Accountant 3

State of Nevada•Las Vegas, NV

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The State of Nevada, Division of Human Resource Management (DHRM) is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Accountant 3, in Las Vegas or Carson City, to join Central Payroll and serve as a key financial resource supporting the Central Payroll team. The Accountant 3 will function as a technical financial and accounting expert, providing direct support on complex statewide payroll matters, reconciliation activities, financial analysis, and fiscal reporting. The position plays a critical role in ensuring payroll-related financial activity is accurately recorded, properly reconciled, and effectively reported. This position requires strong initiative, the ability to thoroughly review existing workflows, and the skill to create, enhance, and implement effective financial processes and procedures. The successful candidate must demonstrate proactive leadership, a collaborative approach, and the ability to support peers and stakeholders through positive, solution focused interactions. The incumbent will work closely with Central Payroll staff, DHRM leadership, accounting and budget personnel, benefits staff, and other State agencies to research and resolve payroll-related financial issues and strengthen financial operations statewide. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in accounting, finance, or closely related field and two years of experience performing professional accounting work; OR Bachelor's degree in business administration and three years of experience performing professional accounting work; OR one year of experience as an Accountant II in Nevada State service.
Working knowledge of governmental accepted accounting principles; basis of accounting and measurement focus for all fund types and account groups, including governmental fund types, proprietary fund types, general long-term debt account group, and general fixed assets account group.

Nice To Haves

Ability to interpret and apply GASB pronouncements.

Responsibilities

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 direction, Accountant III’s perform the full range of duties described in the series concept at the advanced journey level.
Assignments include the development of financial statements and review of more complex funds and account groups as defined by size, reporting requirements, source of revenue and expenditure limitations.
Work is assigned through goals and objectives developed by incumbent’s supervisor, or incumbent is reviewed as goals and objectives are achieved and as unusual circumstances occur.
Accountant III’s are expected to supervise Accountant II, Accountant I, and Accountant Technician positions and may be the supervising accountant for all accounting activities in a department or division.