Salary : $54,017.60 – $81,702.40 Annually
Location : Fort Myers, FL
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Number: 23-860
Department: Housing & Real Estate
Opening Date: 10/13/2023
Closing Date: Continuous
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Description
The City of Fort Myers strives to be an employer of choice and most of our employees turn jobs into long term careers. The salary shown in the job description is the full range for this position from entry to later career.
NEW EMPLOYEES ARE HIRED AT, OR NEAR THE ENTRY POINT SHOWN, DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE.
FLSA Status: Non-ExemptSafety Sensitive: NO Level II Screening: NO
Under the general direction of the Housing Manager, the Accounting Supervisor will oversee and coordinate the daily accounting operations of the department. Responsible for planning, organizing, and managing the grant function in Financial Services. Provides strategic day to day leadership in the grant accounting area to include grants management, procurement, account reconciliations and fiscal monitoring. The incumbent will oversee and maintain grant revenues and expenditures, implement revenue controls, and ensure timeliness and accuracy of grant reimbursement requests and financial reports.
Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the City’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include planning, assigning, and directing work, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Responsibilities and Reporting During an Emergency Situation:
Essential Employees may be required to work during a declared emergency. Depending on the nature of the emergency, this may require working around the clock for several days on short notice.
Non- Essential Employees will not be required to work during a declared emergency. The employee’s Department Head will determine when the employee will be required to work.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Assist in preparation of annual budgets; determine needs/costs and maximization of department resources.
- Responsible for reconciliation and reporting of federal, state, and local grant programs, including, Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), State Housing Initiative Partnership (SHIP), and Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF).
- Responsible for report and statement preparation detailing the financial stats of federal, state and local grant funds.
- Responsible for the monitoring and approving the financial process and reporting of the department.
- Ensure compliance with applicable policies and procedures of grants.
- Provide external auditors with information pertaining to grant programs.
- Assist in the preparation of federal, state and local grant plans and reports.
- Prepare and review monthly journal entries.
- Review and approve all monthly draws.
- Review grant funds and accounts for accuracy and security of accounting information.
- Review and approve monthly schedules, reports and journal entries prepared by staff
- This position requires regular and reliable attendance and the employee’s physical presence at the workplace.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Knowledge of city, federal and state laws, rules and regulations governing accounting and finance practices.
- Knowledge of governmental auditing, finance and accounting methods, practices and procedures.
- Proficient in the use of word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software.
- Skilled to speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations.
- Skilled to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
- Ability to operate necessary equipment, including personal computer, calculator, printer, copier, facsimile, and other standard office equipment
Minimum Requirements
- Associate degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting or related field, and three years’ experience in customer service and or grant accounting or related work. Experience can be substituted for a degree on a year-for-year basis.
Minimum Requirements
This work typically requires the following physical activities to be performed.
- Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
- Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
- Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
- Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
- Standing – for sustained periods of time.
- Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
- Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word
- Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
- Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
- Fingering – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
- Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
- Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
- Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
- Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
- Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
- Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
- Visual Acuity 1 – prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
- Visual Acuity 2 – color, depth perception, field of vision.
- Visual Acuity 3 – determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
- Walking – on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.
Work performed is primarily:
- Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Works in an office environment and sits for long periods of time.
- Contact with internal and external customers, outside agencies and the general public.
- May be required to work hours other than the regular schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.
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Please note: Benefits do not apply to On-Call, Temporary or Seasonal positions. Benefits only apply to regular Full-time positions and Part-time positions that are regularly scheduled to work 40 hours or more bi-weekly.
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Do you possess an Associate degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting or related field AND three years’ experience in customer service and or grant accounting or related work; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities?
- Yes
- No
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If the answer is Yes to question #1, please explain. If you answered “No” please enter “n/a”.
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