Accountant III (Exempt)

Navajo Tribal Utility Authority•Fort Defiance, AZ

About The Position

This position manages and establishes performance goals, allocates resources, and assesses policies for updates, ensuring compliance with established standards. It involves providing professional-level accounting knowledge to staff on technical problems, conflicts, or application processes. The role offers recommendations concerning operational, accounting, financial, and other management control systems to improve the application and process for accounting, budgeting, and the preparation of financial statements and reports. Responsibilities include managing periodic closing statements and various reports for management and executive personnel, providing training in financial record keeping and proper procedures, and monitoring financial activities such as fixed asset reconciliation, labor distribution, vouchers/accounts payable, general accounting, accounts receivable, budget administration, payroll, purchasing, inventory control, and contract payment systems. The role also involves recording financial transactions, reconciling accounts, maintaining ledgers, auditing and verifying account adjustments, examining claims for proper authorization and compliance, entering data into SAP, balancing accounts, completing special financial reports, maintaining and analyzing budgets, preparing written documents, providing technical assistance, controlling specialized accounts, checking accuracy of payments/receipts, overseeing journal entries, implementing and documenting accounting systems, participating in annual financial statements and audits, reviewing and evaluating financial functions, and providing input on new formats or procedures. The position also surveys operational procedures to ascertain customer accounting needs and recommends solutions, handles customer inquiries, and performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED Certificate.
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Public Administration or a related field or a combination of education & work experience.
1-3 years of experience in accounting, auditing, budgeting or closely related financial activity.
Experience using spreadsheets and databases is desired.
Valid Driver's License (subject to motor vehicle review).

Nice To Haves

Experience using spreadsheets and databases is desired.

Responsibilities

Manages and establishes performance goals, allocates resources and assesses policies for updates.
Ensures compliance with established standards.
Provides professional-level accounting knowledge to staff on technical problems, conflicts or application process.
Provides recommendations concerning operational, accounting, financial and other management control systems to improve application and process for accounting, budgeting and preparation of financial statements and reports.
Responsible for the periodic closing statements and various reports for management and executive personnel.
Provides training in financial record keeping, proper procedures for completing forms and required documents to submit for support.
Monitors financial activities including fixed asset reconciliation, labor distribution, vouchers/accounts payable, general accounting, accounts receivable, budget administration, payroll, purchasing, inventory control and contract payment system.
Records financial transactions for department of division and reconciles assigned accounts on a daily and/or monthly basis.
Maintains both general and special ledgers of expenditures.
Audits and verifies account adjustment.
Examines claims, checking for proper authorization and compliance with NTUA policies and procedures.
Enters data or information into SAP to produce reports, work papers spreadsheets, and to collect, calculate and reconcile information.
Balances assigned accounts both daily and monthly.
Completes special financial reports and performs various monthly financial closing activities.
Maintains and analyzes budgets, prepare periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
Prepares written documents such as statistical reports, memos, procedures, and letters.
Provides technical assistance to managers and supervisors in accounting and budget related matters as requested, assists with the department budget preparation.
Controls specialized accounts including but not limited to cash receipts, capital expenditures, or contract payments; and monitors expenditures against budget allocations or funds appropriated.
Checks for accuracy of payments or receipts, and other data including control encumbrance of accounts, requisitions, invoices or vouchers.
Oversees and ensure adjustments or corrections of journal entries.
Implements, modifies, and documents record keeping and accounting systems utilizing financial data systems software by recording transactions and inputting data, journal entries, and other adjustments into computerized SAP system.
Participates in the annual financial statements by preparing review schedules, trail balances, statements, adjusting/closing in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Assist in annual financial and single audit with external auditors.
Reviews and evaluates existing or new financial functions and recommend adjustments for enhancement or the financial information systems.
Provides input in the design and implementation of new formats or procedures, in area of assignment, to improve application and process for accounting, budgeting and the preparation of financial statements and reports.
Surveys operational procedures to ascertain customer accounting needs to recommend, develop, and maintain solutions to problems.
Handles customer inquiries and problems related to accounts; complies and compares information and performs calculations.
Performs other duties as assigned.