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County of Los Angeles · 1 month ago

ACCOUNT CLERK I/COMMUNITY PROGRAMS- FINANCE

Los Angeles County, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

1+ years exp

The County of Los Angeles is seeking qualified candidates to fill Account Clerk I vacancies related to the homelessness crisis. The role involves performing accounting clerical work in maintaining accounting records under general supervision, contributing to the mission of addressing homelessness and related issues in the community.

CommunitiesGovernmentNon Profit

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Serves as a clerical assistant to a higher level in-charge accounting position which has day-to-day responsibility for operation of the accounting system

Does bookkeeping and associated financial-clerical work, spending a major portion of time performing a variety of tasks involved in maintaining the accounting records of a small general accounting system, or an accounts receivable, accounts payable or trust accounting system

Performs the work within a comprehensive established framework of procedures; such work involves (1) performing all of the following tasks: sorting, coding, verifying, and filing financial documents, posting by hand, machine or, through the initiation of computer input, to registers and subsidiary ledgers, and balancing to controlling accounts, and (2) performing at least some of the following: locating and tracing both posting and coding errors; listing errors and required adjustments; taking trial balances; assisting in the reconciling of accounts with the Auditor's abstract; compiling prescribed financial-statistical data and preparing highly standardized reports such as sales tax, mileage, and collection reports or other reports reflecting current account balances; and reconciling bank accounts affecting the balances of a large group of funds or revenue accounts and involving a large number of transactions

Perform other work such as preparing payrolls or requisitions providing that a major portion of the work involves a bookkeeping assignment of the character described elsewhere as needed

Perform more difficult and complex bookkeeping work under close supervision or within a comprehensive established framework of detailed procedures as needed

Serve as lead of a group of bookkeeping machine operators as needed

Does inventory control work of a strictly clerical nature spending full time in maintaining a large scale system of stock and equipment accounts and performing associated work within an established framework of procedures; such work includes: checking and coding documents reflecting stock and equipment transactions, posting such transactions to stock and equipment ledgers manually, by bookkeeping machine or through the initiation of computer input, verifying the accuracy of stock and equipment accounts by balancing to receipts, issues, invoices, and statements of physical inventory and reconciling to the Auditor's property listings, reporting unexplained discrepancies to superiors, and preparing statistical reports reflecting inventory operations

Perform incidental tasks such as preparing requisitions, receiving reports or other documents such as those describing equipment or consigning equipment to surplus as needed

Participates in routine office and field checks of departmental installations to verify the clerical accuracy of accounting documents they submit such as petty cash collection reports, cash register receipts, and golf course starter sheets; checking procedures are well established and closely supervised and only a few kinds of transactions affecting a small number of accounts are examined; such work involves: checking clerical accuracy of postings and totals on reports, verifying postings with supporting documents; determining whether prescribed procedures have been followed, and listings discrepancies and required corrective action and tracing errors to their source

Performs office machine operating work which may require the skilled use of desk calculators, bookkeeping machines, adding machines and typewriters

Routinely access such office equipment as video display terminals, word processors, or personal computers to input data, perform computations, or produce documents not requiring the formatting or programming of such equipment as needed

Qualification

BookkeepingDouble entry accountingFinancial record maintenanceData entryStatistical reportingClerical skills

Required

One year's clerical experience in bookkeeping assisting in the maintenance of a double entry accounting system and associated subsidiary records involving coding transactions and posting and balancing of ledgers, journals, and registers

One year's clerical experience in the maintenance of financial or statistical records involving the coding, recording, checking tabulations and computation of data and completion of a high school level course in bookkeeping or elementary accounting

Include a copy of your official high school transcripts from an accredited institution within seven (7) calendar days of filing your application online if qualifying under Option II