Account Clerk Typist - Temporary- Multilingual Department RB #26-178

Buffalo Public Schools•Buffalo, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Account Clerk Typist performs routine clerical work maintaining and checking financial accounts and records, including substantial part-time use of alpha-numeric keyboard equipment such as personal computers and data terminals. The role involves standardized account-keeping practices. Work is routine, with additional and more complex duties assigned as experience is gained; these do not reach the complexity of senior-level work. Work is reviewed through immediate observation, cross-checking, or another step in the account-keeping process. This is a temporary position in the Buffalo Board of Education Department of Multilingual Education at PS #004, 425 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, New York. Civil Service residency requirements apply. The salary range is $42,909–$48,927. Applicants must submit an online application and receive a confirmation email to verify receipt.

Requirements

For promotional applicants: continuous and permanent status for one year in a city department as a Clerk, Complaint Clerk, Junior Data Control Clerk, Junior Traffic Clerk, Stenographer, or Typist.
Applicants must have completed a course in Bookkeeping or Accounting, or have one year of full-time experience maintaining and checking financial accounts and records.
Open competitive applicants must have a high school diploma, GED, or equivalency diploma, including or supplemented by a course in Bookkeeping or Accounting; or a high school diploma, GED, or equivalency diploma and two years of full-time experience maintaining and checking financial accounts and records; or an equivalent combination within the stated limits.
Verifiable part-time experience is prorated toward full-time experience requirements.
Proof of education must be presented at appointment.
Working knowledge of office terminology, procedures, and equipment.
Arithmetic ability and clerical aptitude.
High degree of accuracy.
Knowledge of payroll compilation and account-keeping practices and principles.
Ability to understand and interpret written, statistical, and tabular material.
Ability to follow directions and instructions.
Ability to operate alpha-numeric keyboard equipment, including personal computers, and use application programs.
Physical condition commensurate with the duties of the position.

Responsibilities

Maintain account-keeping records and post entries to ledgers.
Reconcile account balances with yearly control accounts and general ledger balances.
Assist with preparing payrolls, tax and assessment rolls, tax bills, and financial statements.
Prepare, process, and review purchase orders, vouchers, bills, and fiscal claims.
Perform simple audits, such as checking voucher amounts against receiving copies of orders.
Maintain simple cost accounts and cost records, and transfer account information to spreadsheets when required.
Balance daily journal sheets.
Prepare and make bank deposits and check them against bank statements.
Disburse petty cash funds and process service orders to replenish petty cash when required.
Operate personal computers, calculating machines, checkwriting machines, and other office equipment.
Enter and retrieve data from computer records, including receipts, payrolls, requisitions, vouchers, property data, values, exemptions, and other materials.
Assist with budget requests and maintain inventory records.
Assist with periodic management and control reports.
Maintain and update employee payroll and paid leave records.
Answer telephones and provide information about departmental functions and activities to the public, vendors, or contractors when required.
Maintain clerical reports concerning office activities and functions when required.
Input billing and maintain files for miscellaneous charges, data, records, and information using personal computer programs.
Perform related duties as required.