FINANCIAL OFFICE SPECIALIST

About The Position

The Clark County Human Resources Department is seeking qualified candidates to apply for the Financial Office Specialist position. As a member of our team, you will provide difficult, technical, complex or specialized financial, business and accounting office support to various County and related local government offices.

Responsibilities

• Performs a variety of general office support work such as organizing and maintaining various files, typing correspondence, reports, forms, and specialized documents, and proofreading and checking materials for accuracy, completeness and compliance with departmental policies and regulations.
• Performs difficult or complex accounting or financial office support work and assists with special projects as assigned.
• Reviews and reconciles varied reports and journals and budget, payroll or related financial or business data.
• Enters and retrieves data from a computer system and produces reports.
• Audits and verifies various information, including source data as well as manual and computer-produced reports.
• Captures and maintains varied subsidiary ledgers, auditing and reconciling reports and information and posting data as required; may generate general ledger entries.
• Researches and assembles information from a variety of sources for the completion of forms or the preparation of reports.
• Works with strict, recurring deadlines.
• Operates standard office equipment.
• Uses a computer to develop and manage databases and/or spreadsheet files and to develop special report formats.
• Provides information to the public or to County or departmental staff that requires the use of judgment and the explanation of policies, rules or procedures.
• Contributes to the efficiency and effectiveness of the unit's service to its customers by offering suggestions and directing or participating as an active member of a work team.

Requirements

• Equivalent to graduation from high school AND three (3) years of full-time general clerical experience, two (2) years of which include accounting or financial experience.
• Professional level experience and/or education that has provided the skills and knowledge necessary to perform all job functions at this level may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.

Qualifications

• All qualifying education and each experience must be clearly documented in the “Education” and “Work Experience” sections of the application.
• All details must be written in your own words and cannot be copied from job descriptions or other external sources.

Working Conditions

• Specified positions may require working evening, night, weekend and holiday shifts.

Background Investigation

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background investigation. Periodically after employment, background investigations may be conducted.

Citizenship

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Please note, Clark County does not provide H1B visa sponsorships or transfers for any employment positions.

Pre-Employment Drug Testing

Employment is contingent upon the results of a pre-employment drug examination.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

• Performs a variety of general office support work such as organizing and maintaining various files, typing correspondence, reports, forms, and specialized documents, and proofreading and checking materials for accuracy, completeness and compliance with departmental policies and regulations.
• Performs difficult or complex accounting or financial office support work and assists with special projects as assigned.
• Reviews and reconciles varied reports and journals and budget, payroll or related financial or business data.
• Enters and retrieves data from a computer system and produces reports.
• Audits and verifies various information, including source data as well as manual and computer-produced reports.
• Captures and maintains varied subsidiary ledgers, auditing and reconciling reports and information and posting data as required; may generate general ledger entries.
• Researches and assembles information from a variety of sources for the completion of forms or the preparation of reports.
• Works with strict, recurring deadlines.
• Operates standard office equipment.
• Uses a computer to develop and manage databases and/or spreadsheet files and to develop special report formats.
• Provides information to the public or to County or departmental staff that requires the use of judgment and the explanation of policies, rules or procedures.
• Contributes to the efficiency and effectiveness of the unit's service to its customers by offering suggestions and directing or participating as an active member of a work team.