Clerk Accounting II (Maintenance)

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools • Nashville, TN

2d • $20

About The Position

The Senior Account Clerk is responsible for providing financial, administrative and clerical services to the department. This includes opening department mail, data entry, triaging invoices for processing, manning the accounts payable mailbox by printing invoices and responding to inquiries of payment status to ensure timely feedback to vendors, employees, and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Any combination of education and experience equivalent to graduation from high school and three years varied and increasingly responsible experience in keeping or reviewing financial records

Nice To Haves

• Ability to maintain confidentiality concerning financial files
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Team player
• Effective verbal and listening, communications skills
• Demonstrate sound work ethics
• Respectful, honest and trustworthy
• Ability to perform office work with speed and accuracy, establish and maintain effective working relationships, great customer service
• Knowledge of departmental accounting methods and procedures; practices and terminology used in fiscal record keeping work.

Responsibilities

• Open department mail and distribute daily.
• Sort, date stamp, and distribute invoices for the accounts payable workflow process.
• Handle the accounts payable electronic mail box which has a huge influx of activities.
• Respond to accounts payable inquiries via email and phone calls.
• Perform data entry into Microsoft Access Database.
• Manage short vendor forms for approval.
• Procure department orders and cover department phones as needed.
• Perform other clerical duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees