounting professional? Highly-organized and meticulous in your work? If so, we want to meet you! Gloucester County is currently hiring an Accountant to manage fiscal controls and governmental accounting in the Finance Department, overseeing accounts payable, capital assets, and insurance programs while conducting complex reconciliations and annual depreciation calculations with independent judgment and initiative.

If you're seeking an excellent opportunity to advance your career while making a meaningful difference in the community, apply to join the Gloucester County team today!

$58,157.00 - $93,052.00/Annually + Robust Benefits Package

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/gloucester/jobs/5510646/accountant

Requirements

• Oversees accounts payable workflow, recognizes and relays procedural concerns or potential opportunities for improvement to Accounting Manager; reviews Accounting Technicians’ work and follows up with feedback; assists with unusual or complex problems and questions and determines appropriate solution; facilitates training of new Accounting Technicians.
• Oversees the County’s Liability, Volunteer, Public Officials, and Flood Insurance Programs; prepares annual policy renewal; manages and processes all claims; makes building, vehicle and inland marine schedule changes; secures Certificates of Insurance; develops charge back rates, and prepares and distributes allocations to appropriate departments. Independently prepares insurance schedules for annual audit.
• Manages the Capital Asset Program; researches expenditures for possible capital assets; determines category and classification of capital assets based on governmental accounting standards; assigns and distributes asset tags for placement; conducts routine inventory; and notifies insurance company of coverage necessary for capital assets.
• Manages capital assets databases; processes capital asset acquisitions, deletions, transfers, ensuring capital assets are fully reconciled from beginning fiscal balances to fiscal year end balances. Calculates capital asset depreciation for fiscal year-end audit; and generates periodic and year-end reports for the auditors.
• Reconciles the County and School payroll workpapers to the general ledger; balances payroll deductions, benefits, payroll taxes and totals by fund and posts the necessary journal entries in the automated financial system.
• For a more detailed list of duties, please visit the link above.