<p>Job Overview</p> <p>The CDBG-DR Grant Program Accountant is responsible for managing the financial, compliance, and reporting functions associated with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery (DR) funding. This position ensures that all expenditures, drawdowns, and financial activities comply with HUD regulations, federal Uniform Guidance, and local policies. The accountant maintains accurate grant financial records, prepares required reports, monitors budgets, and supports program staff and subrecipients in meeting financial and documentation requirements. The role plays a critical part in safeguarding grant funds, ensuring audit readiness, and supporting the successful delivery of CDBG-DR funded programs and projects.</p> <p>Starting Salary</p> <p>$68,286 - $88,774</p> <p>Benefits</p> <p>Click HERE to view our Benefits at a glance</p> <p>Core Competencies</p> <ul> <li>Customer Commitment - Proactively seeks to understand the needs of the customers and provide the highest standards of service. </li><li>Dedication to Professionalism and Integrity - Demonstrates and promotes fair, honest, professional, and ethical behaviors that establishes trust throughout the organization and with the public we serve. </li><li>Organizational Excellence - Takes ownership for excellence through one's personal effectiveness and dedication to the continuous improvement of our operations. </li><li>Success through Teamwork - Collaborates and builds partnerships through trust and the open exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives to achieve organizational goals. </li></ul> <p>Duties and Responsibilities</p> <p>Note: The following duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. Depending on assigned area of responsibility, incumbents in the position may perform one or more of the activities described below.</p> <ul> <li>Plans, organizes, directs, controls, and/or supervises assigned accounting and financial functions, programs, and systems as a department's lead fiscal position, or as the lead for a program/functional area within a large department, to include annual risk assessment and review and approval of fiscal transactions in the accounting system. </li><li>Follows countywide fiscal related policies and procedures. </li><li>Develops and implements internal departmental accounting procedures, evaluates effectiveness, and makes changes as necessary to ensure proper risk management strategies. </li><li>Manages accounting and budget functions within a department or a program/functional area. </li><li>Prepares complex journal entries; reconciliations of general ledger transactions to the applicable sub-ledger; processes and reconciles accounts receivable and payables; reconciles and submits billing information and resolves complex expenditure issues. Managing and processing CDBG invoices. </li><li>Reviews and approves routine accounting entries. </li><li>Prepares complex analyses and reports to support current and new operational initiatives; evaluates operating initiatives and environmental factors on costs of services; and assists with the development of operational efficiency measures. </li><li>Provides guidance and assistance to department staff on a broad variety of fiscal/budget topics. </li><li>Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and status reports for management, to include customized Business Intelligence (BI) reports, budget versus actual reports, projections, variance analysis, cost recovery reports, rate studies, and statistical information. </li><li>Performs financial analysis to include budget versus actual revenue variances and projections, environmental scan/trends for service delivery impact, revenue management and position control. </li><li>Monitors fiscal aspects of all grants and capital projects to include set-up, creation of task structure, projections and cash flows, reimbursement requests, and internal and external reporting. </li><li>Participates and assists in local, state, federal, and annual financial audits. </li><li>Other related duties as assigned. </li></ul> <p>Job Specifications</p> <ul> <li>Knowledge of governmental accounting and auditing principles, practices, procedures, methods, and theory. </li><li>Knowledge of computerized accounting systems to include automated accounting system applications. </li><li>Knowledge of the specific accounting and reporting requirements and the complete accounting cycle of the organization to which assigned. </li><li>Ability to analyze and audit accounting, fiscal, payroll and leave data, reports, and statements. </li><li>Highly skilled in collaboration, communication, teamwork, analysis, customer service, and problem resolution. </li><li>Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously while meeting critical deadlines in a fast-paced environment. </li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in a diverse team with varying responsibilities. </li><li>Extensive experience in business process analysis, improvement, and documentation. </li><li>Ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with others within and outside own organization. </li><li>Ability to apply accounting knowledge to ERP systems, roles, and responsibilities, processes, workflows, and transactions. </li><li>Self-motivated; able to manage time to ensure completion of assigned tasks and/or projects. </li><li>Self-starter with the ability to work independently. </li><li>Identify a problem or issue, collect information or data on the issue and research it through. </li><li>Organize and sort data and findings, develop recommendation, implement solutions and monitor to ensure issues are fully resolved. </li><li>Identify critical factors which will affect the outcome of a decision, evaluate options accurately and establish priorities in order to support proposed solutions and communicate methodologies to management and end users. </li><li>Ability to communicate effectively with superiors, colleagues, and staff verbally and through writing skills. Must have the ability to communicate complex fiscal issues and proposed solutions to non-fiscal management leaders in supported departments. </li><li>Knowledge of business operations and procedures, demonstrate strategic thinking abilities, analytical mind with problem solving aptitude. </li><li>Help build strong teams within the organization and ensure projects, initiatives, or other work functions are performed successfully. </li><li>Ability to visualize, gather information, articulate, analyze, solve complex problems, and make decisions. </li></ul> <p>Physical Requirements</p> <ul> <li>Position is typically in an office environment. </li><li>Requires an employee to be mostly sedentary. </li></ul> <p>Work Category</p> <ul> <li>Sedentary work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met. </li></ul> <p>Minimum Qualifications Required</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field; AND </li><li>Three (3) years of experience with financial/fiscal transactional/process analysis, configuration, and/or process improvement experience in an ERP system; OR </li><li>An equivalent combination of education (not less than possession of a high school diploma/GED), training, and experience that would reasonably be expected to provide the job-related competencies noted above. </li></ul> <p>Emergency Management Responsibilities</p> <p>In the event of an emergency or disaster, an employee may be required to respond promptly to duties and responsibilities as assigned by the employee's department, the County's Office of Emergency Management, or County Administration. Such assignments may be for before, during or after the emergency/disaster.</p> <p>Additional Job Requirements</p> <p>A department, depending on the nature of its mission and operations, may require that employees in all or certain positions in this job classification:</p> <ul> <li>Maintain the ability to pass the background checks required for the position. These background checks may include but are not limited to: </li><li>Criminal History Background Check using Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) </li><li>Level 1 and Level 2 Background screening (Ch. 435 Florida Statutes) </li><li>Child Abuse, Abandonment and Neglect Record Check using the State Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) </li><li>Sex Offender and Sexual Predator record check using the list maintained by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) </li></ul> <ol start="2"> <li>Possess the necessary job-related license(s) or certification(s) that may include possession of a Florida Driver License (Class E). </li></ol>