Accountant 1

State of Nevada•Carson City, NV

2d•Onsite

About The Position

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 Accounting division. Under limited supervision, incumbents will perform the full range of duties described in the series concept, including internally generating data and external source material to timely review and correct payroll expense transactions (PREXP) in CoreNV for each pay period. They will provide project accounting backups for Federal Billing discrepancies, train and educate staff on proper coding for timecards, and check CoreNV for rejections with journal vouchers, correct, and submit for processing. 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), which may include balance sheets, statements of revenue, expenditures/expenses, and changes in fund equity/balances, and statements of cash flow. They also prepare various other financial reports for federal, private grant, or national repository purposes, and ad hoc reports for internal/external auditors, legislative bodies, and the public. The Accountant series requires a formal body of knowledge obtained through extensive post-secondary accounting education, understanding of GAAP and governmental financial reporting standards, and the ability to compile and analyze information for complex financial statements.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

Internally generate data and external source material to timely review and correct payroll expense transactions (PREXP) 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.
Check State CoreNV for rejections with journal vouchers, correct and submit for processing, audit and process departmental JVD’s.
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.
Prepare financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the standards of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB).
Prepare 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.
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.