Accounting Services Coordinator 

Location: 509 East Ave S., Clearwater

***ONLY PINELLAS COUNTY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES MAY APPLY***

Performs professional accounting work in the development, implementation, and maintenance of financial accounting management systems to include processes and/or databases and more difficult accounting duties in financial and operational accounting management within assigned areas. 

What Would You Do?

• Implements, monitors, and maintains policies and procedures, trend analysis, process review, financial statement analysis, procurement oversight, and regulatory requirements; 
• Implements, monitors, and maintains a financial account and management information system, which may include computer, relational data bases for internal controls, data integrity, and the safeguarding of assets; 
• Tracks and monitors activities between operating divisions to identify information processing needs, troubleshoots application problems, and produces statistical reports and graphs for management review; 
• Participates in budget execution and preparation; 
• Conducts internal accounting and system audits and prepares reports and submits recommendations for management review; 
• Compiles data to produce end user, documentation, and application procedures manuals and trains staff; 
• Develops accounting policies, procedures, and automation standards; 
• Researches and recommends expenditures of departmental funds, monitors contracts and consultants, and administers contracts for payments to vendors; 
• Provides guidance to senior managers on expenditures while monitoring cost centers for the overall budget and conducts ongoing analyses of expenditures; 
• Arranges and attends meetings; 
• Processes payroll and prepares and submits payments to the IRS; 
• Creates accounts receivable invoices and processes cash receipts; 
• May supervise accounting staff, conduct performance reviews, and recommend discipline when appropriate; 
• Performs other related job duties as assigned. 

What Do you Need To Have?

Education and Experience: 

Six (6) years of experience in progressively responsible professional accounting work covering a complex computerized accounting system that includes one (1) year of supervisory training or experience; or an Associate’s degree in accounting, finance or a related field with course work in computer science and accounting plus four (4) years professional experience that includes one (1) year of supervisory training or experience; or a Bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related field plus two (2) years of professional experience that includes one (1) year of supervisory training or experience; or a Master’s degree in accounting or a related field plus one (1) year of professional experience that includes supervisory training or experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.   

• Florida Driver’s License or Florida Commercial Driver’s License and endorsement, if any. 
• Assignment to work a variety of work schedules including compulsory work periods in special, emergency, and/or disaster situations. 
• Other knowledge, skills, abilities, and credentials required for a specific position. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

• Knowledge of accounting principles and skill in implementing such knowledge; 
• Knowledge of internal accounting controls; 
• Knowledge of and skill in use of data processing and word processing computer software, including data collection, input, analysis, and dispersal; 
• Knowledge of public administration principles and practices; 
• Skill in applying basic computer applications; 
• Ability to plan, assign, supervise, and evaluate the work of assigned personnel and establish and maintain effective working relationships with superiors, employees, and others; 
• Ability to develop, update, and collate data for procedure and operation manuals; 
• Ability to communicate technical information in a manner understandable to superiors, subordinates, and the interested public; 
• Ability to produce reports from multiple software applications. 

Want To Learn More?

Please review the full classification description with the Physical/Mental Demands, Working Conditions, and Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities at the below link. 

Accounting Services Coordinator, C25