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THE CURRENT VACANCY IS IN THE SHASTA COUNTY

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY

ADMINISTRATION BRANCH

ORAL EXAM IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR JULY 2024

SKILLS OR EXPERIENCES LISTED UNDER THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

STATEMENT MAY ALSO BE USED TO SCREEN APPLICATIONS

SEE SPECIAL REQUIREMENT SECTION REGARDING

POSSESSION OF A VALID DRIVERS LICENSE

RESPONSES TO SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS REQUIRED

FINAL FILING DATE: JULY 09, 2024 AT 5:00 PM

SALARY INFORMATION

$5,469 - $6,980 APPROXIMATE MONTHLY* / $31.55 - $40.27 APPROXIMATE HOURLY*

Please refer to the appropriate Bargaining Unit Memorandum of Understanding for potential future salary increases Please visit https://www.shastacounty.gov/personnel/page/labor-agreements-mous.

ABOUT SHASTA COUNTY

Shasta County offers all the amenities of the big city while retaining a comfortable small-town atmosphere. With its natural beauty, affordable housing, excellent educational system, abundance of recreational opportunities, and excellent quality of life, Shasta County is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

Health and Human Services Agency

The Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) partners with communities to protect and improve the health and well-being of Shasta County residents. Established in 2006, the HHSA is organized into four branches: Behavioral Health and Social Services, Public Health, Economic Mobility, with a centralized Administration Services. The HHSA promotes optimal health for all. The frail, the abused, the mentally ill and those without resources look to the HHSA for services and resources to meet their basic needs, and to protect their health and safety. This transformation improves efficiency, avoids unnecessary duplication of effort, encourages collaboration among programs and organizes the HHSAs services to be more responsive to the needs of the public.

Administrative Servicesincludes Contracts, Asset Management, Fiscal, Financial Audits and Control, Medical Billing, HHSA Planning and Community Relations and Education. Each of these groups support the branches to help them achieve their goals.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Under supervision, to perform difficult and complex professional accounting and auditing fiscal work; to prepare a variety of accounting statistical narrative reports; to review accounting methods and practices of County departments, special districts and other agencies; and to perform related work as required.

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS

A position in this class performs super-journey level accounting and fiscal work in a large operating department with a separate fiscal system and diverse and complex fiscal operations, and in the absence of technical accounting supervision. In the Auditor's Office a position in this class may be assigned to perform the most difficult general or cost accounting work and systems accounting duties and conduct the most complex fiscal and management audits characterized by multiple funding sources and contracts, large dollar programs and particular audit sensitivity. Incumbents may supervise a small unit of professional staff or act as team leaders.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of governmental accounting policies and procedures and will have experience interpreting Federal and State regulations. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have experience in fund accounting, cost allocation, governmental budgeting, participating in audits, preparing financial reports, and monitoring budgets. The ideal candidate is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, able to meet multiple, and competing deadlines, and is well-organized. The ideal candidate will also have experience working with complex spreadsheets, creating formulas, and using pivot tables. Additionally, the ideal candidate is team-centered, thinks creatively, develops new approaches to problems, and is results-orientated.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

Prepares a variety of periodic and special accounting and narrative reports of varying complexity for major special districts, the County, State and Federal agencies; assists in the preparation of large departmental and special district budgets by analyzing revenue by source, preparing financial, budgetary and other budget detail in cooperation with program staff, and preparing preliminary recommendations; reviews contracts, grants and transfers of funds for propriety and sufficiency, ensures that cost accounting system changes are made, and sets up appropriations; performs a variety of general and cost accounting work in a complex and separate fiscal system with diverse elements (e.g., inter-governmental service fund, major special districts and related budget units and funds); analyzes and investigates variances between actual and budgeted expenditures necessitating realignment of appropriations, encumbrances and/or payments to reflect proper cost accounting within budget constraints; analyzes and reconciles a variety of County, State and Federal accounting records which vary because of different grant and fiscal year periods, differences in payments and receipts and co-mingled funds; reconciles trust funds; reviews accounting systems and practices and institutes improvements; develops accounting systems or procedures as needed for control purposes, for monitoring and reporting costs on major capital improvement projects, and for cost accounting for grants; develops cost standards; conducts fiscal compliance audits characterized by multiple funding sources and controls large dollar programs and particular sensitivity; examines and audits accounting records, financial statements and other records; prepares working, financial statements and other records; analyzes, maintains and improves accounting systems and procedures; consults with department heads, government officials, business organizations and other interested parties on auditing and fiscal policy, practice and methods; may supervise a small unit of professional or technical staff or act in a lead capacity.

QUALIFICATIONS

Any combination of education and experience sufficient to directly demonstrate possession and application of the following:

Knowledge of:General and cost accounting principles and practices; auditing practices for certain positions; business law; grant and governmental accounting principles and practices; governmental budgetary operations; general laws and regulations pertaining to financial operations; the use and limitations of data processing accounting operations.

Ability to:Effectively perform a variety of difficult and complex governmental, general and/or cost accounting assignments; modify and maintain accounting systems; perform difficult, complex and sensitive fiscal and management audits of a variety of government agencies; understand, interpret and apply provisions of Federal, State and local regulations and policies pertinent to accounting and fiscal operations; prepare a wide variety of financial reports and statements for assignments in accounting and auditing; develop and monitor large departmental budgets; advise management staff on accounting and fiscal matters; supervise or act as team leader over a small group of professional staff.

The above employment standards are typically attained with one year of experience as Accountant-Auditor II with Shasta County or three years of professional experience performing complex accounting, auditing and/or systems work.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENT

Possession of an appropriate California driver license.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS

Responses to the foll