Finance Technician

Pay Range: $26.86 - $33.04 Hourly

About the role

Join us at Multnomah County Health Department, where we are seeking individuals who embody leadership, achievement, and action in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment. Our mission is to collaborate with communities, advance health equity, safeguard the most vulnerable, and foster health and wellness for all. Guided by our core values of Compassion and Care, Empowerment, Racial Equity, Creativity, and Integrity, we strive to create a workplace culture characterized by respect, trust, and understanding for the incredibly diverse populations we serve.

Multnomah County's Public Health Division is a vital resource for residents, working to promote physical and mental health, prevent disease and injury, and ensure access to essential health services. Key functions include preventing and controlling diseases, supporting maternal and child health, addressing mental health and substance use, ensuring environmental health, and promoting health equity.

The Finance Technician delivers critical financial and administrative support to Multnomah County Environmental Health Services. This role involves managing revenue collection, processing expenditures, maintaining financial records, and conducting monthly account reconciliations. It also focuses on process improvement by generating ad hoc reports and advising management on optimizing accounts payable efficiency and accuracy. Beyond standard financial duties, this position requires flexibility to support public health emergency responses, which may occasionally necessitate evening and weekend work. The employee is expected to foster a respectful, inclusive, and harassment-free work culture that builds trust with colleagues and the diverse communities served by the Health Department.

Responsibilities

• Financial Processing and Revenue Assistance
  • Manages accounts payable and receivable, processes cash and electronic deposits, issues invoices, tracks delinquent accounts, and performs daily, monthly, and year-end reconciliations.
  • Monitors and adjusts Environmental Health Services (EHS) fiscal systems—including journal entries and receipts—while identifying and implementing process changes to minimize errors.
  • Maintains detailed financial documentation and verifies transactions to ensure strict adherence to County, State, and Federal regulations, internal controls, and audit requirements.
  • Provides dedicated technical assistance and operational support directly to Environmental Health Programs.
• Budgetary Support and Reporting
  • Assists program managers in monitoring revenues and expenditures against approved budgets, proactively alerting leadership to any financial variances or concerns.
  • Processes purchase requisitions, orders, and contracts for required program supplies and services, while maintaining accurate administrative inventory records.
• Financial Oversight
  • Serves as the primary point of contact for the public, vendors, and internal departments to address inquiries related to fees, payments, and billing.
  • Maintains organized physical and electronic financial files per retention schedules, ensuring all operations strictly adhere to current County policies and regulatory changes.
• Front Office Customer Service Support
  • Provides frontline support both in person and over the phone, facilitating public requests for services and accurately managing written, oral, and electronic communications.
  • Participates in a team rotation to supply educational materials and triage general public inquiries regarding EHS programs, county procedures, and state ordinances, effectively routing individuals to appropriate internal programs or external agencies.

Requirements

We will consider any combination of relevant work experience, volunteering, education, and transferable skills as qualifying unless an item or section is labeled required.

• Required Minimum Qualifications/Transferable Skills:
  • Training and experience equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade and one (1) to four (4) years of experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position.
  • Transferable skills: Skills gained through education, work experience (including the military), or life experiences relevant to this position. Describe these skills on your application and explain how they apply.
• Preferred Qualifications/Transferable Skills:
  • Demonstrated proficiency using large-scale financial, ERP, or governmental accounting software (such as Workday) to process accounts payable/receivable, post journal entries, and perform complex month-end and year-end reconciliations.
  • Apply an equity, intersectional, and anti-racist lens; negotiate and facilitate through cultural differences, conflicts, tensions, and misunderstandings.
  • Respect and appreciation for ethnic and cultural diversity; advanced knowledge of cultures, customs, and social experiences of communities experiencing marginalization and barriers to services.
  • High degree of resilience to thrive in an environment of rapid change while effectively managing pressure in a professional manner.
  • Identify and deconstruct unnecessary administrative and clinical barriers that impact communities of color and marginalized groups.
  • Promote a culture of respect, inclusiveness, and appreciation of diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and values; maintain a safe and healthful workplace.
  • Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills to collect payments accurately while professionally de-escalating difficult or upset customer encounters.

Benefits

Multnomah County offers an exceptional benefits package, including:

• Employer-funded retirement savings.
• Health and dental insurance at very low cost to full-time employees and their dependents.
• Paid parental leave.
• Wellness programs.
• A focus on work-life balance.

Find more details on our benefits website.

This represented position is eligible for overtime and is classified as non-exempt under the FLSA.