Account Clerk I​/Community Programs- Finance

EXAM NUMBER

Y0577A-EA

OPEN COMPETITIVE - EMERGENCY

The application filing period will begin on Friday, November 21, 2025, at 8:00 a.m. (PT) and will remain open on a continuous basis. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Please note that the application window may close without prior notice once a sufficient number of qualified candidates has been received.

NO OUT-OF-CLASS EXPERIENCE OR WITHHOLDS ARE ALLOWED FOR THIS EXAMINATION.

The LA County Board of Supervisors recently declared a local state of emergency for homelessness, and the County is working to revise and expand our response to help all who are affected. We are looking for qualified and passionate individuals to help us in the mission of addressing issues like housing, mental health, and substance use. If you are looking for a new career that will directly benefit the population of LA County, this may be the opportunity for you.

Department of Health Services Community Programs (Housing for Health for Homelessness) and Office of Diversion and Reentry are seeking qualified candidates to fill Account Clerk I vacancies related to the homelessness crisis.

Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment. During your initial work period ends, you will be assessed on your work performance. This assessment will be weighted 100% and those who successfully pass the assessment will be considered for permanent appointment as Account Clerk I.

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) is the second largest municipal health system in the nation. Through its unified system of 23 health centers and four hospitals—and expanded network of community partner clinics—DHS annually provides direct care for over 500,000 patients, employs over 23,000 staff, and has an annual budget of over $8.4 billion. Through affiliations with UCLA, USC, and CDU, DHS hospitals are training sites for physicians in various medical specialties.

DHS also runs the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency and the County's 911 system, Housing for Health, and the Office of Diversion and Re-entry, each with a role in connecting vulnerable populations to supportive housing. For more information, visit the DHS website.

To advance the health of our patients and our communities by providing extraordinary care.

Performs accounting clerical work in the maintenance of accounting records within a comprehensive established framework of procedures, under general supervision.

• A departmental accounting system having approximately 200 appropriation and revenues accounts and cost centers.
• A segment of a general accounting system having approximately 2,000 appropriation, fund, proprietary, and revenue accounts and cost centers.
• An accounts payable, accounts receivable, or trust accounting system having approximately 5,000 active accounts.
• A general accounting system or segment thereof having approximately 100,000 appropriation, fund, proprietary and revenue accounts and cost centers.
• An accounts payable, accounts receivable, or trust accounting system having approximately 100,000 accounts.
• Serves as a clerical assistant to a higher level in-charge accounting position with day-to-day responsibility for operation of the accounting system.

Performs 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 work within a comprehensive established framework of procedures, including: sorting, coding, verifying, and filing financial documents; posting by hand, machine, or through computer input; balancing to controlling accounts; and locating and tracing posting and coding errors; preparing standard reports; reconciling bank accounts; and other related tasks.

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