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Salary: $54,500.00 - $83,640.00 Annually
Location: Various Locations within the City of El Paso, TX
Job Type: Civil Service
Job Number: 12220-1125
Department: FINANCIAL SERVS
Opening Date: 11/06/2025
Closing Date: 12/2/2025 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Exempt
Requirements Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Public Administration or a related field, including a concentration of 18 credit hours in accounting, and three (3) years of professional accounting or financial management experience.
MOS Codes: 89A (Army), 441 (Coast Guard), 1005 (Navy), 0111 (Marine Corps)
Licenses and Certificates: None.
General Purpose Under direction, participate in providing professional accounting, administrative, and advisory services for an assigned program or phase of fiscal support operations.
Typical Duties Plan, organize, implement, direct, and review delegated financial services functions, including recording, updating, and reporting transactions, and perform administrative and advisory duties, including complex accounting and financial analyses. Involves: Participating in the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). Oversee, balance, and reconcile general ledger statements. Prepare general journal entries (such as revenues, expenditures, and depreciation) to generate fiscal month and year‑to‑date balance sheets, and monitor changes in fund balance and cash flow financial statements. Analyze and prepare financial statements related to debt service, property tax distributions, and other transactions such as payroll, disbursements, revenues, or accounts payable. Oversee payroll and benefits operations, prepare year‑end accruals and schedules, calculate and wire transfer funds for payroll taxes or pension contributions, and research employee concerns. Research and generate reports to assist external auditors. Perform accounting to track bond issues and other debt instruments relating to capital projects fund or construction projects, verify fund availability for change orders to construction contracts, and prepare budget transfers. Account for fixed assets and warehouse operations, including acquisitions, disposals, transfers, depreciation, and updates of the asset schedules. Prepare, enter, and post journal entries for capital purchases, depreciation, construction work in progress, retainage, accruals, and transfers between accounts, funds, or departments. Track and report expenditure of federal grant funds and monitor sub‑recipient agencies to ensure expenditure of allocated funds meets grant requirements.
Maintain and Analyze Financial and Accounting Databases Maintain and analyze assigned financial and accounting database and allied information management systems. Involves: Enter, retrieve, and review accounting data from the centralized financial management system and personal computers or source documents such as journal entries, invoices, collection details, or budget transfers to generate financial reports. Generate periodic accounting or statistical reports to management or regulatory agencies. Analyze expenditure trends and assist in the preparation of the annual operating or capital improvement budget. Maintain network security of finance and accounting or other automated record‑keeping systems, update system tables, open and close posting periods, review system output to ensure system integrity, discuss and identify solutions with programmers, correct batch errors, and train and assist system users. Project airline rates and fees, passenger facility charges, generate reports and schedules, meet with airline representatives, and review and re‑calculate actual airline rates and fees upon conclusion of the fiscal year, and adjust billing accordingly.
Supervision Supervise designated employees, if assigned. Involves: Assign, schedule, guide, and monitor work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and development. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Identify and resolve staff differences, conflicts, and deficiencies. Interview applicants and recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially.
Related Duties Perform related duties as required. Involves: Perform duties of supervisor or coworkers if necessary to ensure continuity of operations during absences. Advise the supervisor promptly of situations or issues that have or could lead to deviation from expected results and recommend appropriate solutions or options.
General Information For a complete job specification, refer to the full description. Note: This is a new advertisement for Senior Accountant. You must apply if you are still interested in this position. Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applicants have been received. Important Note: The required Supplemental Questions and answers are considered an examination component and will generate a score. Applicants are being tested on a conditional basis pending a review of minimum qualifications. Applications will be reviewed for applicants who pass the Supplemental Questions exam. Per CSC Rules & Regulations, after review of the minimum qualifications for applicants that pass the Supplemental Questions exam, a passing score, combined with applicable seniority points and veteran points, will be used to create a list of candidates. Please note: Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information. A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete. To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position. Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.
Benefits Life and Health Insurance: The City of El Paso is a self‑insured entity with a third‑party administrator for Medical and Pharmacy benefits. Basic Life Insurance Coverage is available at no cost to eligible employees. Additional Life Insurance and coverage for your dependents are also available. Employees can select optional Dental, Vision, and Short Term Disability coverage. Employees also have the option to participate in a Health Savings Account or Flexible Spending Account (healthcare and/or dependent care for daycare expenses). All of these insurance and coverage options can be configured within a month of your new employee orientation date. An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with access to mental health sessions, therapy, and more is available at no cost. A trained counselor is also available to help you and your dependents cope with life’s stressors so that you can live a happy productive lifestyle. The City’s Wellness Program seeks to promote better health and wellness amongst the workforce through various programs and incentives in which employees may choose to participate, to include wellness education, fitness tests, biometric screenings, group fitness, health coaching and so much more! Keep Learning, Growing & Reinventing Yourself! The City of El Paso's Tuition Assistance Program encourages employee personal and professional development by sharing educational costs with those employees who have successfully completed their original probation, and in turn retain a skillful workforce. Each year, employees can obtain Tuition Assistance for Degree, Certifications, Continuing Education, and Books & Equipment.
Eligibility for Vacation Leave
All regular employees who are regularly scheduled to work on an average, a minimum of twenty (20) hours per week, who have held a position in the City Service for a period of six months from date of employment, shall be eligible for vacation allowance as hereinafter set forth. Part‑time employees shall accrue vacation leave at a pro‑rated amount of full‑time entitlement based on the number of hours that they are scheduled to work. Employees covered by collective bargaining agreements shall accrue vacation as provided in the applicable agreement.
For 0 - 5 Years Of Service (12 Days): 40 hour per week employees – 3.70 hours per biweekly pay period.
For >5 to 15 years of service (17 days): 40 hour per week employees – 5.24 hours per biweekly pay period.
For >15 or more years of service (20 days): 40 hour per week employees – 6.16 hours per biweekly pay period.
Sick Leave With Pay Employees shall be entitled to accrue sick leave with pay in accordance with the Rules of the Civil Service Commission.
Accident With Pay Leave The Amended Section 4.4 of the Ordinance shall become effective upon adoption and shall apply to occupational injuries and occupational diseases occurring on and after date of adoption. Occupational injuries and occupational diseases occurring before such date will be governed by the Ordinance in effect at the time of the date of injury or disease.
Pregnancy Leave
Pregnancy shall be treated the same as any other temporary physical disability.
An employee on pregnancy leave shall use accumulated and unused regular sick leave time and then (unless granted use of special sick leave) shall be on leave without pay, unless the employee chooses to use any accumulated and unused annual leave.
An employee going on pregnancy leave shall give written notice to her department head with appropriate medical verification. Before returning to work from pregnancy leave, the individual will provide appropriate medical documentation releasing the employee to return to work, as is required for any individual who has been on leave for a temporary physical disability.
Legal Holidays
First day of January (New Year’s Day)
Third Monday in January (Martin Luther King Holiday)
Thirty‑first day in March (Cesar Chavez Day)
Last Monday in May (Memorial Day)
June 19 (Juneteenth)
Fourth day of July (Independence Day)
First Monday in September (Labor Day)
Eleventh Day in November (Veteran’s Day)
Fourth Thursday in November (Thanksgiving Day)
The Friday following the fourth Thursday in November (Day after Thanksgiving)
Twenty‑fifth Day in December (Christmas Day)
Employee’s Birthday
In addition to the above days, the following days are also declared to be legal holidays: 1. Any day designated as a holiday by City Council. 2. When any legal holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be considered a legal holiday. 3. When any legal holiday falls on a Sunday, the following business day shall be considered a legal holiday.
Additional Screening Questions 01
Please select the combination of education and experience you have from the following options:
A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Public Administration or a related field and a minimum of three (3) years of professional accounting or financial management experience.
A master's Degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Public Administration or a related field and a minimum of eighteen (18) months of professional accounting or financial management experience.
None of the above.
02
Do you have a total of 18 college credit hours in accounting?
Yes
No
03
Please describe the knowledge you have of federal, state, and local laws, regulations, rules and ordinances related to municipal accounting, finance, fiscal controls, financial reporting, including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB), and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) pronouncements and publications.
No Knowledge
Some Knowledge
Good Knowledge
Considerable Knowledge
04
Please describe your knowledge of modern municipal accounting and management practices, generally accepted accounting, auditing, and investment practices, methods, policies, practices, and procedures.
No Knowledge
Some Knowledge
Good Knowledge
Considerable Knowledge
05
Please describe your ability to clearly and concisely communicate both orally and in writing to develop, prepare, and present complex accounting or statistical reports and financial schedules to management or regulatory agencies.
No Knowledge
Some Knowledge
Good Knowledge
Considerable Knowledge
06
Please describe your ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, coworkers, officials, and the public to resolve ordinary issues or occasionally those of a sensitive or controversial nature.
07
Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Have you had your diploma, transcripts, degree or other required documents translated and evaluated by an agency of NACES?
Yes, it has been translated and certified and I can provide documentation upon a job offer.
No, I have not had my degree translated and certified.
N/A - my degree is from an accredited U.S. university or college.
08. Candidates will be evaluated based on the information provided on the application and the completeness of the responses to the Supplemental Questions. The following will disqualify you from moving forward in the recruitment process. -Failure to fully detail all work experience and job duties. -Failure to fully detail all lead, supervisory and managerial experience and duties if required. -Overlapping dates of work experience. -Copying and pasting directly from the job specification. -Responses referring to your résumé.
I acknowledge I have read and understand the above information.
09. I understand that I am being tested on a conditional basis pending a review of minimum qualifications. Note: Only applications that pass the supplemental questions exam will be reviewed.
I understand that I am being tested on a conditional basis pending review of minimum qualifications.
10. Required supplemental questions and answers are considered an examination component and will generate a score.
I understand that my answers to the supplemental questions will generate a score.
Employer City of El Paso
Address: 300 N. Campbell, El Paso, Texas, 79901
Phone: 915-212-0045
Website: http://www.elpasotexas.gov
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Part‑time
Job Function
Accounting / Auditing and Finance
Air, Water, and Waste Program Management
Job Reference El Paso, TX $91,400.00 - $130,600.00 9 hours ago (Note: This information refers to a related position and has been removed from the core job description.)
Financial Analyst - Budget and Forecasting: El Paso, TX $95,625 - $130,000 2 weeks ago (Note: This information refers to a related position and has been removed from the core job description.)
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Salary: $54,500.00 - $83,640.00 Annually
Location: Various Locations within the City of El Paso, TX
Job Type: Civil Service
Job Number: 12220-1125
Department: FINANCIAL SERVS
Opening Date: 11/06/2025
Closing Date: 12/2/2025 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Exempt
Requirements Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Public Administration or a related field, including a concentration of 18 credit hours in accounting, and three (3) years of professional accounting or financial management experience.
MOS Codes: 89A (Army), 441 (Coast Guard), 1005 (Navy), 0111 (Marine Corps)
Licenses and Certificates: None.
General Purpose Under direction, participate in providing professional accounting, administrative, and advisory services for an assigned program or phase of fiscal support operations.
Typical Duties Plan, organize, implement, direct, and review delegated financial services functions, including recording, updating, and reporting transactions, and perform administrative and advisory duties, including complex accounting and financial analyses. Involves: Participating in the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). Oversee, balance, and reconcile general ledger statements. Prepare general journal entries (such as revenues, expenditures, and depreciation) to generate fiscal month and year‑to‑date balance sheets, and monitor changes in fund balance and cash flow financial statements. Analyze and prepare financial statements related to debt service, property tax distributions, and other transactions such as payroll, disbursements, revenues, or accounts payable. Oversee payroll and benefits operations, prepare year‑end accruals and schedules, calculate and wire transfer funds for payroll taxes or pension contributions, and research employee concerns. Research and generate reports to assist external auditors. Perform accounting to track bond issues and other debt instruments relating to capital projects fund or construction projects, verify fund availability for change orders to construction contracts, and prepare budget transfers. Account for fixed assets and warehouse operations, including acquisitions, disposals, transfers, depreciation, and updates of the asset schedules. Prepare, enter, and post journal entries for capital purchases, depreciation, construction work in progress, retainage, accruals, and transfers between accounts, funds, or departments. Track and report expenditure of federal grant funds and monitor sub‑recipient agencies to ensure expenditure of allocated funds meets grant requirements.
Maintain and Analyze Financial and Accounting Databases Maintain and analyze assigned financial and accounting database and allied information management systems. Involves: Enter, retrieve, and review accounting data from the centralized financial management system and personal computers or source documents such as journal entries, invoices, collection details, or budget transfers to generate financial reports. Generate periodic accounting or statistical reports to management or regulatory agencies. Analyze expenditure trends and assist in the preparation of the annual operating or capital improvement budget. Maintain network security of finance and accounting or other automated record‑keeping systems, update system tables, open and close posting periods, review system output to ensure system integrity, discuss and identify solutions with programmers, correct batch errors, and train and assist system users. Project airline rates and fees, passenger facility charges, generate reports and schedules, meet with airline representatives, and review and re‑calculate actual airline rates and fees upon conclusion of the fiscal year, and adjust billing accordingly.
Supervision Supervise designated employees, if assigned. Involves: Assign, schedule, guide, and monitor work. Appraise employee performance. Provide for training and development. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Identify and resolve staff differences, conflicts, and deficiencies. Interview applicants and recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, or other employee status changes. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially.
Related Duties Perform related duties as required. Involves: Perform duties of supervisor or coworkers if necessary to ensure continuity of operations during absences. Advise the supervisor promptly of situations or issues that have or could lead to deviation from expected results and recommend appropriate solutions or options.
General Information For a complete job specification, refer to the full description. Note: This is a new advertisement for Senior Accountant. You must apply if you are still interested in this position. Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applicants have been received. Important Note: The required Supplemental Questions and answers are considered an examination component and will generate a score. Applicants are being tested on a conditional basis pending a review of minimum qualifications. Applications will be reviewed for applicants who pass the Supplemental Questions exam. Per CSC Rules & Regulations, after review of the minimum qualifications for applicants that pass the Supplemental Questions exam, a passing score, combined with applicable seniority points and veteran points, will be used to create a list of candidates. Please note: Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information. A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete. To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position. Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.
Benefits Life and Health Insurance: The City of El Paso is a self‑insured entity with a third‑party administrator for Medical and Pharmacy benefits. Basic Life Insurance Coverage is available at no cost to eligible employees. Additional Life Insurance and coverage for your dependents are also available. Employees can select optional Dental, Vision, and Short Term Disability coverage. Employees also have the option to participate in a Health Savings Account or Flexible Spending Account (healthcare and/or dependent care for daycare expenses). All of these insurance and coverage options can be configured within a month of your new employee orientation date. An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with access to mental health sessions, therapy, and more is available at no cost. A trained counselor is also available to help you and your dependents cope with life’s stressors so that you can live a happy productive lifestyle. The City’s Wellness Program seeks to promote better health and wellness amongst the workforce through various programs and incentives in which employees may choose to participate, to include wellness education, fitness tests, biometric screenings, group fitness, health coaching and so much more! Keep Learning, Growing & Reinventing Yourself! The City of El Paso's Tuition Assistance Program encourages employee personal and professional development by sharing educational costs with those employees who have successfully completed their original probation, and in turn retain a skillful workforce. Each year, employees can obtain Tuition Assistance for Degree, Certifications, Continuing Education, and Books & Equipment.
Eligibility for Vacation Leave
All regular employees who are regularly scheduled to work on an average, a minimum of twenty (20) hours per week, who have held a position in the City Service for a period of six months from date of employment, shall be eligible for vacation allowance as hereinafter set forth. Part‑time employees shall accrue vacation leave at a pro‑rated amount of full‑time entitlement based on the number of hours that they are scheduled to work. Employees covered by collective bargaining agreements shall accrue vacation as provided in the applicable agreement.
For 0 - 5 Years Of Service (12 Days): 40 hour per week employees – 3.70 hours per biweekly pay period.
For >5 to 15 years of service (17 days): 40 hour per week employees – 5.24 hours per biweekly pay period.
For >15 or more years of service (20 days): 40 hour per week employees – 6.16 hours per biweekly pay period.
Sick Leave With Pay Employees shall be entitled to accrue sick leave with pay in accordance with the Rules of the Civil Service Commission.
Accident With Pay Leave The Amended Section 4.4 of the Ordinance shall become effective upon adoption and shall apply to occupational injuries and occupational diseases occurring on and after date of adoption. Occupational injuries and occupational diseases occurring before such date will be governed by the Ordinance in effect at the time of the date of injury or disease.
Pregnancy Leave
Pregnancy shall be treated the same as any other temporary physical disability.
An employee on pregnancy leave shall use accumulated and unused regular sick leave time and then (unless granted use of special sick leave) shall be on leave without pay, unless the employee chooses to use any accumulated and unused annual leave.
An employee going on pregnancy leave shall give written notice to her department head with appropriate medical verification. Before returning to work from pregnancy leave, the individual will provide appropriate medical documentation releasing the employee to return to work, as is required for any individual who has been on leave for a temporary physical disability.
Legal Holidays
First day of January (New Year’s Day)
Third Monday in January (Martin Luther King Holiday)
Thirty‑first day in March (Cesar Chavez Day)
Last Monday in May (Memorial Day)
June 19 (Juneteenth)
Fourth day of July (Independence Day)
First Monday in September (Labor Day)
Eleventh Day in November (Veteran’s Day)
Fourth Thursday in November (Thanksgiving Day)
The Friday following the fourth Thursday in November (Day after Thanksgiving)
Twenty‑fifth Day in December (Christmas Day)
Employee’s Birthday
In addition to the above days, the following days are also declared to be legal holidays: 1. Any day designated as a holiday by City Council. 2. When any legal holiday falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be considered a legal holiday. 3. When any legal holiday falls on a Sunday, the following business day shall be considered a legal holiday.
Additional Screening Questions 01
Please select the combination of education and experience you have from the following options:
A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Public Administration or a related field and a minimum of three (3) years of professional accounting or financial management experience.
A master's Degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Public Administration or a related field and a minimum of eighteen (18) months of professional accounting or financial management experience.
None of the above.
02
Do you have a total of 18 college credit hours in accounting?
Yes
No
03
Please describe the knowledge you have of federal, state, and local laws, regulations, rules and ordinances related to municipal accounting, finance, fiscal controls, financial reporting, including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB), and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) pronouncements and publications.
No Knowledge
Some Knowledge
Good Knowledge
Considerable Knowledge
04
Please describe your knowledge of modern municipal accounting and management practices, generally accepted accounting, auditing, and investment practices, methods, policies, practices, and procedures.
No Knowledge
Some Knowledge
Good Knowledge
Considerable Knowledge
05
Please describe your ability to clearly and concisely communicate both orally and in writing to develop, prepare, and present complex accounting or statistical reports and financial schedules to management or regulatory agencies.
No Knowledge
Some Knowledge
Good Knowledge
Considerable Knowledge
06
Please describe your ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, coworkers, officials, and the public to resolve ordinary issues or occasionally those of a sensitive or controversial nature.
07
Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, and degrees must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Have you had your diploma, transcripts, degree or other required documents translated and evaluated by an agency of NACES?
Yes, it has been translated and certified and I can provide documentation upon a job offer.
No, I have not had my degree translated and certified.
N/A - my degree is from an accredited U.S. university or college.
08. Candidates will be evaluated based on the information provided on the application and the completeness of the responses to the Supplemental Questions. The following will disqualify you from moving forward in the recruitment process. -Failure to fully detail all work experience and job duties. -Failure to fully detail all lead, supervisory and managerial experience and duties if required. -Overlapping dates of work experience. -Copying and pasting directly from the job specification. -Responses referring to your résumé.
I acknowledge I have read and understand the above information.
09. I understand that I am being tested on a conditional basis pending a review of minimum qualifications. Note: Only applications that pass the supplemental questions exam will be reviewed.
I understand that I am being tested on a conditional basis pending review of minimum qualifications.
10. Required supplemental questions and answers are considered an examination component and will generate a score.
I understand that my answers to the supplemental questions will generate a score.
Employer City of El Paso
Address: 300 N. Campbell, El Paso, Texas, 79901
Phone: 915-212-0045
Website: http://www.elpasotexas.gov
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Part‑time
Job Function
Accounting / Auditing and Finance
Air, Water, and Waste Program Management
Job Reference El Paso, TX $91,400.00 - $130,600.00 9 hours ago (Note: This information refers to a related position and has been removed from the core job description.)
Financial Analyst - Budget and Forecasting: El Paso, TX $95,625 - $130,000 2 weeks ago (Note: This information refers to a related position and has been removed from the core job description.)
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