ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT I /ACCOUNT CLERK

Job Posting

Salary and Other Information:

Announced for: Nassau County Departments, School Districts, School District Libraries, Towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, Villages, Special Districts, Board of Cooperative Educational Services and Nassau Health Care Corporation

Salary: Varies: County: $32,630 - $64,906 (under the current collective bargaining agreement) NHCC: $38,802 - $51,706

Minimum Qualifications:

Must be met on or before the closing date:

Training and Experience 1. Graduation from high school, including or supplemented by a course in bookkeeping or accounting; or

2. Graduation from high school and one year of satisfactory office clerical experience which involved working with financial accounts and records. Note: Experience, as outlined above, in excess of the one-year requirement, may be substituted for high school education on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of two years. Note: According to Civil Service Law, section 54 which became effective September 4, 2024, applicants who are within 12 months of meeting the minimum age or attaining the minimum educational requirements following the date of examination, may take the civil service exam, but will be restricted from certification until such a time that the minimum age or educational requirements are met. Note: See items nos. 1 and 2 of General Information

Supplemental Information/Subject of Examination/General Information:

How to Apply: Online applications are available at The advantages of filing electronically include the storage of submitted applications in your personal user account and application processing fee payment by credit/debit card.

Additionally, our Examination Announcements webpage includes a link entitled Job Descriptions and Job Interest Cards, which offers the opportunity to view class specifications and fill out a form so that you may receive an email notification when an open competitive examination for a particular title is announced in the future.

Please note: Computers are available to file electronic applications in our office at 40 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Hempstead, NY from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday thru Friday. In accordance with our goal of making the Nassau County Civil Service Commission a paperless agency, no hard copy application is available.

Residency: See item no. 5 of General Information.

Note: Residents of Farmingdale UFSD No. 22 who live in Suffolk County may participate in this examination but will be eligible for appointment only in that school district. Note: The Village of Freeport and the Locust Valley Water District have special residence requirements which must be satisfied.

Fee: Non-refundable processing fee must be submitted for each separately numbered examination for which you apply. This fee must be paid by credit or debit card.

Carefully review the minimum qualifications on this announcement to ensure that you meet them, as this is a non-refundable process. Applications submitted without proper payment will be rejected without review.

Application Fee Waiver: A waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support of a household. In addition, a waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are determined eligible for Medicaid, or receiving Supplemental Security Income payments, or Public Assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families/Family Assistance or Safety Net Assistance) or are certified Job Training Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act eligible through a State or local social service agency. Active-duty military service members and military veterans shall be exempt from the payment of application fees. All claims for application fee waiver are subject to verification. If you can verify eligibility for application fee waiver, when prompted to submit the application processing fee, choose the Fee Waiver option. Follow the directions regarding downloading and submitting the required fee waiver form.

Special Test Accommodations: If you have either a temporary or permanent disability and are in need of reasonable test accommodations, and/or are in need of an alternate examination date due to a conflict with either a Religious Observance or Military Service Commitment, please answer "yes" to the appropriate question(s) in the application.

Note: See item no. 6 of General Information regarding additional credits for veterans, and for children/siblings of firefighters/police officers who qualify under sections 85A/85B of Civil Service Law. If you believe you qualify for such credits, answer "yes" to the applicable question(s) in the application.

Vacancies: See item no. 4 of General Information for information regarding vacancies and background check requirements for appointment to certain positions.

Note: The Nassau County Civil Service Commission has commenced the implementation of electronic canvassing. Canvass letters will be sent to the email address provided on examination applications. To help prevent emails going to spam please save View email address on click.appcast.io to your contacts. However, you should check your inbox and junk/spam folder frequently. The Commission does not accept responsibility for non-delivery or postal delivery delays of US Mail or emails. Some agencies will still be canvassing by US Mail until the transition period has been completed. It is the responsibility of the candidate to notify this Commission, in writing of any change of name, mailing/legal/email address. You must respond to all letters received – more than two no-responses to canvass letters will result in the removal of a candidate from the eligible list.

Total time allowed for examinations held on this date may not exceed eight hours.

Subject of Examination: A written test designed to evaluate knowledge, skills and/or abilities in the following areas:

Operations with Letters and Numbers - These questions test your skills and abilities in operations involving alphabetizing, comparing, checking and counting. The questions require you to follow the specific directions given for each question which may involve alphabetizing, comparing, checking and counting given groups of letters and/or numbers.

Arithmetic Computation with Calculator - These questions test for the ability to use a calculator to do basic computations. Questions will involve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You may also be asked to calculate averages, to use percents, and to round an answer to the nearest whole number. You should bring with you a hand-held battery- or solar-powered calculator for use on this test. You will not be permitted to use the calculator function of your cell phone.

Arithmetic Reasoning - These questions test your ability to solve an arithmetic problem presented in sentence or short paragraph form. You must read the problem, understand the situation presented, decide what must be done to solve it, and apply the appropriate arithmetic operation(s) in the appropriate order in order to determine the correct solution. Knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division is necessary. Questions may also involve the use of percents, decimals, and fractions. You should bring with you a hand-held battery- or solar-powered calculator for use on this test. You will not be permitted to use the calculator function of your cell phone.

Note: If you have not received notice within three days of the examination date of July 25, 2026, call the Commission (572-0862).

It is the responsibility of the candidate to notify this Commission, in writing, of any change of name, mailing/legal/email address, or phone number: indicate examination number and title, and your social security number.

Disabled Veterans: Visit our homepage at to view information (including a downloadable credit request form) on a recent amendment to the New York Constitution regarding the award and use of additional credits for certain disabled veterans on civil service examinations.

General Information

1. Applying: Inquiries should be directed to the Executive Director, Nassau County Civil Service Commission. The Commission does not accept responsibility for non-delivery or delivery delays of emails due to issues with your email account. The Commission reserves the right to reject for lateness or to accept applications filed after the advertised filing period.

2. Training and Experience: The burden of establishing qualifications to the satisfaction of the Commission shall be upon the applicant. For the purpose of meeting the training and experience requirement of any examination, no credits shall be given for any work experience which is determined by the Commission to have been gained or acquired in violation of the provisions of the Civil Service Law.

Where required, certificates, licenses, and military separation papers (DD214) must be submitted with your application. Proof of claimed education, (copy of your high school diploma, Military, GED, New York State or comparable Equivalency Diploma) may be required to be submitted with the application. If education beyond high school is required, official transcripts must be submitted directly to us by the school

College education is considered at the rate of 30 credits completed per year.

For open competitive qualifications only, paid experience, if other than on a full time basis will be prorated.

Volunteer experience may be accepted if verifiable, and the experience claimed must have