Asset Accountant I or II

Description

County of Santa Barbara
HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT
1226 Anacapa Street
Santa Barbara, Ca. 93101
Job No.: 08-7103-01

Examples of Duties

• Directs customers to proper unloading location
• Determines types of material in customer’s vehicle
• Weighs incoming and outgoing commodities in refuse vehicles, and calculates and collects disposal fees from customer
• Handles cash and check transactions and makes change
• Explains disposal fees to customers
• Operates automated and/or manual cash and charge registering system
• Issues receipts
• Reconciles and prepares reports and maintains proper receipt records
• Balances cash drawer at the end of the work shift
• Prepares and makes daily bank deposits
• Estimates and buys daily cash and change requirements
• Reviews and enforces refuse ordinance and facility safety rules
• Inspects loads for unacceptable materials
• Prevents unloading of illegal, hazardous, or toxic materials by explaining regulations to customers
• Removes various items (i.e., computer monitors, tires, televisions, etc.) from the waste stream
• Identifies and documents illegal dumping or other hazardous materials incidents
• Alerts management and provides information on person(s) responsible for illegal dumping
• Directs and controls refuse vehicle traffic at transfer stations and landfills to designated areas
• Coincides vehicle parking with equipment operators
• Coincides loader operation with traffic flow
• Maintains contact with scale house and other operational personnel while on the pad to ensure effective site operations
• Enters data into the computer system
• Prints out daily tonnage reports
• Identifies and corrects minor computer software failures
• Refers more complex problems to programmer and follows direction to bring system on line
• Responds to system down time by converting to manual accounting systems

Employment Standards

One year of work experience that included public contact and cashiering; or, a combination of training, education, and experience that is equivalent to the employment standard listed above and that provides the required knowledge and abilities.

Supplemental Information

• Incumbents are required to: work rotating shifts, rotating work locations, holidays, and weekends
• Stand on hard surfaces up to 4 hours
• May be exposed to unpleasant field working conditions, including rainy, cold, windy, or hot weather
• Move items weighing 40 pounds or more (i.e., computer monitors, large tires, televisions, etc.)

Selection Process

• Review applications to determine those candidates who meet the employment standards
• Written Examination. The written examination is scheduled for Saturday, October 11, 2008. The written examination may be eliminated if there are fewer than eleven qualified candidates
• Applicants must receive a percentage score of at least 70 on the written examination to be placed on an employment list. An adjustment may be made to raw scores based on factors listed in Civil Service Rule VI. Those candidates who are successful in the selection process will have their names placed on the employment list for a minimum of three months. At the time the employment list is established, all applicants will receive written notice of their score on the exam(s) and rank on the employment list.
• Appointee may be subject to a post-offer medical evaluation or examination. The appointee must satisfactorily complete a probationary period.

Retirement Plans

• Generous County Defined Benefit Plan
• Eligible to participate in 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plan
• Retirement Reciprocity with CalPERS, CalSTRS, and 1937 Act plans

Choice of Dental, Vision and Medical Plans

• Available Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account (HSA), Supplemental Term or Whole Life Insurance, Personal Accident Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance and more!

Vacation Leave

• 12 to 25 days per year depending on length of public employment

Sick Leave

• 12 days annually with unlimited accumulation, one year of which can be converted to service credit upon retirement

Paid Holidays

• Based on bargaining unit (view the compensation summary for this bargaining unit, link below)

Alternative Transportation Benefit (TDM)

• Up to 2 days of additional vacation for using alternative methods of commuting

County Paid Term Life Insurance

• County Paid Long Term Disability Insurance

Childcare and Employee Discounts

• Relocation Assistance may apply
• Flexible work schedule may apply

For more information on all of these benefits, please visit:

http://cosb.countyofsb.org/hr/default.aspx?id=11064