Accounting Technician

The Finance Department has an exciting opportunity for an Accounting Technician I to join the Finance team. This position performs a variety of technical accounting duties involved in the preparation, review, and maintenance of financial and statistical records including purchasing, accounts payable, cashiering, and revenue.

• Equivalent to high school diploma.
• One year of general accounting experience is desirable.

The ideal candidate will have experience in accounts payable, including processing vendor invoices, verifying payments, reconciling accounts, and maintaining accurate financial records.

Essential duties require the following physical skills and work environment:
Ability to work in a standard office environment.

Exercises no supervision.

• Standard office procedures, methods and computer equipment.
• Fundamental principles and procedures of fiscal record keeping.
• Basic mathematical principles.
• Principles and techniques used in dealing with the public.

• Type and enter data at a speed necessary for successful job performance.
• Operate modern office equipment including computer equipment and software.

• Learn the procedures and functions of assigned position.
• Learn and apply pertinent Federal, State, and local laws, codes, and regulations including administrative and departmental policies and procedures.
• Learn to accurately tabulate, record and balance assigned transactions.
• Work under supervision within a well-defined framework of standard policies and procedures.
• Understand the organization and operation of the assigned department and the City necessary to assume assigned responsibilities.
• Perform mathematical computations quickly and accurately.
• Perform general technical accounting work including maintaining appropriate files and compiling information for reports.
• Respond to questions from the public and City personnel regarding policies and procedures for assigned area.
• Plan and organize work to meet schedules and timelines.
• Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Establish, maintain, and foster positive and harmonious working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

• Receive and record receipt of money from the public and other City departments in the form of cash and check; operate cash register and make change; balance and prepare summaries of daily receipts and cash.
• Enter and tabulate bulk water mail payments.
• Process and balance VPD coin collections on a weekly basis.
• Prepare daily bank deposit of checks that are to be pre-encoded.

• Audit and review revenue cash transactions.
• Reconcile daily cash revenues deposited in the bank to the cash accounts in the general ledger.
• Initiate and process journal entries that will balance revenue transactions in the general ledger cash account.
• Post revenue balances in the City cash accounts.
• Maintain and reconcile a variety of ledgers, reports and account records; examine and correct accounting transactions to ensure accuracy; prepare and post journal entries.
• Gather, check, and tabulate data used in the preparation of records and reports; research background information and account histories.
• Perform a variety of general administrative support duties including typing, maintaining files and records.
• Assist customers, departments, and employees by providing fiscal information, explaining procedures, and answering questions.
• Prepare a variety of routine fiscal reports, statements, and schedules; prepare new year, mid-year, and year end reports.
• Establish and maintain complete files and records related to assigned function.
• Operate modern office machines and equipment…