Account Clerk

• Assembles, matches, sorts, tabulates, checks, and files numerical data; keeps basic financial records and processes documents involved in financial transactions.

• Clears requisitions for payment and verifies charges and accounts.

• Serves as a cashier, balances daily receipts, prepares required reports, and distributes checks.

• Performs a variety of routine accounts payable duties, receives payments, issues receipts, and prepares bank deposits.

• Operates adding, calculating, and other office machines, and utilizes a computer terminal to input and retrieve data.

• Maintains and posts a variety of financial and statistical data for various reports from files and records.

• Types financial summaries, purchase orders, requisitions, memoranda, and correspondence.

• Posts to and maintains equipment inventory records, receives and routes mail, and answers the telephone.

• Utilizes data entry equipment to process customer accounts; prepares and records changes in service and new service accounts.

• Completes new customer account information and closes out customer accounts.

• Computes bills and prepares them for distribution, and audits meter readings.

• Initiates work orders regarding high billing and related water service problems, and updates or adjusts customer account information.

• Initiates collection for past due accounts and records or refunds customer deposits.

• Answers questions and provides information on City utility services, policies, and ordinances to customers and members of the general public.

• Researches status and provides current information on customer accounts as requested.

• May perform a variety of clerical recordkeeping duties and assist other office personnel in general clerical, cashiering, and account clerical activities.

You are a service-driven professional with:

• Knowledge of modern office methods and procedures, and the basic methods and practices of financial recordkeeping.

• The ability to perform a variety of financial or statistical recordkeeping work of average difficulty involving independent judgment, accuracy, and speed.

• The ability to make arithmetical computations and type accurately from clear copy.

• The ability to explain City utility rate ordinances and services, and deal tactfully and courteously with the public, especially when collecting past due accounts.

Salary : $4,136 - $5,025