Account Clerk Senior Government Job Dept-Gainesville Police Department Full Time

Make a difference in the community you live in! As a Community Builder—an employee with the City of Gainesville— you will have a direct hand in building and improving your community and making a visible impact on the lives of your neighbors. Working for local government is more than a job, it’s a chance to contribute to community success and to help enhance the Gainesville way of life.

SUMMARY

Performs the highest level of non-degreed accounting and/or utility billing functions, including, but not limited to, analyzing and resolving billing and accounts payable issues, customer and financial database and records maintenance and other complex financial and records functions.  Performs lead account clerk work involving administration of contracts, preparation and monitoring of department budgets, training, development and coordination of support staff, preparation of fiscal reports, and/or maintenance of complex financial and billing records and the handling of complex and sensitive financial matters.

Positions allocated to this classification report to a designated supervisor or manager and work under general supervision with limited direction.  Work in this class is distinguished from higher classes by its lack of management responsibility and from lower classes by its performance of high level account clerical responsibilities, including acting as lead worker to other account clerks.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Depending on area of assignment:

-Prepares, monitors, verifies and balances departmental budget or other complex financial records and reports.

-Understands, applies and trains other personnel in the proper billing of all utility services.

-Interacts with other departments to ensure appropriate billing of utility services to customers.

-Analyzes quotes and reviews, manages and administers departmental contracts.

-Performs technical bookkeeping work, including journal entries to update the general ledger.

-Accesses, interprets and determines the best methods to extract information from appropriate computer and manual systems to analyze, prepare and/or resolve financial and billing issues.

-Analyzes large demand accounts to make billing corrections.

-Analyzes and resolves the most sensitive and complex billing issues.

-Interacts with vendor representatives and handles complaint issues.

-Acts as the department resource for procurement of needed services, supplies, materials, and equipment.

-Processes, reconciles and audits travel requests and reports and ensures compliance with appropriate City policies and procedures.

-Compiles and prepares varied and complex financial reports for supervisors, internal and external auditors and/or local and state agencies.

-Trains other City employees to understand and comply with departmental and organizational policies and procedures.

-Attends work on a continuous and regular basis.

NON-ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

May act in absence of supervisor.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

-Graduation from high school or possession of an acceptable equivalency diploma, and five years of experience in accounting, bookkeeping or other revenue-related accounting work, including two years in municipal accounting or finance performing complex clerical and sub-professional accounting functions; or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience which provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

-An Associate of Arts degree with at least 12 semester hours of accounting can be substituted for one year of experience;

-Typing at a speed acceptable to departmental needs.

CERTIFICATIONS OR LICENSES:

Licenses

None.

Certifications

None.

****TWE Test will be required****

To schedule testing please contact CareerSource North Central Florida at Testing Requirements

To be considered for this position you must take and pass the City of Gainesville Typing, Word, and Excel assessments.

To schedule testing please contact CareerSource North Central Florida by emailing Pam Cannon at [email protected] or 352-955-2245 ext. 5969. She is the test administrator and will be able to assist you with your assessments.

*PLEASE LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE MESSAGE FOR INSTRUCTIONS* This testing is done online. Testing is due 5 days after submission of your application.