Accountant (Payroll)

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Under general supervision, performs a variety of complex professional accounting duties, including transaction recordation, auditing, analyzing, and verifying fiscal records and reports, prepares financial and statistical reports, providing information to City staff regarding accounting practices and procedures, and reconciling general ledger accounts; assists in preparing the City’s annual budgets; performs detailed technical and specialized payroll support duties in the preparation and processing of the City's payroll; performs complex, difficult, and paraprofessional accounting work of a technical nature; processes, codes, enters, and retrieves confidential payroll data; operates computerized accounting systems involving a broad range of record keeping functions; processes personnel transactions making appropriate adjustments or changes in the payroll system; generates and balances payroll reports and records; performs accounting and analytical duties for capital projects, water utility, fixed assets, and year-end audit; prepares accounting reports and schedules; and performs related work as required.