Finance
Responsibilities
The Finance Division is responsible for preparing, forecasting, analyzing, recording, summarizing, and reporting financial transactions to the public and private sectors. Finance develops administrative and accounting policies and procedures for city-wide use. In addition, the division ensures the integrity of the city’s accounting system.
Services Provided
Accounts Payable
This includes processing all vendor payments for the City of Jackson once the contractual obligations have been fulfilled and the vendor payments have been approved and processed by the originating city department.
Do NOT send invoices directly to the accounts payable division. All invoices should be sent to the Department or Division that issues your business the original Purchase Order (PO) or Contract. If your business has not been paid for goods or services rendered to the City of Jackson within 45 days, please email us at invoiceshelp@jacksonms.gov.
General Ledger and Fixed Assets
This includes the preparation of the City of Jackson's annual audit, grant reporting, and maintenance of fixed asset records.
Payroll
This includes processing weekly and bi-weekly payroll checks. This section pays approximately 2,200 employees.
Do you have an unpaid invoice?
After completing work for the City of Jackson, please submit your invoice to the city department that issued your business the purchase order or contract. Each city department is responsible for collecting, reviewing, and processing their own invoices.
However, if you have an invoice that has gone unpaid for >45 days, we invite you to email us at invoiceshelp@jacksonms.gov. Please provide us with a copy of your invoice(s), the dollar amount owed, and the associated purchase order or contract number.