Position Summary
Perform a wide variety of internal services financial duties in support of the assigned department including payment of vendor invoices, creation of accounts receivable invoices, providing accurate revenue information, processing purchasing documents, gathering of insurance certificates and bonds, cash handling, banking and licensing enforcement functions and / or maintaining the central records for the City's fixed assets or maintaining the central records for the assigned division;
and perform a variety of internal service duties relative to assigned duties within the department.
Job descriptions are intended to present a general list of tasks / duties performed by employees within this job classification.
Job Descriptions are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job.
Minimum Education, Experience And Additional Requirements
Education and experience directly related to the minimum requirements below may be interchangeable on a year for year basis.
High school diploma or GED supplemented by thirty (30) credit hours college-level course work in business, or general studies; and
Three (3) years of basic bookkeeping or accounting experience.
Preferred Knowledge
- Modern office procedures, methods and equipment including computers
- Principles and procedures of accounting
- Banking practices, procedures and regulations
- Principles and procedures of inventory control
- Applicable computer applications including word processing and spread sheets
- Principles and procedures of financial record keeping and reporting
- Pertinent Federal, State and local laws, codes and regulations
- Advanced principles and practices of governmental and fund accounting
Preferred Skills & Abilities
- Maintain a variety of financial records
- Maintain a variety of claim files
- Receive and process claims
- Respond to requests and inquiries from the general public
- Interpret and explain a variety of departmental issues and policies
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work
- Perform accounting calculations and procedures including reconciling financial reports
- Prepare clear and concise financial reports
- Perform accurate searches of outstanding bills owed the City
- Communicate clearly and concisely
- Perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation