Principal Account Clerk

Sullivan County Community College•Loch Sheldrake, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This is highly important account keeping work involving responsibility for the frequent exercise of independent judgment in planning and managing complex account keeping, checking, coding and clerical activities and independently performing the more responsible and complex functions. The work is performed under general supervision and in accordance with outlined objectives, policies and detailed procedures. Difficult technical or policy problems are referred to a supervisor for decision or review of judgment and recommendations are made. Supervision may be exercised over the work of assigned clerical or account clerical staff.

Requirements

Graduation from a college or university with a Bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting or related field
Graduation from a college or university with an Associate's degree in business administration, accounting or related field and two (2)years of progressively responsible experience in maintaining or checking financial records or reports
Graduation from a high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma and four (4) years of progressively responsible experience
Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in maintaining or checking financial records or reports
An equivalent combination of training and experience

Nice To Haves

Successful completion of coursework in business administration, accounting or a related field at a college or university, may be substituted for the required experience with three (3) semester credit hours being equivalent to three (3) months of experience for a maximum of twelve (12) semester credit hours.

Responsibilities

Plans, assigns and reviews the maintaining and checking of a wide variety of financial records and reports and instructs employees in the specialized details of this work
Revises and develops improved procedures and methods and installs those approved by superiors
Handles complaints, suggests solutions to problems and conducts correspondence
Assists superiors in the preparation of budget information, collection of data, compiling of statistics and solution of personnel problems
Maintains complex activity control records, schedules work loads and flow and coordinates the work with that of other units
Compiles, prepares and analyzes complex labor, material and operational cost records and reports
May supervise subordinate clerical/account clerical staff
Classifies a complex variety of receipts and expenditures and distributes costs records according to a prescribed code
Compiles, prepares and analyzes a variety of complex financial and statistical records and reports
Supervises and reviews the checking of complex account-keeping records and reports for arithmetical and clerical accuracy, completeness and proper extension
Supplies data for budget, recommends budget estimates and assists in maintaining budget control
Operates computing, calculating, check writing and other office machines
Performs a variety of standard keyboarding tasks, including typing correspondence, records and reports