Senior Account Clerk

Senior Account Clerk

This is a continuous filing exam. Next filing cut-offs are at 5 : 00 pm on : 11 / 10 / 25, 12 / 1 / 25, 12 / 15 / 25 (final).

Under general supervision, Senior Account Clerks are responsible for advanced clerical accounting duties involving the preparation, maintenance, review, auditing, and processing of financial and statistical records, reports, and claims. Incumbents may serve as lead workers and / or perform the more complex tasks in the work unit where significant independent judgment and decision-making is required.

Knowledge of principles of lead work responsibilities and leadership, employee training techniques and methods, general principles, procedures, terminology and practices used in financial and statistical clerical record keeping including posting, computing totals, reconciling accounts, and reviewing balance sheets, general accounting principles, including a basic understanding of debits and credits, principles and practices of customer service, arithmetic to make calculations and give correct change, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, decimals, and fractions, general business computer applications including spreadsheet, database and word-processing software, correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary usage, standard methods of filing (alphabetic, numeric, chronological) and record keeping, appropriate letter and memo format.

Ability to lead and train subordinate staff, prepare a variety of clerical accounting reports using spreadsheet, database and word-processing applications, track / reconcile information between accounts and general ledgers, understand, apply and explain departmental policies and procedures, accurately proofread details, noting and detecting errors, work independently and carry out assignments with minimal supervision, prioritize work and meet deadlines, for self and others, elicit information from inside / outside sources, operate office equipment such as computer terminals, typewriters, printers, calculators, scanners, adding machines, cash registers, copiers, radios, telephones, and fax machines, calculate solutions to math problems, and post and make arithmetical computations rapidly and accurately, using addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, percentages, decimals, and fractions, understand and explain procedural manuals, policy guidelines, etc., deal tactfully with people, communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, read, write and speak English at a level necessary for successful job performance, establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

Minimum qualifications either : two years of paid, full-time experience employed by Sacramento County in the class of Account Clerk or three years of paid, full-time experience preparing or reconciling financial or statistical records. Note : completion of 30 semester units (45 quarter units) including two mathematics, bookkeeping, or accounting courses, from an accredited college or business school may be substituted for one year of the required experience. Part-time experience is converted to full-time on the basis of 173.6 hours = 21.7 days = 1 work month.

Probationary period for this classification is six (6) months.