Senior Account Clerk - Keyboard Specialist

How to Apply

Applicants must submit a Civil Service “Application for Employment and/or Examination” to Schuyler County Civil Service office. Applications WILL be accepted via email or fax. You may include a resume with your application; however, you may NOT substitute “See Resume” for completing any portion of the application form. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL BE DISAPPROVED.

At the present time, there is one full-time (35 hours/week) provisional opening in the Schuyler County Treasurer’s Office. The person hired will need to take a Civil Service test at a later date and be reachable on the list to gain permanency in the position.

Candidates must have been legal residents of Schuyler or a contiguous (Chemung, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins and Yates) county for at least one month immediately preceding the date of application. Preference in appointment may be given to a resident of the jurisdiction for which there is a vacancy.

The work involves responsibility for independently performing and/or supervising clerical duties in the maintenance and review of moderately difficult financial accounts and records. The work may require decision‑making as to methods to be used and classification of records and accounts. The incumbent will be responsible for entering and retrieving information from a computer database/spreadsheet using software. The work is performed under general supervision and the incumbent may train lower level clerical workers.

Supervision is not a responsibility of this class. Does related work as required.

• Reviews a variety of complex financial documents, classifies them and distributes items into a variety of accounts according to prescribed procedures and policies.
• Posts figures to appropriate accounts, makes all necessary adjustments in balances and verifies and reconciles balances.
• Renews status of accounts as adjustments are made and takes appropriate action as authorizing payment, issuing checks or preparing bills.
• Tracks audits and monitors a variety of accounts.
• Verifies adjustments are made to correct allocations and issues reports as required.
• Prepares complex financial or statistical summary reports.
• Prepares and checks accuracy of computations and completeness, supervises the preparation of daily, weekly, and monthly reports which are compiled into summary reports or claims for state or federal reimbursement.
• Prepares in final format accounting and financial statements, payrolls, statistical tabulations and data, form letters, memoranda, vouchers, reports, requisitions or data from various equipment as the source material.
• Prepares funds for deposit into book accounts, reconciles accounts, and prepares reports from information.
• Contacts clients, vendors or other agencies to obtain additional information.
• Provides information orally or in writing in response to inquiries on status of accounts and other financial matters.
• Receives payments in person or by mail.
• Processes, sorts, indexes, records and files a variety of control records and reports, or supervises the process.
• Performs complex payroll transactions or may prepare payroll for entire department and prepare all related reports.
• Operates calculator, peripheral computer equipment and other office equipment.
• May assist in preparation of figures and reports for use in budget preparation.
• Sets up installment agreements for property tax payments.
• Researches and prepares tax searches.
• Researches, prepares, and disburses bail money; orders office supplies.

• Possession of an Associates Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Graduation from high school or possession of an equivalency diploma and completion of a business certificate program that includes coursework in accounting and one year of clerical experience involving responsibility for maintaining and checking financial accounts and records.
• Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma and two years of clerical experience involving responsibility for maintaining and checking financial accounts and records.

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Your degree must have been awarded by a college or university accredited by a regional, national, or specialized agency recognized as an accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education/U.S. Secretary of Education. If your degree was awarded by an educational institution outside the United States and its territories, you must provide independent verification of equivalency. A list of acceptable companies who provide this service can be found on the Internet at http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..cfm
. You must pay the required evaluation fee.