Accountant I/II

The Accountant I position is responsible for providing financial, administrative, and clerical services, including processing and monitoring sales tax, real estate transfer tax, and other revenues to ensure effective, efficient, and accurate financial and administrative operations. In addition, this position cross-trains in vendor set-up, processing purchase requisitions and purchase orders. ACCOUNTANT I FULL JOB DESCRIPTION HERE The Accountant II position is responsible for providing advanced financial, administrative, and clerical services. In addition, this position cross-trains in other departments of finance. ACCOUNTANT II FULL JOB DESCRIPTION HERE E SSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 1. Receives citizens and provides routine information or refers them to the appropriate person for assistance 2. Receives inquiries from Town employees and the public regarding general financial information and response to questions 3. Interprets the Town of Avon’s Municipal Code pertaining to finance and taxes, responds to inquiring and assists taxpayers in understanding and complying with the codes 4. Issue’s business licenses and sales tax licenses, maintains subsequent database, and examines and enters paper applications and returns into database 5. Downloads daily bank balances from online banking, maintains spreadsheet for cash flow and reconciles bank accounts 6. Monitors customer accounts for non-payments, delayed payments, and other irregularities; issues delinquent payment letters; and maintains contact with owners or managers of businesses via phone, email, mail, or personally regarding delinquencies 7. Initiates collect efforts regarding delinquencies, issues summonses to vendors for non-payment 8. Participates in annual audits and provides audit schedules as assigned 9. Prepares documents for sales tax audits on customers; organizes, corresponds, and files documents appropriately 10. Reconciles Town Revenues (sales tax, accommodation tax, business licenses, etc.) 11. Follows established procedures for accepting payments and issuing receipts for all Town revenues, matches invoices to payments received, resolves discrepancies, reconciles customer accounts, maintains a filing system for revenues and taxes, balances receipts and prepares bank deposit 12. Assists Finance Director with updates to ClearGov and updates demographic data for the Town of Avon TOWN OF AVON BENEFIT GUIDE Benefits for full-time employees include:

• Health, Rx, vision, and dental insurance
• Avon Recreation Center pass
• Retirement match of 11%
• Life insurance
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays
• Spanish proficiency pay incentive

TOWN OF AVON CULTURE STATEMENT Town Employees provide excellent public service to the Avon community through a shared commitment to the core values of the Town of Avon VALUES: Public Service: We are committed to an effective, community-focused organization that passionately engages and serves our residents, property owners, businesses, and guests. Openness: We are open, transparent, complete, objective and respectful of opposing views with all Town officials and with the public in our decisions and actions. Leadership: We perform our work with commitment, passion, collaboration, fairness, honesty and courage to elevate our performance, the performance of our co-workers, and the character of our community. Integrity: We are professional, ethical, responsible and accountable in our decisions and actions. Stewardship: We are custodians and stewards of the Town’s financial, physical, environmental and natural resources on behalf of current and future generations.