The City of Boone is seeking a detail-oriented and strategically minded Assistant Finance Officer to join a dynamic and forward-thinking organization to help assist in guiding our financial operations and support sustainable growth. Boone, Iowa is a progressive and growing county-seat with 12,460 residents located 15 miles west of Ames and 45 miles northwest of Des Moines. Boone offers an abundance of outdoor activities from skiing in the winter to “riding the rails” in the summer, to beautiful hikes or a calm drive through the Ledges State Park.
With the construction of a 1.2 million square foot Daisy Brand facility underway, the City is undergoing significant infrastructure projects that include water and wastewater plant upgrades, street upgrades, water reservoir, water tower, and lift station. In addition, the community has several new housing developments under construction.
Under the general direction of the Finance Officer, this is an entry level position with an opportunity to learn about the inner workings of a local government. The Assistant Finance Officer will be responsible for processing accounts payable, payroll, and the financials of various projects.
Duties:
- Process all accounts payable invoices: review of all invoices for compliance, reconciling invoices and statements, accurately entering invoices into accounting software, maintaining vendor information, process annual 1099s, creating and maintaining all accounts payable reports and files, and staying informed with any new regulations.
- Process payroll for all employees: making changes to employees setup, reviewing payroll journals for accuracy, processing payroll deductions and withholdings, ability to think through issues or new situations to determine the best way to process employee timesheets, answer employee questions regarding payroll forms and pay stubs, process W-2s and 1095s, and stay informed with new regulations.
- Financial tracking of various projects: tracking via excel spreadsheets the expenditures and revenues for all projects, reconciliation of spreadsheets to pay requests and to accounting software, create draw down request for reimbursements of grants, maintaining project files for compliance.
- Perform a variety of record keeping activities for the City such as: scanning, filing, and maintaining records as set forth in the Record Retention Manual and/or internal policy for all records pertaining to accounts payable, payroll, personnel files, and projects.
- Perform financial/clerical duties: file monthly pool taxes, motor vehicle fuel tax refunds, and report monthly fuel use.
- Customer Service duties both internally and externally through verbal and written communications.
- Process Mail: Duties include sorting incoming mail for all departments, putting postage on all outgoing mail and taking all outgoing mail to the post office.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the Finance Officer, City Administrator, co-workers, elected officials, and the general public.
The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check including a credit check prior to beginning work.
Salary and Benefits:
- Salary: $19.00 to $26.50 per hour
- Benefits: 11 paid holiday, sick leave, vacation, IPERS, Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, and Cafeteria Plan,
To apply for the position please submit a cover letter, resume, application, and five (5) professional references to clerk@booneiowa.gov with Assistant Finance Officer in the subject line or mail to City of Boone, Attention: City Clerk, 923 8th Street, Boone, IA, 50036. Applications can be found at www.boonegov.com.
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