Accountant (ESQA)

Job Overview

The CDBG-DR Grant Program Accountant is responsible for managing the financial, compliance, and reporting functions associated with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery (DR) funding. This position ensures that all expenditures, drawdowns, and financial activities comply with HUD regulations, federal Uniform Guidance, and local policies. The accountant maintains accurate grant financial records, prepares required reports, monitors budgets, and supports program staff and subrecipients in meeting financial and documentation requirements. The role plays a critical part in safeguarding grant funds, ensuring audit readiness, and supporting the successful delivery of CDBG-DR funded programs and projects.

Starting Salary

$68,286 - $88,774

Benefits

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Core Competencies

• Customer Commitment - Proactively seeks to understand the needs of the customers and provide the highest standards of service.
• Dedication to Professionalism and Integrity - Demonstrates and promotes fair, honest, professional, and ethical behaviors that establishes trust throughout the organization and with the public we serve.
• Organizational Excellence - Takes ownership for excellence through one's personal effectiveness and dedication to the continuous improvement of our operations.
• Success through Teamwork - Collaborates and builds partnerships through trust and the open exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives to achieve organizational goals.

Duties and Responsibilities

Note: The following duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. Depending on assigned area of responsibility, incumbents in the position may perform one or more of the activities described below.

• Plans, organizes, directs, controls, and/or supervises assigned accounting and financial functions, programs, and systems as a department’s lead fiscal position, or as the lead for a program/functional area within a large department, to include annual risk assessment and review and approval of fiscal transactions in the accounting system.
• Follows countywide fiscal related policies and procedures. 
• Develops and implements internal departmental accounting procedures, evaluates effectiveness, and makes changes as necessary to ensure proper risk management strategies.
• Manages accounting and budget functions within a department or a program/functional area.
• Prepares complex journal entries; reconciliations of general ledger transactions to the applicable sub-ledger; processes and reconciles accounts receivable and payables; reconciles and submits billing information and resolves complex expenditure issues. Managing and processing CDBG invoices. 
• Reviews and approves routine accounting entries.
• Prepares complex analyses and reports to support current and new operational initiatives; evaluates operating initiatives and environmental factors on costs of services; and assists with the development of operational efficiency measures.
• Provides guidance and assistance to department staff on a broad variety of fiscal/budget topics.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and status reports for management, to include customized Business Intelligence (BI) reports, budget versus actual reports, projections, variance analysis, cost recovery reports, rate studies, and statistical information.
• Performs financial analysis to include budget versus actual revenue variances and projections, environmental scan/trends for service delivery impact, revenue management and position control.
• Monitors fiscal aspects of all grants and capital projects to include set-up, creation of task structure, projections and cash flows, reimbursement requests, and internal and external reporting.
• Participates and assists in local, state, federal, and annual financial audits.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

• Knowledge of governmental accounting and auditing principles, practices, procedures, methods, and theory.
• Knowledge of computerized accounting systems to include automated accounting system applications.
• Knowledge of the specific accounting and reporting requirements and the complete accounting cycle of the organization to which ass