Under the direction of Retirement Reporting Management, the incumbent will provide temporary professional accounting, reconciliation, and reporting support for the Retirement Reporting unit. The assignment will focus on preparing, auditing, balancing, and reconciling retirement reporting data submitted to the California State Teacher's Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). The incumbent will also assist with retirement contribution payments, fund transfers, process documentation, database maintenance, and reporting process improvements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities- Prepare and review monthly reitrement reporting data submitted to CalSTRS and CalPERS
- Perform detailed accounting reconciliations to verify the accuracy and completedness of employer and employee retirement contributions
- Audit, balance, and validate retirement reports prepared by unit staff, identifying discrepancies and ensuring reported amounts reconcile to payroll, accounting, and supporting financial records
- Research and resolve complex discrepancies involving retirement contributions, payroll data, employee deductions, employer contributions, account coding, and financial transactions
- Assist supervisors and management in meeting mandated retirement reporting timeliness, submission deadlines, payment dates, and remittance requirements.
- Prepare and distribute monthly CalSTRS and CalPERS reporting, remittance and processing deadline calendars
- Prepare worksheets and supporting schedules used to balance CalSTRS and CalPERS contribution transfers, deposit, and remittance.
- Prepare and process appropriate fund transfers, district charge deposits, abatements, corrections, and other reitrement-related financial transactions.
- Prepare and review countywide retirement contribution summaries and supporting reports for the CalSTRS and CalPERS retirement plans
- Verify that retirement contribution payments and remittances are accurate, properly authorized, and submitted to CalSTRS and CalPERS by established deadlines
- Reconcile retirement reporting data to payroll registers, general ledger records, cash transactions, district billings, and other source documentation
- Maintain organized and comlete supporting documentation for retirement reports, reconciliations, payments, transferes, adjustments, and audit purposes
- Assist with database maintenance, data validation, and correction of retirement reporting records.
- Identify opportunities to improve the accuracy, efficiency, and consistency of retirement reporting processes.
- Assist with automating manual reconciliations, reports, worksheets, and recordkeeping processes
- Develop or update procedures, reconciliations tools, process documentation, and internal controls related to retirement reporting activities
- Communicate with unit staff, supervisors, district personnel, and other stakeholders to obtaininformation and resolve reporting or reconciliation issues
- Perform other related accounting, reconciliation, reporting, and analytical duties as assigned.
Minimum Education and Experience- Bachelors degree from accredited college or university in accounting, finance, business, administration, public administration, or closely related field
- Professional experience performing accounting, financial analysis, account reconciliation, payroll accounting, auditing, or other complex financial reporting function
- Knowlege of generally acepted accounting principles and practices, general ledger accounting, fund transfers, deposits, abatements, and remittance processes
- Recordkeeping and audit documentation practices.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience performing comlex account reconciliations involving multiple data sources and financial systems
- Experience reviewing payroll, employee deductions, employer contributions, general ledger activity, and cash transactions
- Experience with CalSTRS, CalPERS, public-sector retirement reporting, public-sector retirement reporting, payroll reporting, or school district accounting
- Experience researching and resolve complex financial discrepancies
- Experience preparing journal entries, fund transfers, deposits, abatements, and financial schedules
- Experience working in a county office of eduction, school district, government agency or other public sector environment
- Experience developing automated spreadsheets, databases, or reporting tools
- Experience documenting business processes and improving internal controls.