About This Role
The Accounting Clerk receives and maintains routine records of cash receipts for payment of bills, fees, or taxes. This position requires considerable facility in counting money and making change, performing work according to established procedures, and includes monthly, quarterly, and yearly reconciliations.
Responsibilities
- Read difficult source documents and computer screens
- Compute invoices and issue checks for accounts payable and cash receipts
- Post receipts, vouchers, and routine journal entries
- Receive, count, balance, and report cash and negotiable instruments for payment of bills, fees, and taxes
- Count, reconcile, and band monies received
- Operate a computer, cash register, check endorser, validating machine, adding machine, and other office machines
- Use a 10-key calculator by touch
- Lift or move journals, ledgers, or records which can be heavy
- Work and communicate effectively with the public and vendors, inter- and intra-departmental personnel
- Sit and use a PC for extended periods
- Reconcile key reports and transactions
- Print computer reports and mail out customer bills
- Prepare financial statements for board reports
- File records and reports and perform related clerical work as assigned
Requirements
- Knowledge of methods, practices and terminology used in financial, statistical and clerical work
- Knowledge of the principles and practices of cashiering
- Knowledge of business arithmetic
- Some knowledge of office procedures, methods and equipment with particular reference to receiving and accounting for the receipt of cash
- Ability to learn to make rapid and accurate arithmetic computations
- Skill in the operation of validating machines, cash registers and other common office machines
- Ability to take oral or written instructions
- Graduation from a standard high school or GED
- One year of experience in accounts payable, accounts receivable, and cash handling duties
- Data entry, typing 40 words per minute, and use of a 10-key calculator are required
- CMFO – Certified Municipal Financial Officer will be required to obtain within two years
Nice to have:
- Good mathematical background preferred
- Some experience as a teller or cashier in handling money preferred
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off