Lead Accounting Technician - 12024

Job Title

Performs tasks that contribute to the implementation of basic accounting and fiscal records management processes supporting a major County function or operation.

Starting Salary: $20.81 hourly/ $43,284.80 annually

Core Competencies

• Customer Commitment - Proactively seeks to understand the needs of our customers and provide the highest standards of service
• Dedication to Professionalism and Integrity - Demonstrates and promotes fair, honest, professional and ethical behaviors that establishes trust throughout the organization and with the public we serve
• Organizational Excellence - Takes ownership for excellence through one's personal effectiveness and dedication to the continuous improvement of our operations
• Success through Teamwork - Collaborates and builds partnerships through trust and the open exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives to achieve organizational goals

Job Specific Competencies

• Knowledge of procedures, policies, and rules of assigned division or unit.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, practices, procedures, methods, and theory.
• Knowledge of laws, rules, and policies governing assigned functional accounting area.
• Knowledge of computer operations using accounting and spreadsheet applications.
• Skill in the use of computers, computer related software or programs, local networks, databases and internet search engines.
• Skill in communication and effective writing.
• Ability to handle restricted, sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability to effectively lead or supervise lower-level administrative/clerical staff.
• Ability to plan, schedule, assign, monitor, train, review and evaluate the work of assigned staff.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and apply job related rules, policies and procedures.
• Ability to prepare accounting, financial, and statistical reports.
• Ability to compile, analyze and/or audit accounting, budgetary, fiscal, and data related to specific functional area.
• Ability to use accounting software, word processing, spreadsheet, and related software applications.
• Ability to make and verify mathematical calculations.
• Ability to analyze and audit accounting, budgetary, and fiscal data.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and apply job-related rules, policies and procedures.
• Ability to review and monitor the work of support staff.

Representative Duties

Note: The following duties are illustrative and not exhaustive. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. Depending on assigned area of responsibility, incumbents in the position may perform one or more of the activities described below.

• Analyzes and audits accounting and fiscal data, records and reports.
• Accesses and secures restricted, sensitive and confidential records or information.
• Reconciles accounting records and compiles and prepares basic fiscal reports and statements.
• Compiles and prepares fiscal reports, statements and data for specific fiscal requirements.
• Processes payment requests and reimbursements.
• Post transactions and prepares journal entries related to functional area of responsibility.
• Inspects, reviews and/or maintains a complex record system involving varied accounting, fiscal, payroll, and leave transactions, or of a less complex system involving a large number of transactions, in compliance with agency and/or departmental rules and procedures.
• Performs audit review to ensure data entry accuracy of transactions under functional area of responsibility.
• Processes fund transfers.
• Prepares accounting and fiscal reports, statements, and summaries.
• Provides technical expertise in training other members of the organization.
• Handles and resolves (including research, determining priority status, referral to management and professional staff) requests, inquiries and concerns related to functional area of responsibility.
• Composes, proofreads and edits correspondence, memos, spreadsheets, minutes, logs, and reports in final form, for management approval or signature.
• Performs other tasks that support administrative processes, and business needs.

Performs other duties as needed, including those performed by subordinate fiscal, financial, and/or clerical staff.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements: Graduation from High School or a GED certificate. Experience and/or an Associate Degree or higher degree (in any field) is appreciated, but not required.

Physical Demands: The work is sedentary and requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects; may also require crouching, manual dexterity, hearing, kneeling, lifting, pulling, pushing, reaching, repetitive motion, speaking, standing, stooping, talking, visual acuity, and walking.

Work Environment: Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity and responsiveness to changes that include goals, priorities, and needs of the organization and position. This position is fully on-site and requires regular presence in the office.

Job Class: Classified - An employee who is appointed to a full-time classified position (including reduced hour position) and not identified as an unclassified employee. Classified employees obtain appeal rights upon successful completion of their initial probation.

Career Path: Lead Accounting Technician, Accountant, Accounting Supervisor