Senior Accountant - DIVISION OF FINANCE

Department: Accounting

Job ID: 13441

Pay: $2,116 per bi-weekly pay period; or $55,016 annually.

Work Schedule: 8am to 5pm; Monday to Friday. Remote work potential.

Sedgwick County offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes health coverages, paid leave, regular compensation reviews, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities. For more detailed information, please visit our benefits page at SCBenefits .

The Senior Accountant performs administrative and professional accounting work by working with the accounting team in preparing the ACFR, quarterly financial statements, and other financial documents as necessary. The Senior Accountant will also administer the County’s purchasing card program and provide excellent customer service to internal employees. The Senior Accountant will be the owner of the Vendor /Employee Master in SAP/ECC in terms of setting up/disabling/ and making changes to customer/vendor accounts. This process will entail a full audit and a positive verification call for any changes requested for a customer/vendor account.

Administrator/Analyst of Vendor/Employee Master Database

- Set up new vendors/employees and vendor updates within 24 hours of receiving paperwork

- Run monthly master vendor report and close vendors that have had no activity in the past 18 months

- Perform positive verification calls on all requested changes from vendors and employees within 24 hours

- Orchestrate vendor buyouts with Purchasing, Shoppers and Accountants Payable to ensure the transition from using one vendor to another runs smoothly

- Perform annual audits to verify no duplicate vendors exist, no employee-owned businesses are set up or other concerning issues are found

- Develop, maintain, and communicate Vendor Master policies and procedures county-wide

- Solely monitor Vendor Email inbox; answering vendor related questions within 24 hours

- Primary responsibility for detecting fraud when requests for vendor account changes are made

- Add and remove the Treasurer’s Alternate Payee information on tax delinquent vendor accounts in a fast manner as not to slow down Account Payable’s payment process

Administrator/Analyst of the County Purchase Card Process

- Review and approve or deny purchasing card limit increase requests

- Run monthly Purchasing Card master statements, evaluate information, and compile and send monthly report to CFO

- Enforce the Purchasing Card policy, including issuing warnings, suspending cards, or terminating card access for violations

- Train all card users on policies, procedures, and system use

- Work with individuals attempting to make approved purchases when the card use is flagged as potential fraud

- Enter Monthly Journal entries to reclass purchases to correct cost and fund centers on a timely basis

- Audit purchase card transactions

- Analyze purchasing process by questioning transactions and implanting corrective action

- Run and analyze the Monthly Level 3 Data, which is specific transaction detail for all p-card expenses

- Reconciling a monthly GL reconciliation

- Activate, de-activate, and make changes to cardholder accounts

- Provide internal customer service to cardholders

Assist the Principal Accountants in the preparation of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR)

- Prepare and analyze financial statements and audit work papers.

- Provide supporting schedules for all Journal entries and audit work papers.

- Make and understand all necessary closing entries.

- Assist in conducting the final review to look for errors before sending to the print shop.

- Back train with the Principal Accounts on the process of Filing the ACFR with EMMA.

- Assist with the distribution of the final ACFR booklet.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree from an Accredited College or University in Accounting or Finance. Experience may be substituted for education, with one year of experience for one year of education. One year of experience in an accounting or finance related field.

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