Principal Account Clerk - County Jail

Principal Account Clerk – County Jail

Burlington County Department of Corrections is currently accepting applications for the position of Principal Account Clerk.

$45,000.00/yr - $50,000.00/yr

$45,000 - $50,000

35 hour work week

Under direction, performs a variety of clerical duties of considerable difficulty and complexity which involve computing, classifying, verifying, and recording numerical data and reconciling accounts, records, and documents to keep sets of financial records complete, and may supervise a small group of employees in the maintenance of accounting records; does related work as required.

• A Bachelor's degree is preferred; however, two (2) years of experience in the preparation, maintenance, and/or review and verification of financial records will also be considered.

• Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.

• Knowledge of an extensive body of accounting clerical procedures and techniques required to understand and work with a total accounting system or with an identifiable segment of an integrated double entry bookkeeping system.
• Knowledge of account relationships within the accounting system.
• Knowledge of and facility in work involving accounting and/or financial data, mathematical calculations, and the checking and processing of information.
• Knowledge of clerical routines and procedures involved in collection, sorting, coding, preparation of accounting data, and basic arithmetic functions.
• Ability to analyze clerical accounting problems, to apply rules, regulations, and methods to a variety of situations, and to develop effective work methods.
• Ability to gather, compile, and analyze basic accounting data and to prepare reports and summaries thereon.
• Ability to locate discrepancies in financial reports which are of moderate complexity and to make corrections.
• Ability to use judgement in recognizing possible alternative actions to problems when they are not prescribed or readily apparent, and in referring to others problems which require other than clerical decisions.
• Ability to compose correspondence of an explanatory or interpretive nature.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and find averages and percentages.
• Ability to perform work requiring constant and close attention to clerical and numerical detail.

Pension, paid vacation, accrued sick time, health & dental.

This position is located in the Administration Office within the detention facility. Applicant must be comfortable in correctional setting, with the professional ability to work with correctional staff and administration, court administration, and inmates. Must successfully pass criminal background check. All interested candidates, please submit your resume to brydellington.nj.us and ensure you put County Corrections Dept. Principal Account Clerk in the subject line.

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