Extra Help - Account Clerk

Full Job Description

Applications will be reviewed by Tulare County Human Resources & Development.

As extra help positions become available, County departments with the job openings select the most qualified and appropriate applicant for the position available.

The number of hours and duration of employment varies by each assignment. Extra help employees may work in a variety of County departments in locations throughout the geographic county area.

The current Extra Help position is with the County Administration Office.

Extra help employees may not work more than 1,559 hours in any fiscal year from July to June. An extra help employee who mistakenly works in excess of 1,559 hours in a fiscal year does not become a probationary or regular employee.

Applications will be active for six months. If you are hired for extra help and you complete a work assignment and then you if you wish to be employed again, you must resubmit an Extra Help application online.

There are no benefits associated with extra help positions. See regular job specification for complete job duties and requirements.

Requirements

Maintain a variety of financial records.

Prepare financial reports.

Post expenditures, receipts or other data to appropriate ledgers or accounts.

Calculate payroll and maintain withholding and contribution records.

Reconcile bank statements.

Maintain running balances of accounts and fund ledgers.

Prepare trial balances.

Make adjusting entries.

Distribute costs to appropriate accounts.

Check and verify expenses on a variety of bills.

Read, check for completeness and accuracy and compare information on different reports, lists and forms.

May type documents, reports, lists and forms involving departmental transactions.

May perform a variety of general clerical duties in maintaining records and preparing reports.

May perform difficult or complex clerical bookkeeping work.

Make decisions regarding classification of source documents.

May maintain a variety of detailed financial records.

May analyze and interpret accounts and records.

May assist with posting and encumbrance procedures.

May maintain adjusting and closing entries and prepare trial balances.

May analyze and reconcile financial accounts and records.

Prepare claims for payment.

May complete difficult computations.

Provide information on various departmental procedures and functions.

May work with other departments in the preparation of payrolls and account payable expenditures.

May use personal computers and related automated equipment.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications are used as a guide for establishing the education, training, experience, special skills and/or license which are required and equivalent to the following.

Education:

• Equivalent to completion of the twelfth(12^th) grade.

Experience:

• One (1) year of general clerical bookkeeping experience.

Equivalencies for Experience:

• Or completion of an approved full charge bookkeeper program or other bookkeeping-office support program from an accredited business/community college or adult school.

Knowledge of:

• Basic bookkeeping procedures.
• Intermediate math.
• U.S. monetary system.

Skill/Ability to:

• Operate contemporary office equipment inclusive of computer, keyboard, and all applicable electronic equipment.
• Write and print clearly, uniformly and legibly.
• Accurately post figures to various ledgers, documents and records.
• Proofread for errors in numbers, grammar and spelling.
• Read and compare information in reports, memos, lists and forms.
• Reconcile work daily.
• Deal tactfully with the public and other employees.
• Organize work in proper step-by-step order.
• Remain flexible to changes in workloads and stress of meeting deadlines.
• Follow verbal and written instructions.

DESIRABLE EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS

Knowledge of:

• Legal descriptions of property.
• California Revenue and Taxation Codes.

Skill/Ability to: