Senior Account Clerk (Accounts Payable) - Academy Park

Monday – Friday

APSUE Employment Opportunity

General Statement: The work involves performance and/or supervision of moderately difficult and responsible clerical work in maintaining and reviewing financial accounts and records.  The incumbent is responsible for independently performing and/or supervising varied account keeping, reviewing and related tasks.  The work may require a general understanding of specific law, office rules, procedures and policies.  Employees generally follow a prescribed routine and in most cases receive only infrequent general instructions.  Unusual problems or situations, not previously encountered, are referred to supervisors or by another step in the account keeping process.  

Job Duties:

• Oversees and classifies a variety of receipts and expenditures, and distributes items according to prescribed procedures;
• Assigns work, reviews and records work done, and instructs new employees in specialized account keeping activities;
• Posts entries to journal and/or ledger;
• Reviews and checks account keeping records and reports for arithmetical and clerical accuracy, completeness and proper extension;
• Supervises lower clerical personnel in the verification and reconciliation of individual account balances;
• Conducts correspondence on matters where policies and procedures are well defined;
• Issues receipts for monies received;
• Compiles and prepares labor, material and operational cost records and reports;
• Supervises the processing, sorting, indexing, recording and filing of a variety of control records and reports;
• Operates computing, calculating, check writing and other office machines;
• Prepares reports from journal or ledger;
• Compiles data, prepares and analyzes complex financial and statistical records and reports;
• Assists in the preparation of unit or departmental budget and in maintaining budget control;
• Enters and retrieves information in an automated information system;
• Performs related work as required.