Accountant

$52,995 - $52,995/Yr

Camden City Attorneys Office - Camden, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Camden, NJ

About the position

The Accountant position at the Camden City Attorneys Office involves performing professional accounting work under the supervision of a Supervising Accountant or fiscal officer. The role focuses on maintaining and analyzing accounting records and reporting systems to support agency operations, conducting financial audits, and ensuring compliance with accounting and tax policies.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine professional accounting work including designing, maintaining, and analyzing accounting record and reporting systems.
• Conduct routine financial audits of documents and implement accounting functions, systems, policies, and plans.
• Conduct compliance audits to ensure transactions conform with accounting and tax policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Review internal accounting policies and procedures and recommend revisions.
• Prepare required financial statements and fiscal reports, including data compilation and analysis for monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
• Conduct routine investigative audits of books and examinations of financial records.
• Assist in preparing budget requests and statements of allocations and disbursements of budgeted funds.
• Conduct surveys to prepare recommendations for improvements and controls to enhance accounting system efficiency.
• Audit and record expense invoices routinely.
• Conduct operational audits and edit cost reports and other financial summaries and statements.
• Compile, analyze, and prepare various statements and reports for financial, budget, and personnel planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with twenty-one (21) semester hour credits in professional accounting courses.
• Four (4) years of professional accounting or auditing experience, including or supplemented by twenty-one (21) semester hour credits in professional accounting courses.
• Possession of a valid certificate as a Registered Municipal Accountant (RMA) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) issued by the New Jersey State Board of Certified Public Accountants, or as a Certified Municipal Finance Officer issued by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.