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Job Description
Definition & Distinguishing Characteristics
Are you ready to take the lead in a fast-paced payroll environment? In this role, you’ll oversee and guide a team responsible for processing payroll, managing deductions, accruals, and ensuring accurate wage reporting. You’ll also coordinate employee benefits related to payroll, analyze complex payroll data, and handle specialized technical tasks. Your expertise will play a vital role in keeping operations running smoothly while providing essential support to management. If you're detail-oriented, organized, and ready to step into a leadership role, we want to hear from you! If you're interested, check out the job description pages HERE.
This promotional opportunity is available to current regular employees within the Auditor-Controller’s Office . Only individuals currently employed in this department are eligible to apply.
What's this Job All About?
As a Senior Accountant Auditor, you’ll lead complex audits, manage financial reporting, and ensure compliance with laws and policies. You’ll guide staff, improve processes, and work across departments to support the County’s financial integrity. This role is key to maintaining transparency, streamlining operations, and supporting critical public services through accurate and responsible fiscal management.
How do we make a difference?
The Auditor-Controller’s Office ensures the County’s financial integrity through accurate accounting, auditing, and property tax administration. Our dedicated team supports vital public services by managing funds responsibly and efficiently, helping maintain transparency and trust across all County operations.
Do our values speak to you?- Deliver WOW Customer Service to Others & Our Community
- Embrace and Drive Change
- Create FUN and a Little Weirdness
- Be Adventurous, Creative, Open-Minded
- Pursue Growth and Learning
- Build Open and Honest Relationships with Communication
- Foster a Positive Team and Family Spirit
- Be Passionate and Determined
- Be Humble and Kind
What are the benefits?- A beautiful, safe community in which to work and serve.
- A caring, empathetic, & fun work family that you will be welcomed into - where we work hard, but play hard, too!
- A job with WORK-LIFE BALANCE
- Competitive salary commensurate with education & experience
- A LIFETIME PAYCHECK (3% @ 60 for Classic Members and 2% @ 62 for New Members) - As long as you work for 5 years and vest in the CalPERS system, you will receive a retirement paycheck for the rest of your life.
- Amazing health care BENEFITS at NO COST to you - Unless you choose a premium health care plan.
- Authentically kind and engaged leadership who truly enjoy developing staff.
- 457 Deferred Compensation.
- PAID vacation, PAID holidays (13), and PAID leave if you get sick.
- Vacation Parity - Previous service with a public agency counts towards vacation accrual at Colusa County. A public agency includes cities, counties, districts, military and similar entities. To learn more about vacation parity please see our benefit summary.
COME WORK FOR THE COUNTY OF COLUSA: WE'RE WAITING FOR YOU!
Supervision & Examples of Duties
SUPERVISION RECEIVED :
Receives direction from the Auditor-Controller.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED :
Exercises technical and functional supervision over assigned staff.
Qualifications
The following requirements generally demonstrate possession of the minimum requisite knowledge and ability necessary to perform the duties of the position.
Experience:
Five years of experience comparable to a Payroll Specialist with Colusa County.
Training:
Associates degree in accounting, business administration or a related field.
Supplemental Information
The salary range above consists of 15 steps. Steps 1-6 are annual merit steps with approximately 5% difference between each step, based on successful performance. Steps 7-15 are additional merit steps, requiring 2 years of satisfactory performance at the previous step. Steps 7-14 provide 2.5% increases, while Step 15 offers a 5% increase. The final salary offered will depend on the applicant's experience and qualifications, ranging from steps 1 to 15.
Colusa County offers an excellent benefit package. For a summary of benefits, please click here: 2025 Benefit Summary
Closing Date/Time: 9/28/2025 11:59 PM Pacific -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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County of Colusa
Show moreThe County of Colusa, nestled in the heart of the Sacramento Valley approximately 60 miles north of Sacramento and 100 miles northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, is a vibrant community rich in history and tradition and, offering a wonderful environment in which to live, work and play. The County, with approximately 22,000 residents, includes two incorporated cities; Colusa, which is the county seat, and Williams. The local economy is largely agriculturally based producing crops valued at more than $900 million each year and exporting farm commodities throughout the United States and to about seventy countries worldwide.
County government business is still conducted within the antebellum court house which was built in 1861 and has operated continuously ever since. The County’s annual General Fund budget is roughly $28 million; the total budget is about $78 million. The workforce is comprised of approximately 350 full-time equivalent positions that are assigned to five represented bargaining units.
Colusa County also offers many diverse outdoor recreational opportunities and is considered to be a sportsman’s paradise. The Sacramento River meanders through the County. Portions of five national protected areas are located within the county: Butte Sink Wildlife Refuge; Colusa National Wildlife Refuge; Delevan National Wildlife Refuge; Mendocino National Forest and; Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Recreational opportunities such as hiking, bird watching, camping and water sports abound. The Sacramento River and local lakes, offer world class fishing
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