Description

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

Incumbents supervise lower-level employees in the collection of taxes and revenues and maintains department records. Responsibilities include evaluating information to determine compliance with laws, regulations, and standards; scheduling work hours; preparing daily accounting records; responding to customer inquiries and resolving discrepancies; creating and analyzing reports; maintaining department records including tax and billing records; identifying and resolving complex tax issues; and maintaining compliance with various license/permit laws and regulations. PLEASE NOTE: THIS POSITION WILL REMAIN OPEN THROUGH JUNE 5, 2024, OR UNTIL FILLED. STRONG CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUPERVISORY SKILLS ARE REQUIRED.

Example of Duties

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Essential Functions:

• Supervises staff to include prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; ensuring staff are trained; ensuring that employees follow policies and procedures; maintaining a healthy and safe working environment; and making hiring, termination, and disciplinary recommendations.
• Identifies and resolves complex issues related to billings for property taxes, in-lieu of taxes, Economic Impact Development Plans issued by the Industrial Development Board, tax sale process, tax relief program, business license, etc.; maintains crucial partnerships with attorneys, elected officials, state and local government employees, and members of boards and committees to accomplish goals and objectives; reviews and ensures accuracy of property tax information provided by the County Tax Assessor; verifies accuracy in property documentation.
• Oversees the collection of taxes from individuals and/or businesses according to prescribed laws and regulations; monitors and maintains adequate internal controls for revenue collections; prepares, maintains, and analyzes operational tax and revenue records and reports; maintains knowledge of tax code changes, and accounting procedures and theory to rigorously evaluate financial information.
• Prepares general ledger journal entries and specific financial information as related to the collection of City revenues to elected officials and the public; prepares and provides revenue information to the Chief Financial Officer for inclusion into the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR).
• Maintains and reconciles a variety of ledgers and accounts, including the general ledger; examines all accounting transactions to ensure accuracy; corrects financial records, as necessary.
• Completes accounting processes including applying GASB rules for revenue recognition. Prepares and provides financial information for auditors, as necessary.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.
• Performs other related work as required.

Typical Qualifications

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field.
• Two years of accounting experience.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the job's essential duties.

LICENSE AND CERTIFICATIONS

• None

Supplemental Information

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Supervisory principles
• Customer service principles and practices
• Applicable local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations.
• Accounting principles
• Modern office equipment.
• Applicable department policies and procedures.
• Computers and related software applications.

Skill in:

• Supervising and evaluating employees.
• Prioritizing and assigning work.
• Training subordinates on work methods.
• Ensuring operational compliance with applicable laws, policies, and procedures.
• Providing customer service.
• Performing accounting transactions.
• Creating and analyzing complex and routine reports.
• Operating modern office equipment.
• Using a computer and related software applications.
• Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisors, the public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to give and receive work direction.

Physical Requirements:

The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 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:

• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Hearing: Perceiving 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 sound.
• Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.