Senior Accountant

06/30/2025

Grade 23

Full time

Senior Accountants perform a variety of duties related to tracking complex or a high volume of financial information. These duties may include but are not limited to maintaining accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), banking, general ledger (GL), grant, and/or budgetary accounts, while ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)). In doing so, Senior Accountants may process payments, produce and/or review transaction reports, oversee inventory, and facilitate the contract review process. Work is performed in an office setting and may involve the direct supervision of others, including administrative staff and Accounting Assistants.

IF YOU APPLIED DURING THE FEBRUARY POSTING, YOU DO NOT NEED TO REAPPLY.

Agencies provide competitive pay and comprehensive benefits packages to include medical and dental insurance, employer-sponsored retirement plan (pension), generous paid holidays, sick and vacation leave, and more.

Applications for this position will be considered for the following Merit System employing agencies. The pay range for this job varies depending upon the Merit System employing agency.

Bessemer $50,148 – $77,792
Birmingham $51,729 – $80,225
Health Department $57,449 – $89,128
Irondale $60,340 – $93,600
Jefferson County $56,347 – $87,401
Mountain Brook $63,960 – $99,236
Tarrant $45,052 – $69,888
Vestavia Hills $59,508 – $92,310

• At least a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage).
• Experience using Excel (e.g., formatting spreadsheets using formulas and logic).
• Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.

• Experience as an Accountant in the Merit System.
• Experience using professional accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, Great Plains, Sage).
• Experience using Excel including higher level functions (e.g., graphs, pivot tables, importing/exporting data, lookups, match).
• Experience with general ledger reconciliations in a government/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing journal entries (e.g., debits/credits) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.
• Experience preparing financial statements or reports (e.g., balance sheets, income statements) in a governmental/non-profit, corporate, or public accounting setting.

• Supervises the AP process and/or processes AP requests.
• Supervises the AR process and/or processes AR payments.
• Maintains banking records to ensure online information is accurate.
• Prepares, monitors, and administers departmental or organizational budget by reviewing spending trends, expenditure reports, analyzing financial data and ensuring expenditures are within annual budgetary limits.
• Performs the financial closing process at the end of an accounting period (i.e., monthly, quarterly, yearly).
• Maintains the GL by creating journal entries and GL adjustments, reviewing and approving subordinate’s journal entries, and reconciling the GL to other financial records.
• Oversees grant funds, including maintaining communication with subcontractors, maintaining grant financial records, and producing grant reports.
• Procures and/or manages inventory (i.e., supplies and equipment) to ensure the products and services are available to meet the operational needs of each department.
• Generates invoices and/or processes payments.
• Facilitates the new contract approval process and enters contract parameters into accounting software once approved.
• Processes payroll by maintaining a database of employees and/or retirees, reconciling payroll information, processing payments to vendors or government entities, and maintaining and filing applicable taxes.
• Engages in activities designed to ensure professional development, awareness of developments in the field, and knowledge of relevant practices, rules, laws, policies, and/or guidelines.
• Maintains and creates reports of confidential governmental financial records, ensuring compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and laws (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)).
• Supervises staff by assigning and distributing work, directing staff in their job duties, monitoring progress of work, providing feedback and/or training.

Job is primarily sedentary involving sitting for long periods of time, but may involve occasional walking or standing for brief periods.

Work is conducted almost exclusively indoors in an office setting. Work involves use of standard office equipment, such as computer, phone, copier, etc.