What are the responsibilities and job description for the ACCOUNTANT II position at Riviera Utilities?
ACCOUNTANT II
RIVIERA UTILITIES
From: Tom DeBell, General Manager
Date: April 24, 2023
Re: Open Job Position – Accountant II
Beginning Monday, April 24, 2023, Riviera Utilities will begin taking applications to fill a job vacancy for Accountant II. The qualifications for this position are:
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university in Accounting or a related field or three (3) years of experience in an accounting environment; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Special Qualifications:
Possession of or ability to obtain a valid Driver’s License within 60 days of employment.
Applications accepted for this open position through Friday, May 5, 2023. Interested individuals should go to our website at www.rivierautilities.com to review the Job Description for this opening, click on the Application link, complete the application, and submit it by the deadline.
In Compliance with the Alabama Immigration Law, Riviera Utilities participates in the Federal E-Verify Identification Program.
Salary Range: $43,397 - $69,435 Pay Grade 630
Department: Administration - Accounting
Pay Grade: 630
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Reports to: Lead Accountant/Chief Financial Officer
Effective Date: July 30, 2018
JOB SUMMARY
This position performs tasks that support the core processes of the department which include properly measuring obligations to employees, creditors, and others and paying them in a timely manner, properly recording revenue and monitoring the acquisition, collection, and safeguarding of assets, and developing and reporting financial and other pertinent information in an accurate, timely, and effective manner to the appropriate users of that information. This employee may instruct, mentor and review the work of Accountants I’s. Reports to the Lead Accountant/Chief Financial Officer.
JOB FUNCTIONS
Essential Functions:
- Verifies the posting of details of daily business transactions to proper departments and accounts in subsidiary journals or computer files or departmental general ledgers from computer generated operational accounting transactions and records.
- Maintains, reconciles, and balances subsidiary accounts and ledgers to general ledger accounts on an as needed basis.
- Reconciles financial aid accounts as payments are received throughout the month.
- Produces schedules to estimate monthly interest accrual on investments as interest is paid out, evaluating and adjusting any fluctuations, as needed.
- Reconciles bank statements, investigates and resolves discrepancies.
- Accrues tax equivalents for one or more utilities, based upon the monthly revenue or arrangements between RU and the jurisdictions served.
- Enters data into financial programs using computer interfaces.
- Prepares state and federal regulatory agency reports and remittances, including EIA, IRS, SSA, state, county and city tax and statistical reports.
- Reviews items sold to confirm that correct charge codes were used at the creation of the miscellaneous invoices, calculates sales tax, and pays the sales taxes online via the state’s website.
- Reviews, capitalizes, and financially closes Gas work orders, created for every maintenance and capital job.
- Reviews and verifies biweekly time sheets.
- Prepares and generates timely payroll transactions and payments.
- Prepares cash reports and cash charts for the CFO, General Manager, and the Utility Board as a way to quickly see account balances, total operating funds, construction funds, as well as reserve and investment funds.
- Verifies requests for payments to vendors from company purchasers, reviews supporting authorizations and documentation, verifies correctness and accuracy of accounts charged, resolves inaccuracies or insufficiencies, and generates timely payments.
Other Functions:
- Calculates depreciation, accruals, and departmental allocations of common expenses.
- Prepares and posts adjusting journal entries in the monthly financial statement preparation process.
- Monitors miscellaneous invoices for status in payment.
- Verifies accuracy of one or more departmental general ledgers and generates related financial statements and statistical reports monthly.
- Reviews financial statements for accuracy and correctness and reports on statistical variations or developing trends to Lead Accountant.
- Participates in the annual external audit by preparing schedules and reports for auditors or working with, or serving as, liaison or coordinator between audit field personnel and Riviera staff.
- Prepares annual surveys for all departments, DOT, EIA, and APPA, regarding individual utility practices.
- Performs administrative tasks necessary for the function of the Financial Services Department.
- Performs special tasks and/or produces special reports at the request of the Chief Financial Officer or Lead Staff Accountant.
- Instructs, mentors, and reviews the work of Accountant I’s to assist them in completing their work, checks for errors, answers questions, and provides needed training.
- Performs other related duties as required/assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university in Accounting or a related field or three (3) years of experience in an accounting environment; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Special Qualifications:
Possession of or ability to obtain a valid Driver’s License within 60 days of employment.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of double entry accounting processes and current generally accepted principles of accounting, including the appropriateness of accruals, deferrals, depreciation, estimates, and allocations.
- Knowledge of the structure of financial statements, their associated accounts, and their interrelationships including the elements of balance sheets, statements of revenues, expenses and net assets, and cash flows.
- Knowledge of Riviera Utilities’ overall operation and mission and the role of the Financial Services Department in it.
- Knowledge of basic through intermediate mathematical, arithmetical and statistical principles.
- Skill in the use of current accounting and word processing programs, including Excel, Word, Adobe Acrobat, e-mail programs, online banking, internet reporting and uploading, and Cayenta or other operating systems used in the PC and AS/400 environment.
- Skill in typing and data entry.
- Ability to listen, understand, analyze, and interpret oral and written instructions.
- Ability to produce oral or written reports, including tables, charts, and diagrams, as necessary for the performance of essential duties of the various accountant levels.
- Ability to effectively and professionally communicate with other employees, supervisors, and service providers.
- Ability to maintain and monitor multiple task lists and produce deliverables timely.
- Ability to explain applicable financial or statistical results to departmental operational and management personnel.
- Ability to work effectively, pleasantly, and empathetically as a member of a team.
- Ability to coordinate work schedules and required deliverables with other team members.
- Ability to design effective methods to accomplish novel tasks based on required results.
- Ability to demonstrate initiative at each operating level and seek to improve skills through self-instruction or company provided training programs.
- Ability to adapt to new procedures or software with proper instruction.
- Ability to be professional in conduct and behavior and discreet in matters and information about Riviera, its employees and its business that is entrusted to the employee.
- Ability to have regular and predictable attendance at work.
- Ability to operate small office equipment, including copy machines or multi-line telephone systems.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Grasping: sufficient to apply pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Handling: sufficient to pick, hold, or otherwise work, primarily with the whole hand.
- Hearing: sufficient to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction; ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
- Mental Acuity: sufficient to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
- Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
- Speaking: sufficient to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
- Visual Acuity: sufficient to observe violations of codes, to effectively operate standard office equipment; ability to read and write reports, correspondence, instructions, drawings, etc.; and to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment, by both day and night.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment is primarily that of an office job and the noise and temperature levels are moderate. The job may require occasional visits to non-temperature controlled warehouses and outside areas.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.
Salary : $43,397 - $69,435
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