ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN II - EMERGENCY APPOINTMENT (HOMELESSNESS)

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Requirements

• Performs duties in a segment of an accounting or related area including general accounting, expenditures and accounts payable, revenue and accounts receivable, cost and fund accounting, budgetary support, accounting systems, auditing, accounting cycle, capital asset, and statement and report preparation.
• Supervises and participates in the work of an accounting unit composed of accounting technical and clerical personnel involved in the day-to-day operation of an accounting system which encompasses the full cycle of accounting activities ranging from establishing the accounting and subsidiary records, reconciling the ledgers, preparing adjustments and closing entries and preparing reports.
• May serve as technical specialist in a central accounting agency with a narrow range of highly technical responsibilities such as those involving the control of major Countywide groupings of County funds, budget controlling accounts or revenue accounts, the consolidation of the simpler County-wide reports, or the preparation of a variety of specialized, mandatory accounting reports within established content and format.
• Classifies and records a variety of accounting transactions which may require the interpretation of County guidelines and policy and may involve processing encumbrances, cost account assignment, reviewing and approving invoices for vendor payments, preparing invoices for services rendered, processing employee expense claims for reimbursements, cash receipts and reimbursing revolving funds.
• Apportions expenditures, revenues, deferred revenues/advances of funds, and the collection of accounts receivable within the appropriate accounting period; determines the amount and distribution of accrued revenues and expenses and depreciation of assets.
• Reviews trial balances of accounts and reconciles to the Auditor-Controller's Countywide Accounting and Purchasing System (eCAPS) and subsidiary ledgers and trust funds; provides explanations for reconciling items.
• Prepares journal vouchers, internal vouchers, cash receipts and other accounting documents for the purposes of making adjusting entries and for allocation of revenues and expenditures.
• Prepares routine statistical, cost, and operating reports, statements of financial condition, budget compilations, and routine final accountings of revenue and expenditures for construction and other projects.
• Makes complex cost distributions, apportions indirect costs to cost centers, and determines overhead rates in accordance with established bases and techniques.
• Performs technical accounting work such as posting to ledgers, journals and registers; coding documents; preparing deposits; and reconciling differences incidental to performing technical accounting assignments.
• Supervises a unit of technical specialists engaged in examining estate accounting records for completeness, accuracy, and propriety; prepares interim and final accounting reports of estate financial condition for use as a basis in probate proceedings and the distribution of estate assets pursuant to probate decrees.
• Prepares claims for reimbursement of expenditures for large scale categorical aid programs involving complex claiming procedures.
• Routinely accesses and utilizes a personal computer using established applications including word processing, spreadsheets, eCAPS and accounting applications software.

Qualifications

***Experience at the level of Accounting Technician I is defined as performing paraprofessional accounting work under general supervision in preparing, processing, balancing, and maintaining fiscal records requiring substantive knowledge of general accounting procedures.

You may still qualify even if your job title isn’t exactly the same as the ones listed. What matters is that your experience is at a similar level — meaning your job involves similar responsibilities, requires comparable skills and knowledge, and takes place within a similar organizational structure. Please provide a clear explanation of your experience to demonstrate that it is at the appropriate level.

• Experience working for a public homelessness services agency, such as LAHSA, within the last 6 months.
• Six (6) months of experience in governmental/fund accounting.
• Six (6) months of experience in account reconciliations.

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