Accountant II- Clerk's Accounting- 42-2026
$46.17k - $78.02kFull-time
Polk County Clerk of Courts
Join a team of dedicated professionals in the Polk County Clerk of Courts office. The Clerk’s office has been recognized as a Best Places to Work—an award given by CareerSource Polk that is based on employee surveys and an evaluation by judges. The Clerk of Courts provides a very rich benefit plan which includes membership in the Florida Retirement System, health insurance, an employee wellness center, and an employee gym. There’s also a paid time off plan in which one can accrue twenty-two days of leave time in the first year of employment. Job Number: 42-2026
Hiring Rate: $46,171.34- $78,017.16
Shift: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Monday-Friday
FLSA Status: Exempt
Department: Clerk’s Accounting- Bartow Essential Attributes:
Hiring rate: $46,171.34 - $78,017.16
Monday - Friday; 8am - 5pm
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Hiring Rate: $46,171.34- $78,017.16
Shift: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Monday-Friday
FLSA Status: Exempt
Department: Clerk’s Accounting- Bartow Essential Attributes:
- The Mission of the Clerk of Courts has a high degree of public accountability, regular attendance and punctuality is an essential function of this position.
- Support and comply with the Mission Statement and Code of Conduct of the Clerk of Courts.
- Maintain a high standard relating to professional conduct and behavior.
- Work cooperatively with other employees of the work unit and embrace a teamwork approach to completing tasks.
- Understand Fine and Forfeitures and their appropriate distributions per Florida Statutes, as well as internal computer systems that handle those functions.
- Perform regular reconciliations of accounts, identifying and resolving discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Prepare journal vouchers to record accounting entries and adjustments.
- Set up new suppliers in Oracle; update and maintain current suppliers.
- Manage the Clerk’s Purchasing Card to include payment, entering receipts into Oracle, and reconciling.
- Provide exceptional customer service to internal and external customers by responding to all inquiries, phone, email, etc., in a timely fashion.
- Professionally address and resolve customer inquiries by using good problem solving and decision-making skills.
- Enter and audit into Oracle personnel and payroll transactions necessary to process the bi-weekly payroll.
- Manage workflow to ensure all payroll transactions are processed accurately and timely; prepare and execute payroll processing.
- Reconcile and prepare Florida Retirement System file and payment.
- Reconcile and prepare the Federal Taxes for remitting to the appropriate depository.
- Prepare vouchers to remit the payroll deductions for the correct payees.
- Review and prepare the vouchers and journal entries for payment of manual checks for refund or reissued payroll checks.
- Ability to competently perform payroll processing using the Oracle payroll system.
- Prepare the garnishment deduction for court-ordered garnishments.
- Prepare and review payroll liability General Ledger reconcilements.
- Reconcile and/or analyze any GL accounts on a timely basis as assigned.
- Participate in writing standard operating procedures.
- Maintain confidentiality of information learned or acquired as part of the position.
- Being able to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Perform other related work as required.
- Bachelor's Degree preferred from an accredited four-year college or university in accounting or a minimum of 4 years of direct experience.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as statutes, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals and technical materials.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and changing priorities while meeting critical deadlines.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to create and follow detailed procedures through multi-step processes.
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
- Ability to apply general accounting principles and methods.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized and abstract situations.
- Strong working knowledge of PCs and advanced skills related to software such as spreadsheets, databases and word processing.
- Ability to make good decisions.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Applicant must have the physical, developmental and mental ability to perform job tasks, work efforts, responsibilities and duties of the job illustrated above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust to focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Hiring rate: $46,171.34 - $78,017.16
Monday - Friday; 8am - 5pm
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