Bookkeeper II (Utilities)

Job Title

This position is for specialized bookkeeping and clerical work for assigned department within the City.

Job Description

The City of Sunrise is more than a workplace it's a community built on our Three Pillars: Customer Service, Collaboration, and Transparency. We're committed to creating an environment where innovation thrives, teamwork is celebrated, and every employee has the opportunity to grow and make a lasting impact.

Sunrise offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, professional development opportunities, and a strong culture of recognition. Effective January 2026, the City is has launched an Alternative Work Schedule designed to further support employee work-life balance providing eligible staff with two three-day weekends per month through an every-other-Friday-off model. This initiative reflects our continued focus on flexibility and employee well-being.

This classification involves specialized bookkeeping and clerical work for assigned department within the City. An employee in this position provides customer service; processes registrations and/or receives payments; checks discounts and extensions; creates and maintains financial spreadsheets; researches discrepancies; posts financial records, invoices, and/or claims; maintains and reviews financial records; handles NSF checks; prepares department payrolls; maintains vendor, member, security badge, and/or contract lists; processes documents using coding and more complex calculations; and balances accounts. This position also opens/ closes assigned area and covers reception areas as needed.

Examples of Duties

Essential job functions include:

• Providing front desk coverage; assisting general public (walk-in/phone) and volunteers; registering patrons for classes; processing payments; updating member information into systems; taking member photos; and issuing ID and security cards.
• Maintaining security, member, or other types of lists.
• Receiving money, verifying amounts received, and preparing deposits.
• Examining invoices and warrants; determining if material is received and properly priced; checking discounts and extensions; and approving invoices for payment.
• Creating and maintaining financial spreadsheets; making arithmetic calculations; checking various accounting tables; and creating reports.
• Sorting and filing materials numerically, alphabetically, or by other established classifications; assembling and verifying correctness of records keeping data and other information gathered for reporting purposes.
• Maintaining and reconciling gift card purchases, P-Cards, donations, and distributions.
• Maintaining records.
• Completing and mailing routine forms or form letters; distributing/delivering mail in office.
• Receiving and counting cash and other payments; preparing receipts; reconciling and replenishing cash; and posting to records.
• Processing the payroll in large divisions; making changes and corrections to payroll sheets; preparing special payrolls; submitting to appropriate source; and assisting new personnel in completing necessary payroll and deduction information.
• Analyzing budget status by monitoring expenditures; forecasting encumbrances for the fiscal budget year.
• Making reminder phone calls for trips, lectures, and social services events.
• Operating adding machines, calculators, bookkeeping machines, data entry terminals, and other standard office equipment.
• Maintaining vendor files; maintaining inventory information; and maintaining contract lists.
• Contacting vendors and Finance personnel to determine order, receipt, and payment status for goods and services.
• Preparing receipt work sheets for Finance indicating department, activity, and amounts received.
• Balancing accounts; researching discrepancies.
• Assisting other clerical personnel as needed.
• Performing related work as required.

Requirements

Education:

• High school or vocational school diploma or GED.
• Some college level course work in accounting or finance desired.

Experience:

• Reasonable work experience in financial record-keeping utilizing a computerized system involving accounts payables and accounts receivables including some supervisory experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Work is performed primarily in a standard office environment and data center rooms and closets with some travel to different sites; incumbents may be required to work extended hours including but not limited to evenings, weekends and holidays.
• Must have the use of sensory skills in order to effectively communicate and interact with other employees and the public through personal contact, the use of the telephone and/or other City-issued technology devices.
• Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach and twist under desks and around furniture; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull moderate to heavy amounts of weight up to 50 lbs.; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a computer keyboard; and to verbally communicate to exchange information. Occasional climbing on ladder or stool to reach or mount equipment.

Supplemental Information

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include:

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of accounting.
• Knowledge of modern office practices, procedures, and equipment.
• Skill in using Office and department software.
• Ability to apply accounting principles to the maintenance of standard fiscal and accounting records.
• Ability to maintain detailed and accurate records of inventory and accounting transactions
• Ability to make arithmetic computations and tabulations rapidly and accurately.
• Ability to understand and follow verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to prepare simple reports.
• Ability to operate adding machines, calculators, bookkeeping machines, data entry terminals, personal computers and other standard office and accounting machines.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with supervisors and fellow employees.
• Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with competing priorities and varied responsibilities.
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively to develop win-win solution.
• Ability to evaluate the impact of alternative courses of action and evaluate circumstances of an innovative, new, or unprecedented nature

Benefits Package Summary General Employee Hired On Or After 10/01/23

City-Paid Medical Benefits:

• Group Health Insurance: The City pays for 100% of the cost for single coverage for full-time employees and 66.66% of cost for Dependent/Family Coverage. Upon retirement and separation from City employment, employee receives a monthly stipend of $350 per month, applicable toward retiree health coverage.
• Life Insurance: $30,000
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D): $10,000
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through Cigna Behavioral

Retirement:

• Employee Contribution = 8%
• Vesting = 10 Years
• Normal Retirement Benefit = 2.5% of pensionable earnings for each year of creditable service
• Average Final Compensation (AFC) = 3 best consecutive earning years
• Maximum Benefit = 80% of AFC, not to exceed $80,000.
• Normal Retirement = Age 62 and ten (10) years of creditable service
• Early Retirement = Age 57 and ten (10) years of creditable service, 3% annual reduction for each year prior to normal retirement age
• 13th check based on monthly retirement, payable if the pension plan funding status is equal to or greater than 100%. Paid in December each year following retirement
• Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) = 4 years/48 months maximum
• DROP Interest Rate = 4%, compounded annually

Longevity:

• Based on successful completion of full-time, continuous service with the City, employee shall receive the following: Years of Creditable Service Longevity Benefit* 10 Years 2.5% 15 Years 2.5% 20 Years 5.0% * Longevity Benefit calculated on employee's base rate of pay