Tax Collection Manager

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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

The following are job-related qualifications that are required for employment consideration for this position:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in accounting or finance or a business-related degree with at least 18 semester hours in accounting, finance, tax law, or a combination of coursework from these three disciplines.
• Experience with municipal/governmental tax collections.
• Experience supervising employees in a taxation or accounting environment to include training employees, reviewing work, giving performance appraisals, and approving time off.
• Experience interpreting and applying case law, state codes, or legal opinions related to tax law or changes in tax law (e.g., reviewing for relevancy, explaining to the public, using tax codes to make decisions).
• Experience balancing and reconciling accounts (i.e., reviewing financial data or reports against other financial information, finding discrepancies, and balancing).
• Experience managing, developing, or providing input to create a budget to include gathering historic information and cost estimates.
• Experience creating financial reports and providing recommendations based on the financial information (e.g., trends, ways to save money).

TYPICAL JOB DUTIES:

• Monitors and maintains relationships with financial institutions to ensure assets are protected.

• Prepares, monitors, and administers departmental or organizational budget by reviewing spending trends, expenditure reports, analyzing financial data and ensuring expenditures are within annual budgetary limits.

• Creates, reviews, and revises policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, regulations, standards, and guidelines.

• Supervises staff by assigning and distributing work, directing staff in their job duties, monitoring progress of work, providing feedback and/or training.

• Oversees the daily operations of the collection of current and delinquent ad valorem, real, and personal property taxes in accordance with the Alabama state code.

• Plans and directs the collection and distribution of ad valorem, real, and personal property taxes and condemnation revenues to ensure compliance to federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and guidelines.

• Oversees the biweekly distribution of collected funds to the State of Alabama, Jefferson County, municipalities, the board of education, and other various state and local agencies.

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EEO STATEMENT:

The Personnel Board of Jefferson County provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment with the Personnel Board of Jefferson County, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.  Each Merit System member city/agency operates its own equal employment opportunity policies available on the individual city/agency website.

ACCOMMODATION:

To request an accommodation in the application or hiring process due to your own ongoing medical condition or disability, please contact our Accommodations Coordinator at accommodationrequest@pbjcal.org or phone at 205-279-3500 (select option 1) Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time. The accommodation process is reserved solely for job seekers with disabilities requesting accessibility assistance or accommodation in the job application process.

NOTE:

This job posting may close before, or be extended beyond, the listed Target Close Date based on the employment needs of the Merit System. More detail regarding this job is available by clicking Apply.

DISCLAIMER:

This job posting is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of the job duties, responsibilities, or skills and abilities required for this position and may be changed at the discretion of the Personnel Board at any time.