Accounting Technician - Citywide
Accounting Technician - Citywide
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$ 84739 - 102997
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Job Description
Our diverse and inclusive workforce of more than 7000 employees play a key role in the success of San Jos the heart of the Silicon Valley. All City of San Jos employees work together as one team to make San Jos a vibrant innovative and desirable place to live and work.Visithere to learn more about our One Team Leadership Values and Expectations including quality and excellent customer service and hereto learn more about San Jos.
The City of San Jos is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for all job openings will be considered without regard to age race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation disability veteran statusor any other consideration made unlawful under any federal state or local laws. The City of San Jos is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please contact us at711 (TTY) or via email at .
About the Department
The City of San Jos the Capital of Silicon Valley is one of the nations bestmanaged cities and one of the top ten cities in which to live work and do business. Moreover San Jos is the center of cultural government and economic activity for the region. The employees of the City of San Jos have embraced the following values: Integrity Innovation Excellence Collaboration Respect and Celebration.
The City of San Jose invites applications for the citywide classification of Accounting Technician. Under general supervision the Accounting Technician performs complex work of considerable difficulty in the maintenance of financial records systems or transactions and related work as required.This is a classbased recruitment. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications for the Accounting Technician classification will be added to the active Qualified Candidate Group and contacted when a departmentspecific vacancy becomes available. This candidate pool will supersede any active list. If you are in the current Qualified Candidate Group you will need to reapply in order to be considered for future vacancies.
Position Duties
The total salary range for the Accounting Technician classification is $84739.20 $102997.44.
This salary range includes an approximate five percent (5%) ongoing nonpensionable compensation. The actual salary shall be determined by the final candidates qualifications and experience.
This is the highestlevel class in the nonprofessional accounting series responsible for performing paraprofessional accounting work. This class differs from the next lower class of Principal Account Clerks based on the technical difficulty of assigned duties. This class differs from the Accountant I class in that the latter is a professionallevel class wherein incumbents may prepare and sign off reports statements and audits and perform other professional accounting functions.
Duties may include but are not limited to:
Provides detailed technical paraprofessional accounting records to operating departments or Finance Department including but not limited to summaries inventories control reports projections or analyses.
Processes financial documents according to internal regulations and in compliance with county state or federal requirements; reviews records or other documents to resolve problems and/or determine proper coding entries and documentation; researches payments received by the City; processes payments and other accounting entries to the Financial Management System (FMS); scans and saves all documentation in accordance with policy.
May supervise accounting clerical personnel assign and evaluate work.
Advises operating departments/units in setting up and conducting financial matters and departmental program budgets according to City regulations.
Interfaces with other City departments auditors business entities governmental jurisdiction and the general public giving and receiving information regarding areas of financial responsibility.
Operates or utilizes a variety of standard office equipment including but not limited to computers printers scanners phones calculators fax software programs and accounting machines and equipment.
Prepares organized legible and concise written and verbal communication applying directives that are thorough accurate and comprehensive.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Completion of high school or equivalent (General Education Development GED Test or California Proficiency Certificate).Experience: At least four (4) years performing responsible accounting clerical work including at least two (2) years of experience reviewing and balancing ledgers processing and reviewing revenues payments or requisitions or serving as a timekeeper and processing payroll.
Acceptable Substitution:
A bachelors degree in a related field from an accredited college or university may be substituted for the required experience.Other Qualifications
Competencies: The ideal candidate will possess the following competencies as demonstrated in past and current employment history. Desirable competencies for this position include: Job Expertise Demonstrates knowledge of and experience with applicable professional/technical principles and practices Citywide and departmental procedures/policies and federal and state rules and regulations. Computer Skills Experienced with financial management system and common business computer applications including but not limited to: MS Outlook MS Word MS PowerPoint MS Access and MS Excel.
Customer Service Demonstrates the ability to anticipate customers needs and deliver services effectively and efficiently using professional demeanor.
Decision Making Identifies and understands issues problems and opportunities; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions.
Flexibility Makes effective decisions and achieves desired results in the midst of major changes in responsibilities work processes timeframes performance expectations organizational culture or work environment.
ProblemSolving Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue; determines the significance of problem(s); collects information; uses logic and intuition to arrive at decisions or solutions to problems that achieve the desired outcome.
Reliability Completes quality work assignments in a timely and efficient manner; fulfills responsibilities and maintains confidentiality as appropriate.
Teamwork & Interpersonal Skills Develops effective relationships with coworkers and supervisors by helping others accomplish tasks and using collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
Communication Skills Effectively conveys information and expresses thoughts and facts clearly orally and in writing; demonstrates effective use of listening skills; displays openness to other peoples ideas and thoughts.Selection Process:
The selection process will consist of an evaluation of the applicants training and experience based on the application and responses to all the job specific questions. You must answer all questions to be considered or your application may be deemed incomplete and withheld from further consideration.Applicants are expected to write their own essays/responses. Please be advised that use of AI content in your responses may result in your removal from the hiring process.Only those candidates whose backgrounds best match the position will be invited to proceed in the selection process. Additional phases of the selection process will consist of one or more interviews.
If you have questions about the duties of these positions the selection or hiring processes please contact Vaishali Vashistha at.
Additional Information:
Employment Eligibility: Federal law requires all employees to provide verification of their eligibility to work in this country. Please be informed that the City of San Jose will NOT sponsor represent or sign any documents related to visa applications/transfers for H1B or any other type of visa which requires an employer application.
You must answer all jobspecific questions to be considered for this vacancy or your application will be deemed incomplete and withheld from further consideration. Applicants are expected to write their own essays/responses. Please be advised that use of AI content in your responses may result in your removal from the hiring process.
Please note that applications are currently not acceptedthrough CalOpps or any other third party job board application system.
This recruitment may be used to fill multiple positions in this or other divisions or departments. If you are interested in employment in this classification you should apply to ensure you are considered for additional opportunities that may utilize the applicants from this recruitment.
Please allow adequate time to complete the application and submit before the deadline or the system may not save your application. If your online application was successfully submitted you will receive an automatic confirmation email to the email address you provided. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE THE CONFIRMATION please email and we will research the status of your application.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
