Senior Accountant
Town of Paradise Paradise, CA, USA
- Location: Paradise, CA, USA
- Categories: Accounting and Finance
- Job Type: Full Time
- Posted: Jan 15, 2026
Job Description:
Senior Accountant
Description
This position requires:
• Analyzing financial data and prepares a wide variety of financial reports and statements, including the Redevelopment Agency’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
• Analyzing and reconciles expenditures; researches and analyzes transactions to resolve problems; prepares monthly and year-end journal vouchers for a wide variety of financial programs.
• Coordinates and administers a wide variety of financial and accounting programs, including monitoring the property tax increment by project area and monitoring and reconciling loan programs.
• Preparation of audit schedules and reports for external auditors and assists the Finance Director during the annual auditing process.
• Preparing payment requisitions for debt service transfers, fees, and agreements; maintains historical data on debt service requirements; projects costs and property taxes.
• Processing and reconciles revenues, expenditures, and technical transactions in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and Town laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances.
• Receiving, reviewing, and processing various reports and records including payment authorizations, mainframe computer printouts, and fiscal agent bank statements, checks and receipts.
• Researching and analyzing technical transactions to resolve questions and validate data; ensures fiscal accountability and fund integrity for transactions and supporting documentation.
• A knowledge of modern principles, practices, and methods of public and governmental accounting and financing, including program budgeting and auditing and their application to municipal operations.
• A knowledge of public agency finance and account functions, payroll processes and techniques, employee benefits processes as they relate to payroll, and laws, rules, regulations, procedures, and office practices related to the processing and recording of payroll and financial transactions related to employee benefits.