Senior Account Clerk - Purchasing

THIS IS A COMPETITIVE CIVIL SERVICE POSITION.

Full-time position (1.0 FTE), 7.5 hours per day, 12 months per year.

• Researches products for purchase by maintaining vendor lists and catalogs;
• Reviews departmental requisitions and budget requests for the purchase of equipment, supplies, and services;
• Maintains a system for tracking purchase orders, vendors, and other pertinent information related to purchasing;
• Issues inventory  and maintains appropriate records
• Conducts routine correspondence on matters where policies and procedures are well-defined
• Works with vendors and departments in processing purchase orders and requisitions
• Verifies and reconciles a number of account balances according to a prescribed procedure
• Responsible for data entry of inventory records and retrieval of records information;
• Prepares routine reports of information taken from journal or ledger
• May compile and prepare labor, material and operational cost records and reports
• Operates personal computer, copier, computing, calculator, and other office machines
• Assists with bid openings, keeping appropriate records and recording bids at public bid openings in accordance to New York State Laws and county policy;
• Compiles data for, and prepared and analyzes complex financial and statistical records and reports
• Performs other duties as assigned.

The Greater Southern Tier BOCES does not discriminate in employment or in the education programs and activities which it operates on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, religion, race, color, national origin or disability in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and New York State Human Rights Law.

• Graduation from a regionally accredited college or university or one accredited by the New York State Board of Regents to grant degrees with an Associate Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field; OR;
• Graduation from high school or possession of an equivalency diploma and completion of a business certificate program that includes coursework in accounting, and OR:
• Graduation from high school or possession of an equivalency diploma and two (2) years of clerical experience involving responsibility for maintaining and checking financial accounts and records