The Accounting Supervisor supervises and supports professional-level accounting functions and the preparation of reports, including the preparation of the annual budget, reporting on the budget to management, reviewing budget versus actuals reports, and maintaining the water database.
Job Description
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. 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 this position.
- Review and support staff during the preparation and compilation of the District’s annual budget
- Review quarterly budget vs. actual reports
- Review monthly reconciliations
- Review/record transactions, including the District’s allocation
- Communicate with other departments regarding the budget
- Review monthly budget/coding reports
- Identify budget-related training needs
- Assist with special accounting projects, as necessary
- Assist other departments with accounting data as needed
- Performance review alignment
- Job description review
- Maintain familiarity with strategic District levels of service
- Continuous improvement monitoring and innovation efforts
- Perform other duties as required
Required Experience:
- Four (4) to six (6) years of accounting or related experience
Desired Experience:
- Two (2) years of experience working with budgeting
- Supervisory experience
- Workday and Adaptive experience
Required Education/Certification/License:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- Valid Texas driver’s license
Desired Education/Certification/License:
- None
Success Factors/Job Competencies:
- Able to work as a team
- Detail oriented when reviewing the work of others
- Able to provide constructive feedback
- Able to accept and implement corrections
- Exercise discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Physical demands: While performing duties of job, employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hand to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk and hear. Employees must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee typically resides within an office or cubicle and may have occasional fieldwork that will expose the employee to weather conditions prevalent at the time.