Salary: $51,417.00 - $79,969.00 Annually
Location : Grand Prairie, TX
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 5
Department: Parks, Arts & Recreation
Division: The Epic - Recreation Center
Opening Date: 04/18/2025
Closing Date: 5/2/2025 5:00 PM Central
Job Summary Join our team and take charge of shaping our department's financial success. We're looking for a detail-oriented professional to lead budget preparation, generate key financial and statistical reports, oversee billing and collections, and handle department purchases. If you're ready to make a real impact with your financial expertise, we want to hear from you. Apply now with The CIty Grand Prairie.
Essential Job Functions- Manages various budgets by assigning account numbers; approving payments; tracking expenses and revenues; computing and analyzing projections; reconciling accounts monthly; providing project status updates to managers; making recommendations; administering professional services, equipment maintenance and grant contracts; completing and submitting budgets; making transfers; auditing the petty cash drawer; and seeking other funding sources.
- Prepares the annual department proposed budget by analyzing historical trends; requesting and receiving staff recommendations; researching cost and necessity; computing impacts; surveying other cities; computing revenue expectations; providing summary reports; attending meetings; making recommendations; completing required forms; providing supporting documentation; and discussing or justifying needs.
- Computes financial and statistical reports by reconciling expenses, revenue, and calls; entering criteria parameters; running reports from user systems (Lawson, VMS, EMS, etc.), and Amazon, to compute various reports.
- Makes departmental purchases by assigning account numbers; researching bid specifications; initiating bids with Purchasing; following City purchasing procedures; analyzing bids; making purchasing recommendations; coordinating and communicating with other departments, vendors and staff; and completing and submitting council communications when required.
- Monitors and administers billing and collections system and programs by attending courses to maintain compliance with claims filing, privacy and governmental requirements; making changes to billing system tables according to governmental requirements; reviewing documentation; determining or authorizing medical indigence qualifications; maintaining member program; applying charges and payments; and reconciling monthly.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Regular and dependable attendance is required.
Minimum Qualifications Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may qualify. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:
- Education: Work requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field. Knowledge is normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Relevant experience may be substituted for education.
- Experience: Over one year up to and including two years.
- Licenses: Valid Driver's License required
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. 01
What is the highest level of Education obtained?
- Some high school, no diploma or GED
- High School Diploma/GED
- Some College, no degree
- Technical or Trade School (Did not complete)
- Technical or Trade School (Completed)
- Associate's Degree
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
- Doctorate Degree
02
Do you have a valid driver's license?
03
How many years of increasingly responsible experience and comprehensive background in a financial and related government discipline do you have?
- Under 6 months
- 1 year under 2 years
- 2 years under 3 years
- 3 years under 4 years
- 4 years under 5 years
- Over 5 years
04
Are you available to work a flexible schedule to including nights, weekends, and some holidays if needed?
05
Do you have any public sector financial administration experience?
06
Please select your computer skill level using Microsoft Office.
- No experience
- Basic
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Required Question