Accountant II

Salary\: $57,642 - $86,450

Position Grade\: 212G

Department\: Multiple Departments

Job Type\: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1600

Location\: St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position are responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and reporting on the fiscal and financial control activities for a City division or department and the activities of professional Accountants and support staff.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Maintains financial and accounting systems for a specific program, agency or department; inputs data into computer system.

● Summarizes, analyzes and records all financial transactions; reconciles accounts.

● Maintains general ledger accuracy.

● Prepares financial reports, as requested.

● Processes financial information such as payroll, pensions, and contracts.

● Assists with preparation of budget including summarizing the operating budget by line-item detail and allocating budget to various departments.

● Calculates financial data such as depreciation estimates, fixed assets, interest charges and related.

● Reconciles accounts each month; reviews reports for balances and accuracy; makes corrections.

● Responds to audit findings and resolves problems related to a particular fiscal function.

● Communicates with other departments or agencies to request and distribute financial data.

● Coordinates special projects, as needed.

● May explain work processes and train others, such as new employees, in the same or similar job title.

● Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance and/or interpretation to others, such as coworkers and the public, on how to apply policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a computer, calculator and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as financial statements, technical operating manuals, balance reports, contracts, inventories, policies, and non-routine correspondence.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; may require the ability to perform mathematical operations involving basic algebra; ability to interpret descriptive statistics.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.

● Environmental Factors\: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.

● Physical Requirements\: Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling of objects weighing five (5) to ten (10) pounds, such as office supplies. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as processing information with a computer.