Clerk 3, Accounting

Hillsborough County Public Schools•Tampa, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Clerk 3, Accounting performs specialized accounting and bookkeeping work of an independent and complex nature entailing supervisory and/or delegated administrative responsibilities. All district employees must demonstrate regular and predictable attendance, support the district’s vision, mission, goals, and Strategic Plan, engage in civility, respect, and professionalism, and maintain the professional knowledge and skills necessary to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of their positions.

Requirements

Demonstrate regular and predictable attendance. Physical presence is a part of a reliable and predictable pattern of attendance.
Support the district’s vision, mission, goals, and Strategic Plan.
Engage in civility, respect, and professionalism.
Maintain the professional knowledge and skills necessary to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of their positions.
Basic computer skills.

Nice To Haves

Temporary bookkeeper

Responsibilities

Directs and/or monitors the maintenance of accounts and control of funds disbursed or received.
Prepares financial data required for effective management of the fiscal affairs of a section.
Utilizes considerable independent judgement and acquired knowledge and skills in the performance of broad accounting functions.
Plans, assigns, advises, informs, and/or supervises the work of subordinate employees in recording transactions to accounts receivable and payable, maintaining and reconciling journals, ledgers and other record books, and in preparing periodic financial and statistical statements, reports, and tabulations.
Maintains payroll transactions, worker’s compensation claims and payments, hospitalization claims and payments, and all social security reports.
Issues purchase orders, checks invoices, and audits fixed price scientific research contracts.
Prepares checks, reconciles departmental cashier reports, and classifies and records daily departmental receipts and disbursements into journals.
Totals and balances financial transactions and posts to general ledger, posts to control accounts, reconciles bank statements, prepares warrants for check requisitions.
Audits accounts, payrolls, Full Time Equivalent (FTE) information, and invoices of department for mathematical correctness and legal compliance.
Reconciles book balances with bank balances.
Conducts research and answers employee inquiries concerning appropriate financial matters.
Performs basic computer skills.
Performs any other duties as assigned.