Accounting Supervisor (Port Everglades)

* Oversee the maintenance of the general ledger for all agency funds, programs, projects, and activities, including monthly account reconciliations, review of account balances, investigation of variances, and resolution of discrepancies.
* Supervise the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing processes, ensuring that adjusting journal entries, accruals, prepayments, allocations, and other required transactions are properly reviewed, approved, and recorded within established deadlines.
* Review and monitor financial transactions and accounting records to ensure accuracy, completeness, proper supporting documentation, appropriate account coding, and compliance with internal controls.
* Supervise accounts payable functions, including invoice processing, vendor payments, and reconciliation of vendor statements.
* Supervise the accounting and reporting of capital assets, including acquisitions, disposals, depreciation, transfers, inventory records, and periodic reconciliation of capital asset schedules to the general ledger.
* Oversee grant and program accounting, including grant billing, expenditure tracking, reimbursement requests and collections, revenue recognition, grant reconciliations, and financial reporting in accordance with applicable grant requirements.
* Review and oversee required tax and regulatory filings, including applicable sales tax, water tax, payroll-related filings, and other statutory reports, ensuring timely and accurate submission.
* Support external and internal audits, including preparation of audit schedules, reconciliations, supporting documentation, responses to audit inquiries, and implementation of approved corrective actions.
* Maintain and strengthen internal accounting controls, identifying control weaknesses and recommending improvements to safeguard agency assets, ensure reliable financial reporting, and promote operational efficiency.
* Supervise, train, and evaluate accounting staff, assign work, establish priorities, review completed work, provide technical guidance, and promote consistent application of accounting policies and procedures.
* Utilize the agency's financial management and accounting systems to review transactions, generate reports, monitor financial activity, and ensure the integrity of accounting data.
* Coordinate with other agency departments and external parties regarding accounting matters, financial documentation, billing, payments, grants, contracts, audits, and other financial activities.
* Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes and financial reporting, including automation, reconciliation procedures, workflow improvements, and data accuracy.
* Maintain confidentiality and security of financial information and ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, agency policies, and records-management requirements.
* Perform related duties and special projects assigned by management.

• Business Insight:
  Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. Clearly understands how own activities relate to critical business drivers. Monitors business news and market changes for impact on the business or on own expertise area; uses this to shape decisions.
• Financial Acumen:
  Interprets and applies key financial indicators to make better business decisions. Fosters accountability for making good financial decisions; provides guidance to help the team make astute decisions. Summarizes financial performance data and explains implications for the organization.
• Manages Complexity:
  Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. Asks questions to encourage others to think differently and enrich their analyses of complex situations. Accurately defines the key elements of complex, ambiguous situations.
• Plans and Aligns:
  Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. Strengthens alignment and coordination between own work and others', providing well-sequenced activities and exact time frames. Foresees and resolves many potential bottlenecks and delays.
• Optimizes Work Processes:
  Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. Uses metrics and benchmarks to monitor accuracy and quality. Takes steps to make methods productive and efficient. Promptly and effectively addresses process breakdowns.
• Ensures Accountability:
  Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. Measures and tracks team's and own performance, and helps the team learn from success, failure, and feedback. Adheres to, and enforces, goals, policies, and procedures.
• Builds Effective Teams:
  Builds strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. Holds constructive dialogue with the team regularly; takes multiple perspectives into account when making decisions. Commits to and prioritizes the team's decisions in most situations; conveys team spirit.
• Communicates Effectively:
  Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Tailors communication content and style to the needs of others. Pays attention to others' input and perspectives, asks questions, and summarizes to confirm understanding.
• Nimble Learning:
  Learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. Relishes new or unusual problems; seeks others' input and experiments with own ideas. Easily learns the essence of difficult issues and concepts. Investigates and discusses own mistakes to learn from them.

Physical demands refer to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.

Performs light work that involves walking or standing most of the time and involves exerting up to 20 pounds of force on a regular and recurring basis, or skill, adeptness and speed in the use of fingers, hands or limbs on repetitive operation of electronic office machines within moderate tolerances or limits of accuracy.

Unavoidable hazards refer to the job conditions that may lead to injury or health hazards even though precautions have been taken.

None.

All Broward County employees strive to demonstrate the County's four core behavioral competencies.

• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Customer focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Instills trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Values differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

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