What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fiscal Assistant, Grade 16 position at Montgomery County Government?
About The Position
The salary range above represents this position’s earning potential. The anticipated hiring range for this position will be $57,596 per year to $90,149 per year, based on the candidate’s qualifications and experience.
Who We Are
Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) is committed to building a talented, skilled, and diverse workforce; enhancing the employee experience; and ensuring excellent customer service for County residents, businesses, and licensees. ABS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and values diverse perspectives, lived experiences, and cultures. ABS encourages BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), immigrants, women, LGBTQIA , individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply.
Who We Are Looking For
ABS is seeking individuals for this position that demonstrates an understanding of accounting systems, policies and procedures to examine, verify, process and maintain accounts and accounting data, such as posting entries to and maintaining accounting journals and ledgers, calculating and preparing monthly billings, and assisting an accounting supervisor or accountants by verifying figures and proofing special financial reports.
What You'll Be Doing
The Fiscal Assistant is responsible for accounting tasks involved in maintaining journals, ledgers and other financial records, according to established procedures and instructions received from the supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience: Four (4) years of progressively responsible, fiscally-related clerical experience (e.g., posting journal entries, processing fiscal actions using automated systems), including demonstrated proficiency with integrated word processing and spreadsheet functions.
Education: Completion of an Associate of Arts degree with a major in Accounting or completion of 12 acceptable college credit hours in Accounting.
Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
This position requires completion of a pre-employment Medical History Form to assess your ability to safely perform the essential duties of the role.
Preferred Criteria, Interview Preferences
The applications of those individuals meeting the minimum qualifications will be reviewed to determine the extent and relevancy of training and experience for this position.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position.
Montgomery County Government(MCG) is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should email OHR at Hiring@montgomerycountymd.gov . Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.
MCG also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference .
All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria or interview preference status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.
This will establish an Eligible List that may be used to fill both current and future vacancies.
If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.
Montgomery County Ethics Law : Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code . Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.
The salary range above represents this position’s earning potential. The anticipated hiring range for this position will be $57,596 per year to $90,149 per year, based on the candidate’s qualifications and experience.
Who We Are
Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) is committed to building a talented, skilled, and diverse workforce; enhancing the employee experience; and ensuring excellent customer service for County residents, businesses, and licensees. ABS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and values diverse perspectives, lived experiences, and cultures. ABS encourages BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), immigrants, women, LGBTQIA , individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply.
Who We Are Looking For
ABS is seeking individuals for this position that demonstrates an understanding of accounting systems, policies and procedures to examine, verify, process and maintain accounts and accounting data, such as posting entries to and maintaining accounting journals and ledgers, calculating and preparing monthly billings, and assisting an accounting supervisor or accountants by verifying figures and proofing special financial reports.
What You'll Be Doing
The Fiscal Assistant is responsible for accounting tasks involved in maintaining journals, ledgers and other financial records, according to established procedures and instructions received from the supervisor.
- Analyses documents to ensure proper posting and reconciliation of the transactions.
- Prepares journal entries to record accounts receivable such as rents, charges for services, reimbursements to County, and other miscellaneous charges.
- Prepares and calculates monthly billings as assigned by supervisor.
- Audits the charge codes, including index code, sub-object code, project/project detail codes or grant/grant detail codes and the amount of the journal entries prepared by County departments and agencies and prepares vouchers for payment by Accounts Payable.
- Analyses various accounts as assigned by supervisor monthly.
- Assists supervisor, higher-grade paraprofessionals or financial professionals in preparing and proofing recurring financial statements.
- Analyses computer runs to verify financial data.
- Determines the appropriateness of refunds or additional amounts due because of abatements on both real and personal property accounts.
- Assists supervisor in all areas of billing to ensure timely processing.
- Provides general administrative support to other unit/division/departmental functions as needed.
- Calculates revised tax bills.
- Receives, logs, and analyses daily deposits for all facilities within the department against the daily cash balances report.
- Generates general ledger report and cash balance report for each posting date; reconciles with daily receipts; prepares revenue transmittals; deposits daily receipts at bank and delivers to Treasury copies of deposit slips and revenue transmittals for check and credit card transactions.
- Receives and posts payments to cash accounts.
- Reconciles credit card transactions.
- Researches and investigates merchant charge back requests and/or duplicate charges and adjusts accordingly.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience: Four (4) years of progressively responsible, fiscally-related clerical experience (e.g., posting journal entries, processing fiscal actions using automated systems), including demonstrated proficiency with integrated word processing and spreadsheet functions.
Education: Completion of an Associate of Arts degree with a major in Accounting or completion of 12 acceptable college credit hours in Accounting.
Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
This position requires completion of a pre-employment Medical History Form to assess your ability to safely perform the essential duties of the role.
Preferred Criteria, Interview Preferences
The applications of those individuals meeting the minimum qualifications will be reviewed to determine the extent and relevancy of training and experience for this position.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position.
Montgomery County Government(MCG) is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should email OHR at Hiring@montgomerycountymd.gov . Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.
MCG also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference .
All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria or interview preference status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.
This will establish an Eligible List that may be used to fill both current and future vacancies.
If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.
Montgomery County Ethics Law : Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code . Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.
Salary : $57,596 - $90,149
