Accounting Technician
for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections to include based on content. We have duties (responsibilities). We have minimum education and experience (qualifications). We have shift (schedule). We have compensation (pay). We have benefits. We have other metadata like number of openings, postal code, job type, place of work, requisition ID, veterans encouraged, public transportation accessible. Those could be folded into a short
maybe under "About the role" or similar. The instruction: "Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we can include a short paragraph with those details. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual pay range: $28.04 - $35.78 / Hourly. So we can have Pay section. Schedule: shift first (day). So we can have Schedule section. Benefits: we have description. Qualifications: minimum education and experience, driver's license, background check. Skills? Not explicitly listed; maybe we can omit Skills section if no specific skills. Responsibilities: duties. About the role: could include brief overview: The Accounting Technician provides high quality customer service... plus other metadata. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from posting. Let's extract all substantive info: Job Duties (list): - Provides high quality customer service through interactions with Steele County residents, internal departments and various external entities. - Processes payments on behalf of the County and ensures accuracy of disbursements and receipts as well as prepares department payroll for processing. - Assists in maintaining all departmental accounts receivable for patient and program health care services in conjunction with the Finance office: - Codes receipts to the appropriate general ledger accounts and prepares deposits. - Processes health insurance remits in electronic health system. - Responsible for departmental accounts payable in conjunction with the Finance Office: - Codes vouchers for vendor bills to coincide with specific program cost percentages. - Verifies calculations and codes vouchers for contracted services and staff mileage and reimbursements. - Reconciles credit card expenses and receipts. - Assist with inventory counts and putting inventory into tracking system. - Assist with entering and scanning client information into the electronic record. - Assist with chart audits and waiver vendor billing issues. - Assess client insurance eligibility. - Comply with the Code of Ethics for employees of the County, the Minnesota Data Privacy Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). - Performs general office, customer service and/or clerical duties within the department such as: - Addresses customer questions over the phone or in person concerning department functions and operations. - Maintains office records, files and records retention schedules. - Provides backup support and assistance at front desk. - Performs other duties of a comparable level or type, as required. Minimum Education Required: 2 year technical or associate degree with emphasis in: accounting, finance, business administration or related field Minimum Experience Required: 2 years of accounting or billing experience Valid Driver’s License Ability to pass a background check Shift: First (Day) Number of Openings: 2 Public Transportation Accessible: No Veterans Encouraged to Apply: Yes Compensation: $28.04 - $35.78 / Hourly Postal Code: 55060 Job Type: Full Time Place of Work: On-site Requisition ID: 78671 Job Benefits: Steele County will contribute to HSA/VEBA $1,700 for single or $3,500 for family (if you elect to pay for our Medical insurance that is provided by Medica); other benefits that are available include dental, vision, life insurance, long term disability insurance, deferred compensation plan, pension plan, employee assistance program, paid time off, etc. Cost of living adjustment and pay increases per union contract. The pay range listed is our 2026 rates. We are currently set to receive a 4% cost of living adjustment on 1/1/2027. We need to output HTML fragment only. We'll create sections:
About the role
... include overview and metadata like openings, postal code, job type, place of work, requisition ID, veterans encouraged, public transportation accessible? Might be okay. But we also have separate sections for Pay, Schedule, Benefits, Responsibilities, Qualifications. We need to avoid duplicate content. So About the role can be a brief summary: The Accounting Technician provides high quality customer service... plus maybe mention full-time, on-site, etc. But we must preserve all substantive info; if we put some info in About the role, we must not omit it elsewhere. So we need to ensure each piece appears somewhere. Simplify: Use sections for each major category: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Pay, Schedule, Benefits. Then put remaining metadata (Number of Openings, Postal Code, Job Type, Place of Work, Requisition ID, Veterans Encouraged, Public Transportation Accessible) into a short
under About the role or maybe under a "Details" section. But we should not create a section with heading if it's just filler; we can embed them in a paragraph. Thus:
About the role
The Accounting Technician provides high quality customer service through interactions with Steele County residents, internal departments and various external entities. This full-time, on‑site position is located in Steele County (postal code 55060). There are 2 openings. Veterans are encouraged to apply. Public transportation is not accessible to the worksite. Requisition ID: 78671.
That covers those metadata. Now Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- ... each duty as list items. Need to preserve all duties. We'll break them into list items.
We have many duties; we can group some but must keep all info. We'll create list items for each bullet.
Qualifications:
Qualifications
- 2 year technical or associate degree with emphasis in accounting, finance, business administration or related field
- 2 years of accounting or billing experience
- Valid driver’s license
- Ability to pass a background check
Pay
$28.04 - $35.78 per hour
Schedule:Schedule
First (day) shift
Benefits:Benefits
Steele County will contribute to HSA/VEBA $1,700 for single or $3,500 for family (if you elect to pay for our Medical insurance that is provided by Medica); other benefits that are available include dental, vision, life insurance, long term disability insurance, deferred compensation plan, pension plan, employee assistance program, paid time off, etc. Cost of living adjustment and pay increases per union contract. The pay range listed is our 2026 rates. We are currently set to receive a 4% cost of living adjustment on 1/1/2027.
We must not repeat job title as heading. We didn't. Check for any boilerplate: we removed things like "Job Duties Duties" duplication, "Minimum Education Required" etc. We kept the substance. We need to ensure we didn't miss any duty: Let's list them again and ensure each appears. Duties list from text: - Provides high quality customer service through interactions with Steele County residents, internal departments and various external entities. - Processes payments on behalf of the County and ensures accuracy of disbursements and receipts as well as prepares department payroll for processing. - Assists in maintaining all departmental accounts receivable for patient and program health care services in conjunction with the Finance office: - Codes receipts to the appropriate general ledger accounts and prepares deposits. - Processes health insurance remits in electronic health system. - Responsible for departmental accounts payable in conjunction with the Finance Office: - Codes vouchers for vendor bills to coincide with specific program cost percentages. - Verifies calculations and codes vouchers for contracted services and staff mileage and reimbursements. - Reconciles credit card expenses and receipts. - Assist with inventory counts and putting inventory into tracking system. - Assist with entering and scanning client information into the electronic record. - Assist with chart audits and waiver vendor billing issues. - Assess client insurance eligibility. - Comply with the Code of Ethics for employees of the County, the Minnesota Data Privacy Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). - Performs general office, customer service and/or clerical duties within the department such as: - Addresses customer questions over the phone or in person concerning department functions and operations. - Maintains office records, files and records retention schedules. - Provides backup support and assistance at front desk. - Performs other duties of a comparable level or type, as required. We need to include all these as list items. Some are sub-bullets; we can flatten. We'll create list items: - Provides high quality customer service through interactions with Steele County residents, internal departments and various external entities.
- Processes payments on behalf of the County and ensures accuracy of disbursements and receipts as well as prepares department payroll for processing.
- Assists in maintaining all departmental accounts receivable for patient and program health care services in conjunction with the Finance office: codes receipts to the appropriate general ledger accounts and prepares deposits; processes health insurance remits in electronic health system.
- Responsible for departmental accounts payable in conjunction with the Finance Office: codes vouchers for vendor bills to coincide with specific program cost percentages; verifies calculations and codes vouchers for contracted services and staff mileage and reimbursements; reconciles credit card expenses and receipts.
- Assists with inventory counts and putting inventory into tracking system.
- Assists with entering and scanning client information into the electronic record.
- Assists with chart audits and waiver vendor billing issues.
- Assesses client insurance eligibility.
- Complies with the Code of Ethics for employees of the County, the Minnesota Data Privacy Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).
- Performs general office, customer service and/or clerical duties within the department such as: addresses customer questions over the phone or in person concerning department functions and operations; maintains office records, files and records retention schedules; provides backup support and assistance at front desk.
- Performs other duties of a comparable level or type, as required. That covers all. Now Qualifications: we have 4 items. Pay: we have. Schedule: shift first (day). We'll phrase as "First (day) shift". Benefits: we have. Now About the role paragraph: include overview and metadata. We need to ensure we didn't duplicate any info already in other sections. The overview sentence about providing high quality customer service is also in Responsibilities; but it's okay to have it in both? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. It doesn't forbid duplication, but better to avoid redundancy? Not explicitly forbidden. However, we might want to keep the overview short and not repeat the duty list. The