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Accounting Technician II

The Auditor Controller Department has an immediate opening in our General Accounting Division for an ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN II position. This person will review and approve journal entries; process departmental cash receipts; assist in maintenance of chart of accounts in People Soft; assist with special projects; and act as a lead over two Accounting Technicians. The Accounting Technician II classification is the advanced journey level in the Accounting Technician series and primarily functions as a key assistant to professional accountants or management staff.

• Perform specialized/technical review with final approval and control of fiscal records and accounts.
• Research and resolve a variety of difficult problems independently through review of multiple records; exercise initiative in anticipating or identifying problems or errors and follow up to resolve; forecast impact of potential actions/decisions.
• Interpret a wide variety of complex policies, procedures, regulations, contracts and agreements to determine their applicable provisions and clauses for assistance with difficult problems and circumstances.
• Perform final review of claims against the County which requires the verification of compliance with instructions, specifications and provisions of contracts which have complex terms and language that may be ambiguous and/or have potential for expenditure of large amounts of County funds.

• One year of experience as an Accounting Technician I or Supervising Accounting Assistant with the County of Riverside or an equivalent position.
• Four years of experience in the maintenance and review of fiscal, financial or statistical records, including one year in the reconciliation of accounts (experience in reconciling governmental budget accounts is preferred). One year of the required non‑specialized experience may be substituted as listed under Education.
• Education substitute: one year of the required non‑specialized experience may be substituted with the completion of 12 semester or 18 quarter units in accounting from an accredited college or university.

Knowledge: Governmental accounting systems, procedures and regulations; interrelationships of internal and external record‑keeping systems; accounting systems and procedures containing expenditures, revenues, general ledger and related accounting procedures; legal requirements of County contracts, agreements, minute orders and resolutions.

Ability: Understand relationships among fiscal or statistical records and documents; understand transactions in terms of accounting codes and classification; perform a wide variety of difficult and responsible financial/accounting duties; maintain and monitor control totals of primary accounting record sources and summarize and assimilate into reports and other accounting documents; understand and interpret the principles, laws and procedures involved in the bookkeeping and auditing functions;

gather and analyze a variety of financial data and draw logical conclusions.

Knowledge: Accounting and business law terminology; the significance of the accounting cycle and the interrelationship of data contained in various accounts; principles and procedures used in the preparation of financial statements and bank reconciliations; mathematical techniques and concepts involved in collection, organizing, interpreting, summarizing, analyzing and graphically presenting numerical data.

Ability: Communicate effectively with the public and with staff in other departments, requiring the explaining of difficult and/or complex accounting systems or procedures; interpret complex and/or varied source documents, laws, regulations and procedures and apply them to varied or difficult circumstances.

Possession of a Certified Payroll Professional certificate issued by the American Payroll Association within six months from the date of hire may be required. A valid California Class C Driver’s License may also be required.

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