Account Clerk - Nexus Staff
Johnstown, NY 12095
About the Job
Job Title: Account Clerk
Employment Type: Full Time
Work Hours: 37.5 hrs./week
Work site: 100% Onsite
Location: HFM BOCES, 2755 State Highway 67, Johnstown, NY 12095
Closing: 01/12/2024.
Minimum Education and Work Experience:
- Graduation from high school, possession of a high school equivalency diploma, or a high school individual education plan diploma,
- Completion of 30 credit hours at a New York State registered or regionally accredited college or university which must have included a minimum of six credit hours in accounting or bookkeeping OR
- One year of experience maintaining financial accounts and records, OR
- An equivalent combination of training and experience as defined by the limits of (a) and (b) above.
Job Duties:
The incumbent will be responsible for performing standard account-keeping practices, maintaining, and checking financial accounts and records. Duties include:
- Reviewing documents such as claim forms, vouchers, bills, and purchase orders to determine eligibility for payment or verify accuracy.
- Verifying calculations and codes on documents.
- Posting figures to appropriate accounts manually or through a computer, ensuring data accuracy.
- Reconciling entries, both debits and credits.
- Preparing simple financial or statistical reports from entered data.
- Compiling payroll data, preparing and checking payrolls.
- Producing data needed for State and Federal reimbursement claims.
- Typing various forms, letters, transcripts, invoices, vouchers, and records.
- Handling cash payments, issuing receipts, preparing checks for disbursement, and reconciling balances.
- Making bank deposits if required.
- Contacting clients, vendors, etc., to obtain additional information.
- Providing routine information orally or in writing in response to inquiries or financial records.
- Filing and maintaining all related records, including those related to processing payrolls, invoices, vouchers, bills, and correspondence.
- Receiving, balancing, and auditing simple payroll time records.
- Processing data for computer or other records.
- Making computations as necessary.
- Operating calculator, computer terminal, personal computer, and other related office equipment.
- Answering telephone, taking messages, providing information, or making appropriate referrals.
Preferred Skills:
- Working knowledge of modern methods of keeping and reviewing financial accounts and records, including financial software.
- Familiarity with office terminology, procedures, and equipment.
- Competence in business English.
- Proficiency in alphanumeric keyboarding.
- Skill in operating a keyboard.
- Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
- Rapid and accurate arithmetical computation skills.
- Proficiency in operating a personal computer and utilizing common office software programs, including word processing, spreadsheet, or databases.
- Ability to write legibly.
- Clerical aptitude
- Mental alertness
- High degree of accuracy
- Tact, Courtesy, and Integrity.
Misc. Information:
- Shift Days/Time: Mon-Fri 8:00 am-3:30 pm.
- Free Parking facility available.
- The Gloversville Transit System and CDTA transport available to drop off and pick up at the FMCC campus located next to HFM BOCES.
- Interviews will be conducted in person or via online based on the availability.
- Training will be provided.
The Nexus Staff Difference:
- Our outstanding healthcare coverage, including dental and vision, begins in just 30 days after you join us.
- We offer weekly payments via ACH (Automated Clearing House).
- Serving as Prime Vendors to New York State and New York City for over 10 years.
Source : Nexus Staff