Accounting Clerk (City Clerk Office)

Responsibilities

• Maintains established account classification, including cash books, voucher registers, general ledgers, and journals; posts entries from supporting records.
• Maintains accounting controls and performs balancing operations on accounting activities.
• Handles telephone calls, providing complete and courteous information to callers.
• Updates cemetery files, sells or transfers cemetery plots, and invoices monthly notices.
• Ensures all City Purchase Orders are entered accurately and paid in a timely manner.
• Invoices funeral homes for services rendered.
• Assists the Cemetery Superintendent by verifying plot availability.
• Completes training and helps finalize the Cemetery website project.
• Acts as backup for collections clerk and alternates cash balancing with the A/P Clerk.
• Maintains city forms, letters, memoranda, reports, tabulations, statements, and various card records from rough drafts or detailed instructions in vaults and cabinets.
• Keeps vault and file cabinet records clean and orderly.
• Maintains the accounting system tape replacement daily.
• Secures and maintains public records for street closings, roadblocks, and other requests, including proper signatures and calendar approvals to avoid overlaps.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the City Clerk.

Requirements

• Associate’s Degree with two (2) years of experience in Accounting or Finance; OR any equivalent combination of education and experience in public finance or public accounting.
• Progressive experience in fund accounting or governmental accounting and bookkeeping/accounts reconciliation preferred.

Pay

$21.53 hourly