Account Clerk IV - Hawaii Child Nutrition Program

About the role

The role of Account Clerk IV involves managing and maintaining financial records, preparing financial statements, and performing various administrative tasks.

Responsibilities

• Determines necessary entries to reflect information not yet recorded; closes and reconciles accounts;
• Sumsmarizes accounts and transfers balances to other accounts such as permanent asset, liability and capital accounts;
• Segregates and groups accounts as they will appear on the balance sheet or other required statements;
• Receives, receipts and deposits cash collections of various kind and maintains or supervises the maintenance of appropriate records;
• Abstracts data reflecting financial conditions and cooperating results and presents the data in the form of prescribed statements and reports;
• May prepare a variety of reports and schedules reflecting more detailed information in specified account areas;
• Prepares summaries of activities, reports or other data;
• Assigns work to others as required, and oversees work accomplishment;
• Determines various expenditures, purchases or other specific sources of action, basing decisions on rules of action, established policy or executive request;
• Makes estimates of operational procedures, needs or requirements, such as operating budgets, materials or space needed or numbers of items for clerical and administrative operations;
• Processes invoices and prepares vouchers for approval to authorize disbursement;
• Drafts operational guides, forms and other materials requiring specific knowledge of methods, procedures, policies or other information;
• Maintains inventory control records;
• Supervises one or more account clerical and other subordinates.

Requirements

• Experience Requirement: Applicants must have had work experience of the kind and quality described below and in the amounts shown in the following table:
• Class Title General Experience Specialized Experience Total (years)
• Account Clerk IV 1/2 3* 3-1/2

Qualifications

• General Experience: Work experience which demonstrated knowledge of arithmetic and spelling and possession of the abilities to follow oral and written directions, to write simply and directly and to observe differences in words and numbers quickly and accurately.
• Specialized Experience: Work involved in posting to accounting records and other systematizing of fiscal information; i.e., computing, classifying and recording numerical data to keep sets of financial accounting records complete and to derive reports therefrom. Such experience must have demonstrated knowledge of standard accounting classification and terminology pertinent to accounts maintenance operations and office practices and procedures relating to the processing and recording of transactions and accounting information.
• Some Account Clerk IV positions require that applicants possess knowledge of the principles and practices of double-entry bookkeeping.

Skills

Knowledge of standard accounting classification and terminology pertinent to accounts maintenance operations and office practices and procedures relating to the processing and recording of transactions and accounting information.

Knowledge of the principles and practices of double-entry bookkeeping.

Benefits

Includes shortage and school year differentials, if applicable.

Pay

Salary: The advertised salary is based on full-time employment and includes shortage and school year differentials, if applicable.

Schedule

Payday is on the 5th and 20th (or previous business day) of every month.