Job Description
TWDB - 26-74: Revenue Accountant (Accountant II) The mission of the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) is to lead the state's efforts in ensuring a secure water future for Texas and its citizens. Our mission is a vital part of Texas' overall vision and the state's mission and goals that relate to maintaining the viability of the state's natural resources, health, and economic development. To accomplish our goals of planning for the state's water resources and providing affordable water and wastewater services, the TWDB provides water planning, data collection and dissemination, financial assistance, and technical assistance services to the citizens of Texas. The tremendous population growth that the state continues to experience and the recurrent threat of severe drought only intensify the need for the TWDB to accomplish its goals in an effective and efficient manner. Job Description Performs routine (journey-level) accounting work. Serves as a revenue accountant in the Revenue section of the Financial Operations Division. Ensures that accounting records and files related to deposits are processed timely and are reviewed for accuracy and consistency with state accounting guidance and agency record keeping methodologies. Reconciles, researches, and resolves discrepancies identified. Assists with other revenue functions as requested by management. Provides general support on special projects as assigned. May train others. Works under moderate supervision, with limited latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. Reports to the Director of the Financial Operations Division. Essential job functions include processing and depositing agency revenue in a timely manner, preparing and entering deposits and journal in Uniform Statewide Accounting System (USAS), Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS), Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company (Trust) and Texas Water Information System Expansion (TxWise), preparing monthly reconciliations activities, reviewing various journals for discrepancies, setting up vendors in the Texas Identification Number System (TINS) and CAPPS, serving as backup and providing assistance to other revenue accountants, preparing entries and documents for routine transactions, complying with established procedures as set forth in the Financial Operations Division, researching items upon request, monitoring aged receivables accounts and other pending items, coordinating coverage of functions related to individual job responsibilities prior to requesting time off, participating in independent job-related research and demonstrating initiative when seeking solutions to issues, composing procedures for tasks and responsibilities, maintaining confidential and sensitive information, ensuring individual and team files (electronic and hard versions) are appropriately maintained and timely disposed of in accordance with the agency's records retention procedures and schedule, maintaining required certifications and licenses and meeting the continuing education needs and requirements of the position to include, attending mandatory training courses, and performing other duties as assigned. Qualifications Minimum qualifications include graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field, and one year of relevant accounting and financial operations experience. Relevant education and experience can be substituted on a year-for-year basis. Preferred qualifications include previous State of Texas government accounting experience, experience working in accounts payable/receivable, and previous experience and knowledge with CAPPS Financials, USAS, or other fund accounting software. Knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) include knowledge of local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to the Financial Operations Division, knowledge of the principles and practices of public administration, knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Governmental Accounting Board (GAB) requirements, knowledge of accounting software such as CAPPS, USAS and fund accounting software, skills in using Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, and Access, skills in use of internet, email, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software, ability to maintain the security or integrity of critical infrastructure within Texas, ability to meet agency in-office requirements, ability to prepare and enter journals into internal and external accounting systems, ability to work accurately and independently with numerical details in a high-volume setting, ability to work as a team member in a courteous, productive, and effective manner, ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, ability to work effectively and independently in a dependable, organized, and productive manner in order to ar