The City of Temple City is searching for an Accountant to perform a variety of professional-level accounting and payroll duties. This role involves preparing, maintaining, analyzing, verifying, and reconciling financial transactions, statements, records, and reports. The Accountant will also handle general ledger accounting, budgeting, month-end, quarterly, and year-end entries and analysis, as well as special accounting projects.
A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in accounting, business, or public administration, including coursework in advanced accounting, auditing, and cost accounting, is required. Candidates must also have five years of progressively responsible experience in accounting, payroll, and financial work, including administrative and supervisory experience, preferably in local government. Qualifying experience may be substituted for the education requirement on the basis of two years’ experience for each year of college education required, (i.e. two years of qualifying experience for one year of college, four years of qualifying experience for two years of college, six years of qualifying experience for three years of college, or eight years of qualifying experience for four years of college).
Application, job description and benefits information can be found online at https://www.templecity.us.