Accountant II

Job Description

Accountant II | Salt Lake City Corporation

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Salt Lake City Corporation, located in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area. As a municipal government organization, the company provides essential services and infrastructure for its citizens. This Accountant role is crucial for ensuring the accurate and compliant management of public funds across various city departments, directly impacting operational efficiency and financial integrity. The incumbent performs general to highly complex professional accounting assignments that require a strong understanding of accounting principles and practices.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full time
• Location: In-person, Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
• Pay: $22–$39 hourly
• Team: Attorney Department
• Mission: To perform general to highly complex professional accounting assignments, ensuring accurate financial management and reporting across city functions.
• Tech Stack: MS Word, Excel, 10-key calculator

What You’ll Actually Do
• General Accounting: Perform general to highly complex professional accountant work assignments, including specialized or general analysis in various accounting functions like Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll, or Asset Management.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare balance sheets, make adjustments and closing entries, and develop annual financial reports, statements, inventory, receipts, and disbursements for management and outside agencies.
• System Improvement: Design and implement new formats, programs, or procedures, and revise existing ones, to enhance accounting, budgeting, and financial statement preparation processes.
• Audit & Billing: Conduct internal audits, prepare reports supporting budget requests, audit concessionaires and other contracted agencies, and initiate collection procedures on delinquencies.
• Cost Accounting: Compute and distribute labor, material, and overhead costs, and reconcile and analyze cost account ledgers.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in Accounting. This position may underfill at an Accountant I level, which requires an Associate’s degree in business management, accounting, or a related field.
• Experience: For Accountant II, two to four years of related work experience; for Accountant I, zero to three years of related work experience. Education and work experience may be substituted one for the other on a year-for-year basis.
• Skills: Ability to apply professional judgment in accounting techniques and principles, make accurate mathematical calculations, operate a 10-key calculator, and demonstrate proficiency with MS Word and Excel.
• Bonus: Knowledge of specific laws, ordinances, and regulations governing the City’s financial operations, experience in municipal accounting/auditing, and must be bondable at standard rates.