Senior Accounting Assistant - Countywide Pool​/Temporary And Positions

Senior Accounting Assistants

This county‑wide recruitment will establish a Senior Accounting Assistant Countywide Candidate Pool of qualified applicants for Regular and Temporary Senior Accounting Assistant openings across multiple departments. The candidate pool will be used to fill current and future vacancies throughout the county.

Riverside County is seeking qualified individuals for Senior Accounting Assistant roles. Some Senior Accounting Assistant job openings may not be filled using this candidate pool and will require you to apply separately.

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• Applicants will answer questions about location preferences and work experience.
• Competitive applicants (based on specialized skills) will be referred for interviews.
• Applicants will receive email notification when their application is no longer considered due to Candidate Pool expiration.
• Some positions may require a law‑enforcement background investigation.

• Prepare reports on the status of service accounts, contracts, grants, fee receipts, entitlements, reimbursed programs, accounts receivable, accounts payable, trust accounts; prepare regular reports of revenues and expenditures which are sent directly to management.
• Answer questions that involve searching for and abstracting technical data and detailed explanations of laws, policies or procedures, referring matters requiring policy decisions to a superior.
• Develop or assist in the development of software applications to collect and manipulate accounting data and fiscal information; prepare spreadsheets compiling revenue activity and trends for management use; reformat data or create specific reports, charts or graphs.
• Assist staff in solving, or personally respond to, complex and difficult inquiries; train and orient new staff members; review and correct work.
• Provide technical supervision to staff maintaining and compiling computer-generated spreadsheets, tracking incoming revenue, auditing daily deposits and reconciliations, preparing daily deposits and reconciliation and revenue distribution reports, posting and reconciling trust funds and revenue ledgers.
• Supervise a small number of lower-level Accounting Assistants and clerical support staff.

OPTION I – One year of experience as an Accounting Assistant II with the County of Riverside or an equivalent position.

OPTION II – Three years of experience in the review, reconciliation, and preparation of financial accounts. One year of the required experience may be substituted with the completion of 12 semester or 18 quarter units in accounting, finance, auditing, taxation, financial reporting, business finance, financial statement analysis, or closely related coursework from an accredited college or university.

All Options:
Knowledge of basic methods, practices, and terminology of fiscal record keeping, basic business mathematics, checks and money orders, balancing cash and checks against records, handling and recording of monies, basic mathematical/fiscal computer applications, basic payroll practices and procedures (including FLSA requirements), accounting systems, procedures, regulations and source documents, general bookkeeping and audit methodology, terminology and standards. Ability to make arithmetical computations quickly and accurately;

operate standard office equipment; read and understand written and oral instructions; use computerized accounting systems; prepare data; understand and maintain financial accounting files; recognize and correct computational errors; compare, post and transfer numbers; prepare routine and special financial reports; communicate effectively; learn County accounting systems; establish effective working relationships; perform a wide variety of difficult and responsible financial/accounting duties; review and consolidate records and summarize into reports;

analyze data and draw logical conclusions; review and evaluate the work of lower-level staff.

All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of a pre‑employment physical…