1 JUNIOR ACCOUNTANT
Bargaining Unit: OE3: Professional Employees Group
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Class Code: 1523
Created/Updated: 1/5/2026
DEFINITION:
Under general supervision of the Accounting Manager, performs entry-level professional accounting work involving the City’s grants, budget process, and other financial activities. This position provides support to senior accounting staff and offers opportunities to develop skills in governmental accounting and financial reporting.
CLASS CHARACTERISITICS:
This is the entry-level class in the professional accounting series. Incumbents perform routine accounting assignments while learning City practices and procedures. Work is performed under close supervision with guidance from senior accountants and the Accounting Manager. As experience is gained, incumbents are expected to perform more complex tasks with increasing independence.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES (illustrative only):
Duties may include but are not limited to, the following:
Transaction Processing: Manage accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, treasury and budget.
Prepares journal entries, budget transfers, and basic financial reports. Financial Reporting: Assist in preparing monthly/annual financial statements, budget worksheets, and management reports.
Provides support during annual audits by gathering records and schedules. Maintains financial records to monitor revenue allocations from state, federal, and county sources.
Provides clerical and technical support to the Finance Department.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience:
Any combination of education, training, and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:
Completion of a bachelor’s degree with major coursework in accounting, finance, or a closely related field;
2 One (1) year of accounting or finance-related work experience, preferably in a governmental setting.
Licenses and Certifications:
None required.
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge Of:
Accounting and bookkeeping principles, practices, procedures and terminology; electronic data processing principles and applications; governmental and grants accounting and budgeting.
General accounting work; reading and interpreting complex financial reports, and other legal documents; analyzing, verifying and reconciling accounting records and documents; preparing financial reports and schedules, and input data for a computer system.
Using general office software such as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and enterprise resource planning.
Ability To:
Perform routine accounting work accurately and efficiently. Learn and apply City accounting procedures and regulations. Prepare simple financial reports and reconcile records. Communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing. Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with staff and external partners.
WORKING CONDITIONS, ADA AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
The City of Union City is an equal opportunity employer. The City of Union City will comply with its obligations under the law to provide equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities.
Positions in this class typically require: sitting, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.
Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met. 3 Incumbents generally work in a typical office environment with adequate light and temperature.
Travel: Positions in this class may require local and statewide travel as necessary.