Accountant

City of Clarksville • Clarksville, TN • 2d ago

GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB

This is the first of five levels in the accounting series. Incumbents compile, review, track, and correct financial data, and prepare routine financial reports. Responsibilities may include updating spreadsheets; reviewing data for errors and initiating corrections; compiling and entering data; processing payroll; completing month and year end closing processes; reconciling assigned ledgers, bank statements and/or reports; completing journal entries; and preparing and reviewing standard reports.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS POSITION WILL REMAIN OPEN THROUGH NOVEMBER 5, 2025, OR UNTIL FILLED.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

Compiles, processes, reviews, reconciles, and corrects financial data; resolves discrepancies.

Completes month and year end closing processes.

Performs professional budgeting and accounting analysis.

Prepares basic financial reports.

Identifies variances in financial data from one time to another, research reasons for variances and recommends solutions.

Prepares financial forecasts and basic financial reports.

Responds to questions regarding the financial information of assigned department or function.

Enters data into databases and related files.

Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

One (1) year of accounting experience.

An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the job's essential duties.

License and Certifications

None.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

Accounting principles, practices, and procedures.

Budget forecasting practices.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) principles.

Applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

Report preparation techniques.

Computers and related software applications.

Skill in:

Applying accounting principles and practices.

Reading, comprehending, and analyzing financial statements.

Preparing journal entries.

Monitoring and reviewing ledgers.

Organizing, evaluating, and presenting financial data.

Applying Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

Computers and related software applications.

Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.

Physical Requirements :

The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound.

Mental Acuity: Making rational decisionsthrough sound logic and deductive processes.

Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.

Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.

Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.

Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.

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