Equal Opportunity
Provider and Employer
Office of the First Selectwoman
Accounting Coordinator
Town of
Portland, CT (EOE)
35 hours per
week
Deadline: January 31, 2019
This
is a responsible accounting position that requires maintaining a complete set
of all financial ledgers for all funds. The
work requires good knowledge, skill and ability in municipal accounting. Works under the supervision of the Finance
Director.
Sample Duties:
- Maintains
general ledgers and subsidiary ledgers; prepares journal entries
(including interfunding), posts journal entries through the Town's
computer systems. Prepares monthly
trial balance.
- Maintains bank
accounts, moves money to investment accounts and deposits monies received
from all departments except tax collector’s; reconciles bank statements by
imputing data into a computerized financial management system.
- Reconciles
School Lunch Fund and Board of Education Grants Funds to Board of
Education records.
- Purchasing
agent for the majority of office supplies.
- Sets up users
on financial management system and monitors.
- Assists the Finance Director.
Qualifications: Associate’s degree in accounting,
plus 2 years of progressively responsible bookkeeping or accounting record
keeping experience involving the use of a computer (applications such as MS
Word and Excel), or an equivalent combination of education and qualifying
experience.
Workweek is 35
hours, flexible hours: work until 7PM Tuesday, off at noon on Friday; starting
salary $48,559; MEUI Clerical union position; full benefits package.
Send
application & resume to:
First Selectwoman’s
Office, P.O. Box 71, Portland, CT 06480-0071
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