Principal Accountant

The Riverside County Probation Department has an opportunity for a Principal Accountant in Riverside.

The incumbent will develop and monitor budgets, work with grants and legislation, monitor and ensure compliance with accounts payable/receivable, procurement, and audit compliance, supervise other professional accountants, and perform other related duties as required.

Seeking candidates with experience in developing and monitoring budgets.

Experience utilizing Microsoft Excel, Access, and Power BI is preferred.

The Principal Accountant is the first management level classification in the professional Accountant series and reports to a manager or director level position.

When used in operating departments, it is characterized by its emphasis on management of a large and diversified accounting division with a sizable staff, including subordinate lead or supervisory professional and fiscal clerical accounting positions, which have responsibility over various accounting functions or projects.

In a division of the Auditor-Controller's Office, this class directs difficult accounting or auditing work involving the fiscal activities of several County departments and assists in the management of various functional units within the division.

The Principal Accountant is distinguished from Supervising Accountant classification in that the latter is the full supervisory level in the series and is further distinguished from the next higher level of Chief Accountant in that the latter has major division head responsibility in the Auditor-Controller's Office.

This class has been deemed eligible for the Performance Recognition Plan as set forth under Article 3, Section 311(C) of the County Management Resolution.

Program eligibility requires employees to be in a leadership position, manage other employees or programs, and have significant influence on the achievement of organizational objectives.

Advancement to the next level if obtained by competitive selection through an open recruitment.

Meet the Team!

The Riverside County Probation Department is a progressive criminal justice agency that believes in continuous improvement, searching and applying evidence-based and best practices, using measurable outcomes to evaluate programs, and doing our utmost to fulfill our mission and make Riverside County a safe and law-abiding community for its citizens.

We recognize the value of a qualified, professional, dynamic, and diverse workforce and in building an organization that reflects the progressive community we serve.• Plan, organize, direct, and coordinate through subordinate supervisors the establishment, review, revision, and daily operation of a departmental accounting function or a major division of the Auditor-Controller's Office.

• Determine how the departmental or division accounting management program should be structured and how accounting principles should be applied.

• Supervise specialized audits in the Auditor-Controller's Office of the fis...