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R3019 Accountant I

Yakima County • Yakima, WA • 2d ago

Classification: Accountant I

Job Req: R3019

Department: Auditor's Office

Hours/Week: 40

Union: N/A

Pay Range: $32.25 - $40.91 per hour (Non-Bargaining Pay Plan, C41 Step 1-13)

Hiring Range: $32.25-34.23 (Non-Bargaining Pay Plan, C41 Step 1-4 DOQ)

Open Date: 02/03/2026

Close Date: 02/17/2026

Overview:

There is one Accountant I opening with the Yakima County Auditor's Office. This payroll position performs professional level accounting activities and assists in developing policies and procedures to ensure compliance to federal and state statutes and regulations as it applies to the issuance processing of payroll.

Benefits included in position:

Health Care Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life and Basic LTD) Retirement Benefits Paid Vacation Paid Holidays

Washington Paid Sick Leave

Note: This is a Non-Bargaining unit position.

This recruitment may be used to fill future vacancies that occur within 90 days of the closing of this position. (This excludes Yakima County Sheriff's Office and Department of Corrections)

Responsibilities:

Essential Duties:

Responsible for performing all accounting activities necessary to process multiple payrolls by carrying out responsibilities for payroll preparation, processing, and operations for Yakima County.

Assists the Manager with ensuring the payroll function is in conformance with federal, state, and local law, codes, and guidelines. Supports in identifying payroll process improvements in operations, procedures, policies, and methods while leveraging industry best practices.

Collaborates with the financial division to analyze, audit, and reconcile the financial information in payroll liability accounts. Position is responsible for confirming the balancing of payroll liability accounts within a complex accounting system and resolving payroll discrepancies in collaboration with the Finance Division.

Processes and verifies advanced and complex quarterly and year-end payroll processing for government, monitoring the latest changes in legislation and regulations that impact the close of one year and the beginning of the next within established critical deadlines to avoid significantly harsh penalties.

Generate, processes, maintains and accurately transmits advanced and complex financial reports for Department of Retirement Systems (DRS), Teamster's Pension, Child Support (DSHS), Union Dues, employment taxes, state taxes, garnishments and levies, and other mandates within established critical deadlines to avoid significantly harsh penalties. May transmit complex financial correction reports as required and may respond to inquiries as requested.

Analyzes and evaluates complex financial information of payroll liability accounts and performs duties including balancing and controlling earnings and deduction totals, calculating and preparing general ledger entries, calculating, preparing payroll inputs, inspecting automated system output such as registers and standard to complex reports, determining and correcting out-of-balance conditions, preparing and filing tax reports, gathering payroll data, and researching and preparing special reports for management, calculating military and jury duty pay, and processes garnishments and levies.

Balances payroll journal lines, payroll registers, payroll deduction registers, ad-hoc payments and verifies accuracy and compliance of voluntary deductions, involuntary withholdings, employee taxes and employer paid benefits.

Develops division work stan

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