Assessor Business/Personal Property Manager

Saline County • Benton, AR

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About The Position

This position oversees daily administrative operations as well as being responsible for identification and assessment of Business Personal property. Ensures compliance with assessment laws, coordinates public interaction within the office, maintains accurate records focusing on process efficiency and data integrity and handles complaints tactfully. This position must possess a strong understanding of the assessor’s office operations and property tax laws, excellent leadership abilities, communication skills both written and /oral, ability to research, organize and solve problems and a high level of confidentiality and discretion.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED with knowledge of a specialized field (however acquired), such as basic accounting, computer, etc. Equivalent of four years in high school, plus night, trade extension, or correspondence school specialized training, equal to two years of college, plus 4 years related experience and/or training, and 3 years related management experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and policy/procedure manuals; ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Basic business math skills.
• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal, logical or scientific symbolism such as formulas, scientific equations, and graphs. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• AACD Personal Property Level 1; IAAO Level 2 required
• Apprentice Information Systems Software
• Excel
• EDGE Software-basic
• FI System

Nice To Haves

• Level 4 IAAO

Responsibilities

• Ensures the mailing of business assessment worksheets on an annual basis or as needed by customer.
• Reviews worksheets to check for accuracy of reporting.
• Select appropriate method of assessment based on acquisition price, market value or square footage of floor space.
• Compute assessed value based on method used.
• Notify owners of any needed changes in the report of property values.
• Contact businesses that have not assessed to initiate assessment purposes.
• Supervise the calculation of value from worksheets and input into computer.
• Defends property values before the Equalization Board for appeal assessments.
• Performs weekly reports to avoid data input errors.
• Maintains airplane inventory of local airport for assessment purposes.
• Complies with all ACD statutes required for business assessments.
• Extensive customer contact including both verbal and written correspondence.
• Work front counter (personal property) as needed.
• Enter invoices into the FI System for payment.
• All other jobs assigned by supervisor.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

Benefits

• paid holidays off
• Group health, dental and life insurance is paid by the County for the employee’s coverage.
• For employee retirement, the County contributes 15.32% per pay period of the employee’s gross towards the employee’s retirement through the Arkansas Public Employees’ Retirement System.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED