Senior Account Clerk

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES

Performs varied and difficult clerical work involving the compilation and maintenance of financial records and may supervise subordinate clerical personnel; performs related duties as required.

COMPLEXITY OF DUTIES

Under general supervision, this is varied and difficult clerical work involving the keeping and reviewing of financial records and related account-keeping tasks, with some leeway for the exercise of independent judgment in applying prescribed procedures and methods to routine cases.

TYPICAL DUTIES

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

Minimum Qualifications

• Training and Experience:
  • Graduation from high school, including or supplemented by courses in bookkeeping or accounting.
  • Two years of satisfactory office clerical experience which included as the major function the compilation and maintenance of financial accounts and records.
• OR
  • Graduation from high school and Three years of satisfactory office clerical experience which included as the major function the compilation and maintenance of financial accounts and records.
• Experience, as outlined in (1) or (2) above, in excess of the two or three-year requirement, respectively, may be substituted for high school education on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of two years.

Note

Experience as outlined in (1) or (2) above, in excess of the two or three-year requirement, respectively, may be substituted for high school education on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of two years.