ACCOUNTANT 1

The Department of Transportation, is currently recruiting for an Accountant 1 in Carson City. This recruitment will be used to fill a current vacancy in the following division: Accounting. Under limited supervision, incumbents, in addition to performing the full range of duties described in the series concept, will internally generate data and external source material to timely review and correct payroll expense transactions (PREXP) transactions in CoreNV for each pay period. Provide Project accounting needed backups upon demand for Federal Billing discrepancies. Train and educate staff on proper coding for timecards, including project-specific codes. They will check State CoreNV for rejections with journal vouchers, correct and submit for processing, audit and process departmental JVD's. They will provide overall support to divisions regarding accounting problems and management information systems, provide advice, consultation, direction, and training to agency staff to minimize errors and reduce the need for JVD's. Accountants are responsible for preparing financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the standards of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). General purpose financial statements may be audited and include balance sheets; statements of revenue, expenditures/expenses, and changes in fund equity/balances; and statements of cash flow. Financial statements are typically combined statements which present information by fund type, account group, and discretely presented component units. Fund types include general fund, special revenue funds, debt service funds, capital project funds, enterprise funds, internal service funds, and trust and agency funds. Accountants are also responsible for preparing various other financial reports which include reports for federal, private grant, or national repository purposes, and ad hoc reports for use by outside entities such as internal/external auditors, legislative bodies, and the public.

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in accounting; OR Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance or a related field and one year of experience preparing GAAP-based financial statements; periodic federal, State, or private grant fiscal reports and/or fiscal ad hoc reports used by internal and external entities; OR four years of experience in the accounting field, two years of which were at the Accountant Technician II level in Nevada State service performing the duties described above.

The Accountant series is distinguished from the Accountant Technician series in that Accountants are called upon to make decisions based upon a formal body of knowledge obtained through extensive post-secondary accounting education. Accountants must understand and regularly use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and must have knowledge of governmental financial reporting standards. They must be able to compile and analyze information needed to develop complex and specialized financial statements normally found in year-end audit statements of financial position which are distributed to the public. Establish and maintain accounting systems and procedures which provide necessary documentation and audit trails for fiscal transactions, classification of expenditures, current fund balances. Prepare and analyze working trial balances, identify, and correct errors, and prepare journal entries in order to prepare reliable and accurate balance sheets and statements of revenues, expenditures/expenses, and changes in fund equity/balances. Prepare balance sheets, income statements, and changes in fund balance statements from working trial balances to provide reliable and accurate financial information. Use internally generated data and external source material to prepare notes to financial statements with supporting workpapers, tying in all amounts to the basic financial statements. Establish internal accounting procedures for preparing financial statements and managing workflow to ensure compliance with governmental accounting statutes, regulations, policies, and principles. Provide overall support to agencies and divisions regarding accounting problems and management information systems; provide advice, consultation, direction, and training to agency staff; manage agency accounting functions by developing work plans, assigning work, establishing work performance standards and evaluating work performance. Analyze fiscal data to identify and correct errors; reconcile or supervise the reconciliation of trust accounts, general ledger accounts, bank statements, sub-ledger accounts and controller's reports. Schedule and coordinate audits with independent auditors; prepare supporting work papers and provide other assistance to auditors in periodic audits; review audit reports and write summaries of findings and recommendations; discuss audit findings with agency management and implement audit recommendations. Determine if leases are capital or operating and prepare amortization schedules. Review agency fixed asset listings and ensure that current year additions and disposals have been properly reported; reconcile fixed asset purchases to the accounting system and run depreciation schedules. May provide full supervision or work direction for professional, technical, or clerical staff. Perform related duties as assigned. Under general supervision, Accountant I's perform some or all of the professional level accounting duties described in the series concept. This is the entry level in the series and progression to the next higher level is not automatic.

General knowledge of:

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles including cost, managerial and fund accounting principles and practices; spreadsheet and word processing software; principles and practices of bookkeeping.

Ability to:

perform complex reconciliations to determine accuracy of account balances; read, understand, and interpret manuals, policies, procedures, statutes, and administrative codes and regulations; write/draft bill draft requests, contracts, policies, and procedures for complex financial processes.

RECRUITER CONTACT INFORMATION

Jon Terrazas at j.terrazas@admin.nv.gov