Business License Tax Auditor

THIS IS A NEW ASSEMBLED EXAMINATION. The eligible list resulting from this examination will cancel any existing list and may last approximately one year, but can be extended. Applications will only be accepted online.

Supplemental Questionnaire: A properly completed Supplemental Questionnaire must be submitted with each application. Applications and Supplemental Questionnaires must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Failure to submit the Supplemental Questionnaire will result in disqualification. Supplemental questionnaire will be used to further verify minimum qualifications

Experience:

The equivalent of one year of full-time experience in the class of Auditor in the Alameda County classified service.

Experience:

The equivalent of two years of full-time professional accounting or auditing experience, or the equivalent of one year of full-time accounting/auditing experience in a City or County business license office.

Education:

A bachelor’s degree in accounting from an accredited college or university and a minimum of one year of auditing experience. 

License:

Possession of a valid California Motor Vehicle Operator's license.

Special Requirement: 

Must be available to attend business related conferences both on a single day and multiple day conferences, both locally and with travel, including overnight stays. 

NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications in the announcement of an examination.

Knowledge of:

• Principles and practices of accounting, including procedures, systems, financial statements and methods of reporting.
• Principles and practices of auditing.
• Principles and practices of business computer applications, including audit controls and terminology.
• Legal and procedural guidelines for accounting and financial transactions and record keeping and interpretation of business and utility users tax regulations.
• Alameda County Business License and Utility Users Tax Ordinance.

• Prepare clear, concise and complete statistical and financial reports.
• Evaluate financial statements, accounts and reports to ensure compliance accurate reconciliation of data.
• Apply recognized auditing quality assurance standards to auditing assignments
• Interpret and explain County business license and utility use's tax regulations
• Perform comparative analyses of financial data and reports and arrive at correct conclusions.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the performance of required duties.

THE EXAMINATION WILL CONSIST OF the following steps: 1) A review of candidates' application and suppplemental questionnaire to verify possession of minimum requirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for the class will move on to the next step in the examination process. 2) A situational exercise will be weighted as 60% and an oral interview which will be weighted as 40% of the candidate's final examination score. The oral interview may contain situational exercises. CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACH PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION. We reserve the right to make changes to the announced examination components.

Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit. Such a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equal opportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designed to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform duties of the vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted and specific to the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, the eligible list may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Other recruitments many be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or for other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.
To learn more about our recruitment and selection process, please visit the “What You Need to Know” section of our website, www.acgov.org/hrs.

All notices related to County recruitments for which you have applied will be sent/delivered via email. Please add @acgov.org and alamedacountyHR@acgov.org as accepted addresses to any email blocking or spam filtering program you may use. If you do not do this, your email blocking or spam filtering program may block receipt of the notices regarding your application for recruitments. You are also strongly advised to regularly log into your County of Alameda online application account to check for notices that may have been sent to you. All email notices that will be sent to you will also be kept in your personal online application account. You will be able to view all of your notices in your online application account by clicking on the "My applications" button on the Current Job Openings page.

Please take the steps recommended above to ensure you do not miss any notices about a recruitment for which you have applied. The County of Alameda is not responsible for notices that are not read, received or accessed by any applicant for a County recruitment.

NOTE: All notices are generated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the email box alamedacountyHR@acgov.org are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. All notices are generated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the email box are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. If you have questions please go to our website at www.acgov.org/hrs. You may also contact the Human Resources Analyst listed on the job announcement for the recruitment for which you have applied.

Debra Robinson, Human Resources Analyst III

Human Resource Services, County of Alameda

510-272-6437

Alameda County is an Equal Opportunity Employer