Accounting Clerk II​/Cashier

Job Title and Department

Bursar, PM – Regular

Open Date: 06‑24‑2025
Salary: $42,770 – $44,812

Under general supervision, performs moderately complex accounting clerical or bookkeeping tasks to support accounts payable/receivable, payroll, timekeeping, auditing and other accounting functions. Post journal entries, processes payments, and verifies accuracy of data.

• Operate the cashier window, including greets customers in person and by phone; answers questions and addresses concerns.
• Maintain a positive attitude with students, faculty, staff, and coworkers.
• Communicate concerns to management and follow up on customer issues.
• Perform cashiering activities such as completing check, cash, credit card transactions, issuing receipts, and balancing registers and receipts.
• Ensure proper handling and safeguards in processing customer transactions. Examine currency and checks to detect counterfeiting, forgery, or damaged money.
• Prepare currency for bank deposits or transfers such as endorsing checks, tallying totals of cash, charges and checks received, and preparing bank deposit slips.
• Operate automated equipment such as cash registers, charge terminals, computer terminals and other manual and automated office equipment.
• Provide general advisement in all aspects of student financial services (payment plans, fee payments, deadlines, refunds, dishonored payments, third‑party billing, etc.).
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• Mandatory overtime is required on occasion during peak periods.

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum one (1) year of accounting/cashiering experience required.
• General knowledge of cashiering function.
• Working knowledge of general accounting principles and procedures used in financial record‑keeping.
• Skilled in making accurate monetary transactions and in performing mathematical computations (e.g., account reconciliation).
• Ability to prepare written records and reports; to operate keyboards and calculators; to communicate effectively with customers and coworkers; to operate manual and automated office equipment, computer literacy required. People Soft ERP experience is a plus but not required.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment and multi‑task as necessary.

• None currently available.

• This is a Union position.

Benefits include medical, dental, prescription, long‑term disability, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, life insurance, paid time for sick leave, annual leave, personal leave, 12 paid holidays per year, tuition remission; employer‑funded pension and supplemental retirement accounts.

Bowie State University shall not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, age, ancestry or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, marital status or veteran status. All policies, programs, and activities of Bowie State University are and shall be in conformity with all pertinent Federal and state laws of nondiscrimination including, but not limited to:
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended;
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; the Equal Pay Act of 1963; the Age Discrimination Act;
Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990;
Federal Executive Order No. 11375; and Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Maryland. This commitment applies in all areas and embraces faculty, staff, and students.
Equal opportunity of access to academic and related programs shall be extended to all persons. Bowie State University shall have as its firm objective equal opportunity in recruitment and hiring, rate of pay, all other promotions, training, retention and dismissals, for all employees and applicants for employment. The University will stress equal access for employees and applicants for employment to all programs and services provided by the University both on and off campus.

The University will also provide equal opportunity and an atmosphere of nondiscrimination with respect to women…