• Supervises and participates in posting of financial and statistical information to logs, journals, ledgers and other records utilizing hand posting techniques, or personal and mainframe computers; reviews source documents to insure accuracy; assigns proper account codes as needed
• Prepares periodic summaries of transactions including trial balances, worksheets and revenue and expense statements
• Examines, reconciles and adjusts accounting records; identifies and resolves problems and makes corrective entries using hand posting techniques, or personal and mainframe computer generated programs
• Supervises or is personally responsible for the gathering, compiling, analysis and evaluation of financial, statistical and operational data; answers questions that involve searching for and abstracting financial and statistical data and explaining policies and procedures
• Assists in preparation and control of a departmental budget; may prepare preliminary budgets
• Reviews clerical accounting systems, procedures and forms and makes changes to meet new needs and requirements, devising new forms and determining appropriate format of computer spreadsheets for reports
• May supervise subordinate personnel to include selecting and training of new employees
• Assists administrative personnel in analyzing statistical and financial data and in preparing special reports
• Works with departmental personnel, representatives of other departments and agencies in coordinating, evaluating and modifying financial recordkeeping
• Maintains cost accounting records by supervising and participating in the computing, allocating, and posting of costs to various accounts; computes and allocates charges and depreciation costs; prepares summaries and cost statements.

Any combination of training, education and/or experience which provides the knowledge, skills and abilities and required conditions of employment listed above is qualifying. An example of a way these requirements might be acquired is:
Experience:
Eighteen months of experience performing duties equivalent to a Senior Account Clerk in Monterey County.
OR
Training:
Completion of a training course leading to a bookkeeper certificate and six months of supervised on the job training.