Senior Account Clerk

County of Shasta•Redding, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Under general supervision, to perform complex bookkeeping or financial record keeping work involving the maintenance of financial and statistical records; may perform duties of a lead worker over a small clerical staff; and to perform related work as required. Senior Account Clerks generally have responsibility for a complex bookkeeping or financial record keeping function. With considerable latitude, incumbents maintain important financial and statistical records, prepare regular and special reports, and apply a wide knowledge of current operations, procedures, rules, and precedents to assigned tasks and interpret this information to the public and County staff members. Typically, incumbents are assigned responsibility for the style, format, final appearance, and accuracy of completed assignments. A Senior Account Clerk may be delegated responsibility to act for the supervisor in that person's absence. Positions in this class may be required to supervise clerical assistants with such supervision usually being limited to the assignment and review of work. The next higher class of Supervising Account Clerk has regular and continuing supervisory responsibilities for subordinate staff.

Requirements

One (1) year of experience comparable to an Account Clerk II with Shasta County.
Two (2) years of full-time clerical accounting experience performing financial, statistical, and/or computerized financial data processing/record keeping work in an office environment.
Office methods, procedures, and equipment
Procedures, practices, and terminology used in bookkeeping, financial and statistical record keeping
Principles and techniques of supervision and training may be required for certain assignments.
Assume responsibility for a complex bookkeeping or financial record keeping function
Make decisions in procedural matters
Prepare and maintain accurate and complete financial and statistical records and reports
Recommend work improvements as necessary
Train and schedule the work of subordinate staff may be required for some assignments
Enter and retrieve data on a computer terminal
Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted in the course of work

Responsibilities

Assembles, sorts, matches, checks, codes, dates, numbers, lists and logs financial and statistical data
Processes items such as claims invoices, purchase orders, payments, warrants and tax statements
Verifies, balances and adjusts accounts and records
Receives and accounts for money
Computes financial penalties
Computes, adjusts, interprets and maintains payroll records
Posts to and works with ledger accounts and other records
Breaks out charges and allocates to appropriate source
Processes information for transmittal to Data Processing
Reconciles bank statements and prepares deposits
Makes arithmetical calculations
Prepares checks and warrants
Keeps various financial and statistical records and prepares regular and special reports
Operates calculating and bookkeeping machines, computer terminal and other office equipment
Maintains files
May assist the public and other employees by answering questions and explaining financial and payroll procedures and financial record keeping requirements
If assigned, assists and provides supervision and training to subordinate employees