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• Performs professional accounting and budgetary duties involved in establishing, analyzing, reviewing, reconciling, monitoring, and maintaining financial records and reports; ensures financial integrity of assigned accounts.
• Prepares, analyzes, evaluates, and monitors a program, a division, or the department's budget, and other designated budgets; prepares income and expenditure projections for budget preparation; analyzes program and project costs; provides recommendations.
• Calculates, posts, and adjusts journal entries; updates accounts to reflect revenue and expenditures; audits accounts for errors and makes appropriate adjustments; coordinates and reconciles different computer financial systems; reconciles various financial statements to ensure accurate fund accounting; matches financial statements with cash amounts; initiates account transfers and other transactions as needed; utilizes manual and computerized recordkeeping systems.
• Prepares, reviews, and monitors grants, contracts, claims, and other financial agreements and proposals; prepares financial statements, balance sheets, income and expense reports, and cash flow analysis.
• Provides general accounting and budgetary consultation to departments, divisions, or programs; responds to inquiries, resolves issues and conflicts, and provides detailed and technical information concerning related standards, practices, pending legislation, laws, codes, regulations, polices, and procedures; attends and participates in various meetings, committees, and professional groups.
• Communicates with County staff and governmental agencies to exchange information, coordinate activities, resolve issues and concerns; prepares and submits mandated reports within established timeframes.
• Prepares or verifies a variety of routine to complex accounting, statistical, and narrative statements or reports, requiring analysis and interpretation of data.
• Reviews, analyzes, and documents a variety of accounts and transactions; reconciles general ledger, cash, and other designated accounting reports and statements with financial records; compares manual and automated records and transactions; identifies errors; verifies account balances; adjusts accounts; initiates transfers; and makes corrections.

• Methods, procedures, and terminology used in professional accounting
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Principles and practices of governmental accounting
• Applicable laws, codes, regulations, policies, and procedures
• Principles and practices of financial and statistical recordkeeping
• Principles and practices of financial statement preparation and comprehensive accounting reports
• Principles and practices of budget preparation, monitoring, and controlling
• Principles, practices, and techniques of financial analysis and forecasting
• Principles and practices of research and statistical evaluation

• Internal control policies and practices
• Principles and practices of leading others, including work planning, scheduling and reviewing
• Principles and practices of providing training, including coaching and feedback
• Related computer hardware and applicable software

• Perform professional accounting and budgetary work involved in preparing, analyzing, reconciling, and maintaining financial records and reports
• Prepare, analyze, and monitor funds, budgets, and accounts
• Reconcile internal financial reports
• Interpret, apply, and explain financial rules, regulations, policies, and procedures
• Maintain internal accounting systems and prepare internal accounting reports
• Analyze financial data and draw logical conclusions; prepare reports, forecasts, and recommendations
• Define accounting problems and recommend effective solutions
• Detect possible weaknesses in internal controls or standard accounting procedures
• Understand administrative policies and their impact on routine functions
• Perform complex mathematical calculations
• Meet schedules and timelines
• Operate standard office equipment, including a computer and associated software
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Provide excellent and courteous customer service and establish and maintain effective working relationships.

• Successfully complete a background check to include fingerprinting.
• Possess and maintain a valid California Class C driver's license or the ability to provide suitable transportation that is approved by the appointing authority.
• Be available to work a flexible schedule, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and during times of disaster and/or emergency.

• As a condition of employment, prospective employees may be required to submit to a background review which may include a review of information concerning present and/or prior employment, driving record, and record of any criminal convictions.
• Employment is contingent upon acceptable documentation verifying identity and authorization for employment in the U.S.; a list of acceptable documents is available on the USCIS Form I-9.
• If you are hired into this classification in a temporary position, your rate of pay will be hourly, and you will not be eligible for the benefits listed in the summary.

• A completed Monterey County Employment Application
• Response to the Supplemental Questions

Monterey County