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About the role

The Auditor Controller Department has an immediate opening in our General Accounting Division for a ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN II position. This person will review and approve journal entries; process departmental cash receipts; assist in maintenance of chart of accounts in Peoplesoft; assist with special projects; and act as a lead over two Accounting Technicians. The Accounting Technician II classification is the advanced journey level in the Accounting Technician series, and primarily functions as key assistants to professional accountants or management staff.

Responsibilities

• Performs specialized/technical review with final approval and control of fiscal records and accounts.
• Researches and resolves a variety of difficult problems independently through review of multiple records; exercises initiative in anticipating or identifying problems or errors and follows up to resolve; forecasts impact of potential actions/decisions.
• Interprets a wide variety of complex policies, procedures, regulations, contracts and agreements to determine their applicable provisions and clauses for assistance with difficult problems and circumstances.
• Performs final review of claims against the County which requires the verification of compliance with instructions, specifications and provisions of contracts which have complex terms and language that may be ambiguous and/or have potential for expenditure of large amounts of County funds.

Qualifications

• Experience: One year of experience as an Accounting Technician I or Supervising Accounting Assistant with the County of Riverside or an equivalent position. OR Four years of experience in the maintenance and review of fiscal, financial or statistical records including one year in the reconciliation of accounts (experience in reconciling governmental budget accounts is preferred).
• Education Substitute: One year of the required non-specialized experience may be substituted with the completion of 12 semester or 18 quarter units in accounting from an accredited college or university.
• Knowledge of: governmental accounting systems, procedures and regulations; the interrelationships of internal and external recordkeeping systems, accounting systems and procedures containing such items as expenditures, revenues, general ledger and related accounting procedures; legal requirements of County contracts, agreements, minute orders and resolutions.
• Ability to: understand the relationships among fiscal or statistical records and documents; understand transactions in terms of accounting codes and classification; perform a wide variety of difficult and responsible financial/accounting duties; maintain and monitor control totals of primary accounting record sources and summarize and assimilate into reports and other accounting documents; understand and interpret the principles, laws and procedures involved in the bookkeeping and auditing functions; gather and analyze a variety of financial data and draw logical conclusions.
• In addition to the above: Knowledge of: accounting and business law terminology; the significance of the accounting cycle, and the interrelationship of data contained in various accounts; the principles and procedures used in the preparation of financial statements and bank reconciliation's; mathematical techniques and concepts involved in collection, organizing, interpreting, summarizing, analyzing and graphically presenting numerical data.
• Ability to: Communicate effectively with the public and staff in other departments, requiring the explaining of difficult and/or complex accounting systems or procedures; interpret complex and/or varied source documents, laws, regulations and procedures and apply them to varied or difficult circumstances.

Supplemental Information

Please submit a detailed resume indicating education, licenses, experience, and any additional information relevant to the position with a cover letter referencing “Accounting Technician II” directly on line to jobmatch@rc-hr.com And Please Send a Courtesy Copy (cc :) to owynn@rc-hr.com.