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About the Role
This position supports the financial management, governance, and continuous improvement of the Clipper Program, the Bay Area's regional fare payment system. The Accountant will perform complex financial reconciliations, validate settlement activities, monitor internal controls, support audits, and coordinate with vendors and transit operators to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the program's financial operations.
Responsibilities
- Support the financial management and governance of the Clipper Program.
- Serve as the Finance liaison with back-office system vendor regarding financial reporting, settlements, reconciliations, and accounting issues.
- Monitor financial performance, trends, and risks, and prepare analyses, dashboards, reconciliation summaries, management reports, and performance metrics for management decision-making.
- Collaborate with participating transit operators, consultants, and internal departments to resolve financial issues and track commitments, program initiatives, and system enhancements through completion.
- Support financial system implementations, upgrades, releases, and other process-improvement initiatives.
- Perform complex reconciliations between banking records, general ledger, subledger reports, and back-office system reports.
- Analyze and investigate financial and reconciliation variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
- Validate financial transactions and general ledger use cases supporting revenue recognition and operator settlements.
- Review trial balances, accounting entries, and financial reports while supporting monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close activities.
- Evaluate the design and operation of financial controls and recommend best-practice updates to accounting policies, procedures, business rules, and process documentation.
- Monitor compliance with applicable accounting and auditing standards, banking requirements, contract provisions, and agency procedures; support internal and external audits by preparing schedules and evidence and coordinating information requests.
- Track control, reporting, and process issues with vendor and internal owners through resolution, and document and validate the resulting corrective actions.
- Review financial procedures, user guides, reconciliation documentation, and operational manuals for completeness, clarity, consistency, and usability, and recommend updates that support knowledge transfer and sustainable operations.
- Analyze high-volume financial and transaction data using Microsoft Excel, Power BI, or other comparable data analytics tools to identify trends, exceptions, and improvement opportunities.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), including accrual accounting and financial reporting.
- Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS), internal control principles, compliance requirements, and audit documentation.
- Governmental accounting principles and public-sector financial reporting.
- Enterprise financial systems, system interfaces, and high-volume transaction processing.
- Fare payment settlement processes, revenue accounting, bank reconciliations, and the flow of transactions from the back-office system to the general ledger.
- Financial analysis, data analytics, performance reporting, and reconciliation methodologies.
- Third-party vendor oversight and contract management.
- Microsoft Excel and Power BI or other data analytics tools.
- Ability to take ownership of assignments, track tasks and progress, manage multiple priorities, and meet established schedules with minimal supervision.
- Ability to analyze complex financial transactions and identify, investigate and clearly explain discrepancies.
- Ability to perform detailed reconciliations across multiple systems and validate the completeness and accuracy of financial output.
- Ability to evaluate vendor reports, system processes, and supporting documentation and communicate findings and recommendations.
- Ability to interpret and apply accounting policies, contract requirements, business rules, and financial procedures.
- Ability to prepare concise management reports, audit support, and process documentation.
- Ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively with internal teams, vendors, auditors, consultants, and regional partners.
- Equivalent to a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in accounting, finance, business or public administration, or a related field.
- Five (5) years of increasingly responsible professional accounting or financial analysis experience.
- At least two (2) years in the public sector, transportation, tolling, transit, or a high-volume payment environment.
- Experience operating complex enterprise financial systems in a high-volume transaction environment, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, SAP, Oracle, or comparable ERP platforms.
- Experience supporting a financial system implementation, upgrade, integration, or release.
- Experience working in a regulated environment requiring internal controls, audit support, and compliance documentation.
- Applicants with a degree issued by an institution outside the United States must have their transcripts evaluated by an academic credential evaluation service and provide proof of equivalency with their application.
Skills
- Accounting
- Financial Systems
- Internal Controls
- Audit Support
- Vendor Management
- Financial Analysis
- Regional Transit Finance
- Process Improvement
- Microsoft Dynamics Finance & Operations
- Microsoft Excel
- Power BI
- Data Analytics
Location
- On-site
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5 years of increasingly responsible professional accounting or financial analysis experience
- 2 years in the public sector, transportation, tolling, transit, or a high-volume payment environment
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business or public administration, or a related field
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation preferred
About the Company
- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is the transportation planning, financing, and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. MTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the state designated Regional Transportation Planning Agency (RTPA) for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. MTC provides services to the Association of Bay Governments (ABAG). For more information about MTC, visit www.mtc.ca.gov.
Equal Opportunity
- The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is an equal-opportunity, non-discriminatory employer. MTC provides all employees and applicants with an equal opportunity in every aspect of the employment experience regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, physical handicap, medical condition or marital status.