Principal Account Clerk

Job Description

Job Description

SUNY Sullivan

Principal Account Clerk

Position Description

About Us: SUNY Sullivan is a forward-looking, top-tier community college in New York offering over 40 degree programs, certificates, and micro-credentials for learners at all levels of their educational goals. We value critical inquiry and creativity while supporting our students in a culture of inclusion and respect.

Learn more about SUNY Sullivan's employee benefits and 405-acre campus on our website.

Job Summary:

This is highly important account keeping work involving responsibility for the frequent exercise of independent judgment in planning and managing complex account keeping, checking, coding and clerical activities and independently performing the more responsible and complex functions. The work is performed under general supervision and in accordance with outlined objectives, policies and detailed procedures. Difficult technical or policy problems are referred to a supervisor for decision or review of judgment and recommendations are made. Supervision may be exercised over the work of assigned clerical or account clerical staff.

Qualifications:

• Graduation from a college or university with a Bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting or related field; or
• Graduation from a college or university with an Associate's degree in business administration, accounting or related field and two (2)years of progressively responsible experience in maintaining or checking financial records or reports; or
• Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma and four (4) years of progressively responsible experience as described in (B) above; or
• Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience as described in (B) above; or
• An equivalent combination of training and experience as described in (A), (B), (C), and (D) above.
• NOTE: Successful completion of coursework in business administration, accounting or a related field at a college or university, may be substituted for the required experience with three (3) semester credit hours being equivalent to three (3) months of experience for a maximum of twelve (12) semester credit hours.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plans, assigns and reviews the maintaining and checking of a wide variety of financial records and reports and instructs employees in the specialized details of this work;
• Revises and develops improved procedures and methods and installs those approved by superiors; Handles complaints, suggests solutions to problems and conducts correspondence;
• Assists superiors in the preparation of budget information, collection of data, compiling of statistics and solution of personnel problems;
• Maintains complex activity control records, schedules work loads and flow and coordinates the work with that of other units;
• Compiles, prepares and analyzes complex labor, material and operational cost records and reports; May supervise subordinate clerical/account clerical staff;
• Classifies a complex variety of receipts and expenditures and distributes costs records according to a prescribed code;
• Compiles, prepares and analyzes a variety of complex financial and statistical records and reports;
• Supervises and reviews the checking of complex account-keeping records and reports for arithmetical and clerical accuracy, completeness and proper extension;
• Supplies data for budget, recommends budget estimates and assists in maintaining budget control; Operates computing, calculating, check writing and other office machines;
• Performs a variety of standard keyboarding tasks, including typing correspondence, records and reports

Salary:

This is a Civil Service position. Salary is predetermined by the union contract. The entry salary for the role is $46,522.54. The full salary (contingent on the completion of a six month probationary period) is $48,971.10.

A comprehensive list of benefits associated with this role is accessible at -sullivan-careers.

Application Process:

Please submit your cover letter, resume or CV, and the contact information including emails for 3 professional references.