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Job Description
Job Summary
Join our team and take charge of shaping our department’s financial success! We're looking for a detail-oriented professional to lead budget preparation, generate key financial and statistical reports, oversee billing and collections, and handle department purchases. If you're ready to make a real impact with your financial expertise, we want to hear from you! Apply now with The CIty Grand Prairie!
Essential Job Functions- Manages various budgets by assigning account numbers; approving payments; tracking expenses and revenues; computing and analyzing projections; reconciling accounts monthly; providing project status updates to managers; making recommendations; administering professional services, equipment maintenance and grant contracts; completing and submitting budgets; making transfers; auditing the petty cash drawer; and seeking other funding sources.
- Prepares the annual department proposed budget by analyzing historical trends; requesting and receiving staff recommendations; researching cost and necessity; computing impacts; surveying other cities; computing revenue expectations; providing summary reports; attending meetings; making recommendations; completing required forms; providing supporting documentation; and discussing or justifying needs.
- Computes financial and statistical reports by reconciling expenses, revenue, and calls; entering criteria parameters; running reports from user systems (Lawson, VMS, EMS, etc.), and Amazon, to compute various reports.
- Makes departmental purchases by assigning account numbers; researching bid specifications; initiating bids with Purchasing; following City purchasing procedures; analyzing bids; making purchasing recommendations; coordinating and communicating with other departments, vendors and staff; and completing and submitting council communications when required.
- Monitors and administers billing and collections system and programs by attending courses to maintain compliance with claims filing, privacy and governmental requirements; making changes to billing system tables according to governmental requirements; reviewing documentation; determining or authorizing medical indigence qualifications; maintaining member program; applying charges and payments; and reconciling monthly.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Regular and dependable attendance is required.
Minimum Qualifications
Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may qualify. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:- Education: Work requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field. Knowledge is normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Relevant experience may be substituted for education.
- Experience: Over one year up to and including two years.
- Licenses: Valid Driver's License required
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 5/2/2025 5:00 PM Central - Manages various budgets by assigning account numbers; approving payments; tracking expenses and revenues; computing and analyzing projections; reconciling accounts monthly; providing project status updates to managers; making recommendations; administering professional services, equipment maintenance and grant contracts; completing and submitting budgets; making transfers; auditing the petty cash drawer; and seeking other funding sources.
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Special Instructions
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Grand Prairie
Show moreWelcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
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