Job Description Summary

Department - Sheriff's Department

Job Description

Job Type: Classified

Job Classification: 5392 - Accountant III - Elected Officials

Salary Grade: 13

Pay Range

Hiring Range: $60,507 - $72,612 Annually 

Pay Range: $60,507 - $84,718 Annually 

Range Explanation:

• Hiring Range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.

• Pay Range is the entire compensation range for the position.

Performs professional financial accounting work within a financial division of an Elected Official’s office, requiring theoretical knowledge and understanding of the principles, practices and methods of professional accounting. The Accountant II classification differs from Accountant I due to the level of complexity of assigned projects.

Essential Functions:

As defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this classification may include any of the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics. This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents of this class. Work assignments may vary depending on the department’s need and will be communicated to the applicant or incumbent by the supervisor.

• Performs required accounting internal control activities, such as reconciling cash, ensuring data in the automated accounting system matches source documents, and balancing input against control and validation reports;

• Analyzes and reconciles discrepancies between data input, internal controls, and output reports;

• Creates adjusting or correcting accounting transaction documents to address discrepancies;

• Ensures data entered into the automated financial accounting system is processed, balanced, recorded, and reported accurately and in a timely manner;

• Analyzes and classifies transactions and items by researching source documents to determine the appropriate transaction code, item code, funding source, and record-keeping requirements;

• Ensures departmental compliance with Board of Supervisors policies and Administrative Procedures;

• Observes accounting processes and makes recommendations to the supervisor for procedural improvements and changes to report output;

• Assists in developing and maintaining internal controls;

• Reviews accounting reports for accuracy in revenues and expenditures and makes recommendations for necessary corrections;

• Bills, collects, accounts for, and manages a variety of debts;

• Assists in training and reviewing the work of accounting support personnel;

• May assist in testing financial system upgrades and reports;

• May prepare, project, and monitor departmental and grant budgets and prepare various reports for submission to private grantors, state, and federal governments.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in accounting, finance, economics, public or business administration or a closely related field as defined by the department head at the time of recruitment AND one year of professional experience in accounting, budgeting, auditing or accounting analysis, or financial management research.

OR:

One year with Pima County in an Accountant I, Financial Analyst I, or a closely related position as determined by the department head at the time of recruitment.

(Relevant experience and/or education from an accredited college or university may be substituted.)

Qualifying education and experience must be clearly documented in the "Education" and "Work Experience" sections of the application. Do not substitute a resume for your application or write "see resume" on your application. 

Preferred Qualifications: (Be specific in describing your experience in your application. Ensure the descriptions provided illustrate your competencies, specifically addressing the required and preferred qualifications.): 

• Minimum two (2) years experience using Microsoft Excel.

• Minimum two (2) years experience processing accounts payable.

• Experience writing and/or editing procedures.

Selection Procedure:
Pima County Human Resources Department reserves the right to admit to the selection process only those ca