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This position is open until filled with a first review date scheduled for Monday, June 3rd.  

Priority will be given to candidates who submit their application 

on or before Sunday, June 2nd, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.  

The City of Auburn Finance Department *is looking for a talented accounting professional to join our team as an *Accounting Specialist - A/P & A/R. This position performs technical accounting and clerical work with a variety of calculating, posting, and record maintenance activities including, but not limited to, responsibility for accounts payable, accounts receivable, and general ledger accounting tasks.

OUR CITY The City of Auburn is home to over 80,000 residents and encompasses over 29.8 square miles of land, two rivers, and is part of two counties - King and Pierce.  The City operates as a Strong-Mayor form of Mayor-Council government, with a City Council of seven at-large members.

OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT The Finance Department consists of 25 employees total, with responsibilities ranging from operational accounting, to budgeting, to utility billing.  This position reports to the Financial Operating Manager.

In this role, you will:

• Maintain and reconcile components of financial records for assigned accounts, such as accounts payable, taxes payable, school impact fees, and utility bills.  This includes filing monthly excise tax returns, quarterly leasehold tax returns, and annual and biennial filing of unclaimed property tax reports.
• Perform annual audits and filing of Internal Revenue Service Forms 1099.  You will also monitor and maintain a separate checking account for the advanced travel fund.
• Direct processes for accounts payable transactions for the City, from purchase order generation to issuance of checks. You will work with departments to ensure accuracy and adequacy of supporting documentation for payments, updating and maintaining a procedural checklist as you go.
• Generate purchase orders (POs) for all City departments and audit them against invoices, checking for proper sales tax or applying use tax, and enter the invoices in to the Accounts Payable system for all City departments.
• *Direct the processes for accounts receivable transactions for the City, to include creating AR invoices to applying payments received.  *You will work with departments to ensure accuracy and adequacy of supporting documentation for invoices, updating and maintaining the procedural checklist as you go.

While these duties may be a primary focus of this job, the full job description includes a more comprehensive list of responsibilities.  CLICK HERE{rel="noopener" target="_blank"} to review the class specification.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Have a High School Diploma or equivalent

AND

• Have three (3) years of closely related work experience

OR

• Any combination of education, experience, and training that would indicate the ability to successfully complete the essential functions of the job.

We would love it if you...

Had college courses in accounting and computers

Have Working knowledge of accounting and computers

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