Provisional - Senior Account Clerk

About the Role

Performs varied and difficult clerical work involving the compilation and maintenance of financial records. May supervise subordinate clerical personnel.

Under general supervision, this role involves varied and difficult clerical work in keeping and reviewing financial records, with some independence in applying prescribed procedures and methods to routine cases.

Responsibilities

• Computes payrolls, deductions, etc., and prepares summaries by accounting codes, balancing with gross payroll.
• Posts ledgers and journals and summarizes for control.
• Directs and assists in the training and supervision of new employees.
• Operates bookkeeping machines and other office equipment.
• Maintains a variety of ledgers, entering receipts and disbursements.
• Issues checks, prepares daily bank deposits, and reconciles bank statements, posting to cash book.
• Prepares recapitulation of valuation and tax extensions.
• Sets up ledger cards and prepares adjusting journal entries for machine posting, checking accuracy of postings.
• Prepares special reports as required.
• Answers routine correspondence concerning accounts.
• Handles all clerical and bookkeeping functions for employee benefits such as hospitalization and pension, and answers routine inquiries.
• Performs a variety of related account-keeping and clerical tasks.
• May operate a data entry terminal.

Requirements

• General knowledge of methods used in keeping financial accounts and records.
• Good knowledge of office terminology, procedures, and equipment.
• Thorough knowledge of business arithmetic and English.
• Ability to follow complex oral and written directions.
• Clerical aptitude.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications include:

• Graduation from high school, including or supplemented by courses in bookkeeping or accounting, and two years of satisfactory office clerical experience involving the compilation and maintenance of financial accounts and records; or
• Graduation from high school and three years of satisfactory office clerical experience involving the compilation and maintenance of financial accounts and records.

Experience in excess of the two- or three-year requirement may substitute for high school education on a year-for-year basis, up to a maximum of two years.