Job Description Summary

Department - Treasurer's Office

Job Description

OPEN TO CURRENT PIMA COUNTY EMPLOYEES ONLY

Job Type: Classified

Job Classification: 5157 - Accounting Supervisor - Elected Officials

Salary Grade: 17

Pay Range

Hiring Range: $83,408 - $100,089 Annually 

Pay Range: $83,408 - $116,771 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.

Pima County's Treasurer's Office is currently seeking an Accounting Supervisor. In this role, you will supervise accountants and paraprofessional accounting staff and participate in professional accounting activities for an elected official’s office.

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.

• Oversees and participates in financial analysis and prepares interim financial statements and annual financial reports or maintains a centralized automated accounting system;

• Supervises and performs internal audits of departmental accounting operations, procedures and information;

• Coordinates and participates in single and annual financial statement audits conducted by outside auditors;

• Reviews, develops and recommends accounting and administrative controls, policies and procedures to improve efficiency, productivity and effectiveness;

• Analyzes various accounting professional guidelines and documents to ensure that the automated accounting system and operating procedures are in compliance;

• Interprets and communicates departmental procedures to ensure understanding and compliance;

• Establishes and maintains liaison relationships with financial and management personnel in other county departments and communicates financial issues which affect departments or individual funds;

• Evaluates the impact and feasibility of requested departmental changes to the automated accounting system and on county-wide operations;

• Coordinates changes to the automated accounting system with programming staff in the centralized Information Services Department;

• Develops and coordinates training courses for departmental users on the financial management system applications;

• Supervises, trains, and evaluates the performance of professional accounting staff;

• Establishes work priorities and assigns work to staff;

• Monitors the progress of assigned projects and re-evaluates and adjusts completion dates as necessary.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in accounting or a related field as defined by the department head at the time of recruitment AND three (3) years of professional accounting experience, which includes one year of supervisory or project lead experience.

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

OR:

Three (3) years of experience as a Finance Accountant-III or Finance Analyst-III with Pima County.

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 five (5) years experience in governmental accounting and financial research.

• Minimum three (3) years with Pima County as an Accountant III or closely-related position as determined by the department head at the time of recruitment.

• Minimum three (3) years of experience with handling debt service payments.

• Minimum two (2) years of calculating