ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN

CITY OF KILLEEN POSITION DESCRIPTION

Accounting Technician

The employee will have the responsibility of:

• Reviewing all disbursement documents

• Entering, verifying, and ensuring proper payments to all City vendors in accordance with City policy and procedures; processing accounts payable checks (or EFTs) and distributing to vendors

• Assisting in issuing W-2's and maintaining files and records for 1099 filings at year-end in accordance with IRS regulations

• Calculating, preparing, and issuing invoices, account statements, and other financial statements (retiree health insurance premiums, hotel/motel taxes, grant receivable, etc.)

• Reviewing for delinquent accounts and coordinates collection efforts with outside collection agencies according to established procedures to include bankruptcies

• Processing payrolls to include working with supervisors for all departments to ensure employee times are approved; compiling and analyzing paychecks to ensure gross payroll calculations are correct before processing final checks to employees

• Calculating and entering all accrual payouts for terminated employees

• Updating all retirement contribution allocations with the proper vendor for correlating retirement plan accounts (457(b), IRA, Roth, etc.) following each payroll

• Processing all City utility and telephone bills to include forecasting and encumbering funds for the fiscal year, working with department to monitor budgets, and processing bills for payment

• Reconciling postage inventory account and prepares monthly journal entry to charge out postage

• Reconciling insufficient fund checks to include working with departments on collection efforts, preparing the journal entry for cash reversal and processing non-payments with Bell County

• Assisting with annual and interim audits

As an employee with the city of Killeen some benefits are:

• Health insurance from Blue Cross Blue Shield of TX

• Dental and Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Retirement through TMRS (Optional 4579(b) Accounts)

• Paid Vacation and Sick Leave

• 13 paid holidays

• Wellness Events & Free Gym Membership

Required Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Associate Degree in business or related field; and,

• Two (2) years of increasingly responsible related experience; or,

• Any equivalent combinations of education and experience

Special Requirements:

• Must have a valid Texas driver's license within ninety (90) days of hire

• Must have a valid driver's license by date-of-hire

• Must be bondable