Account Clerk I

Syracuse City School District•Syracuse, NY

55d•Onsite

About The Position

The Syracuse City School District is seeking an Account Clerk I for its Accounting Department. This role involves specialized clerical work in maintaining financial records and accounts of some variety and complexity. The Account Clerk I applies routine and standardized account keeping practices in posting and balancing to journals, ledgers, and other records of financial transactions, following established methods and procedures. Work is performed under close supervision, with instructions provided on new assignments and work reviewed through verification of financial records and statements. Records are subject to local and state auditing. Supervisory responsibilities are not a function of this class. Incumbents may be required to pass a background check.

Requirements

One (1) year of full time work experience, or its part time equivalent, which must include as a regularly occurring function of the job some financial account keeping duties, such as reconciling bank statements, posting to ledgers, making entries to journals, checking vouchers and purchase orders for arithmetical accuracy and completeness; or, the processing and maintenance of fiscal transactions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management and statistical data and records.
Graduation from a regionally accredited college or university with an Associate’s Degree in Business Administration or Finance.
Successful completion of three (3) semester credit hours in college level Accounting, Business Administration or Finance from a regionally accredited college, university, or business school.
Ability to use common office equipment including equipment having alphanumeric keyboards, photocopiers, and CRT's.

Nice To Haves

Good knowledge of the principles and practices of keeping financial accounts and records.
Good knowledge of standard office terminology, procedures and equipment.
Ability to make arithmetic computations rapidly and accurately.
Ability to apply bookkeeping principles to assigned ledgers and subsidiary journals.
Ability to compile and prepare financial and statistical reports from original Entry data.
Ability to learn the operation of adding and calculating machines as well as other office machines, if previous work experience did not require these skills.

Responsibilities

Processing invoice processing, processing/updating vendor and adherence to payment terms
Producing bills/invoices, customer account management, reconciling payments, resolving discrepancies
Collecting/depositing cash, balancing cash drawer, reconciling discrepancies
Posting to journals or subsidiary ledgers from records of appropriations, disbursements, invoices for purchases, payroll, receipts or any other original entry media, either manually or by use of a data entry terminal or personal computer (PC).
Computing or assisting in computing and balancing payrolls, including figuring overtime, deductions, garnishes and adjustments.
Receiving remittances or fees by mail or in person: verifying amount, issue receipts, computes interest and penalties where applicable, post amounts to appropriate ledgers.
Assisting in maintaining labor, material and cost of operations records.
Assisting in verifying and reconciling account balances according to prescribed procedures.
Assisting in reviewing and checking financial records for arithmetical accuracy and completeness.
Operating adding, calculating and other standard office machines.
Performing a variety of routine clerical tasks such as sorting, indexing and filing requisitions vouchers, payrolls, ledger cards and other materials to be maintained in a central filing system.
Using a data entry terminal, or personal computer PC for filing or obtaining information.