Tax Deputy Administrator - El Paso, United States - El Paso County (TX)

Description

Requirements


MOS Code:
None


Education and Experience:

A Bachelor's degree or higher in accounting, business or public administration, finance, or a related field and four (4) years of financial management, or tax administration experience, including two (2) years of supervisory experience.

Licenses and Certificates:
None.

General Purpose

Under general direction, as an assistant department director, assist in managing consolidated tax assessment and collection operations.

Typical Duties

Plan, organize, direct and control tax collection functions


Involves:

Coordinate adoption of tax rates, preparation and distribution of annual tax bills, assist taxing entities in rate adoption by training in Truth-in-Taxation requirements, calculation of effective and rollback tax rates, schedule required hearings and publications to provide for compliance with inter-local agreements with other jurisdictions for the assessment and collection of property taxes.

Review and evaluate service delivery methods and systems including administrative, automated database and control systems and internal relationships


Involves:
Identify opportunities for process improvement and recommend improvement to systems and standard operating procedures to enhance internal control.
Establish work priorities, monitor work progress, assist in developing departmental operating budget and monitor purchases and expenditures.

Prepare monthly and annual reports on operations, prepare journal entries for year-end close, assist auditors and respond to external audit questions.

Coordinate and implement enhancements to automated tax database and reporting system and monitor data integrity.

Respond to and resolve sensitive and complex inquiries and complaints


Involves:

Answer special requests of the Chief Administrative Officer, Mayor, Chief Financial Officer Council or other elected officials for information and interpretation, or with attorneys on complex issues such as tax seizures or bankruptcies.

Represent the City at various meetings and conferences, attend meetings and make presentations at taxing entities, and interact with a wide range of officials, taxing entities, tax attorneys, coworkers and the public.

Supervise assigned staff


Involves:
Assign, schedule, guide and monitor work.
Appraise employee performance and review subordinates evaluations.
Provide for training and development.
Counsel, motivate and maintain harmony.
Identify and resolve staff differences, conflicts and deficiencies.
Interview applicants.
Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, merit pay or other employee status changes.
Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially.

Perform miscellaneous administrative and managerial duties


Involves:
Perform duties of department director or coworkers if necessary to ensure continuity of operations during absences.

Advise supervisor in a timely manner of situations or issues that have or could lead to deviation from expected results and recommend appropriate solutions or options.

General Information

For the complete job specification, clickhere.

Please note:
This is an unclassified contract position.

Note:
Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.

Note:

Applicants with a foreign degree must have all relevant documents translated and evaluated by a College, University or Credentials Evaluation Services Departmentpriorto submitting them to the Human Resources Department.

A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as "See résumé" are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.

To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge and skills must be clearly stated on your application's employment history.

We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.

Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.