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Accounting Technician Position Description
  
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Approved:          01-17-66
Revised:          11-10-73

DEFINITION

            Under general supervision to perform complex clerical and technical work involving fiscal and operating reports, documents, and records; to prepare A.D.A. reports from data received from individual schools; and to maintain the district's inventory system.

DISTINGUISHING  CHARACTERISTICS

            Positions in this class are characterized by the wide latitude given for independent judgment and initiative for resolving problems within a major area of responsibility.  These positions are typically located in the payroll, retirement, attendance and accounting sections where the technical nature of the job requires an overall understanding of the system.

EXAMPLES  OF  DUTIES

            Assists with development of accounting data and reports which reflect accounting formation for revenue and expenditure of funds for special projects and programs; examines purchase requisitions for equipment, supplies, or expenses for proper coding and enters amounts into proper accounts; prepares payroll reports and maintains payroll data necessary to preparation of monthly and per diem payrolls; balances and resolves discrepancies in payrolls; maintains records and processes all changes regarding employee retirement programs; audits enrollment and attendance procedures and their accuracy at the elementary level on a regular basis; compiles monthly and yearly reports showing enrollment, average daily attendance class size, enrollment by grades, and other required information; assists with inservice training of personnel working with enrollment and attendance records; maintains a variety of accounts and records of department property and reconciles all new capital outlays to the correct location; systematically takes an actual physical count of the district's assets; prepares beginning and ending asset balances showing deletions and additions; keeps a manual total of the warehouse stock balance and makes necessary adjusting entries; indexes and files bills, vouchers and other documents related to specially funded projects; performs a variety of difficult clerical work involving the use of an adding machine and calculator; and related duties as required.

MINIMUM  QUALIFICATIONS

            Knowledge  of:

                        Methods and practices of financial recordkeeping and clerical work;

                        Financial statement and general accounting control procedures;

                        Modern office methods and procedures;

            Rules, regulations, laws and policies governing the school district and ability to apply them with good judgment.

and

            Ability  to:

            Analyze and interpret fiscal records and documents and to prepare accurate and complete financial summaries and reports;

                        Make arithmetical calculations with speed and accuracy;

                        Understand and carry out difficult oral and written instructions;

                        Work cooperatively with those contacted in the course of the work;

                        Operate an adding machine and calculator;

                        Learn laws, regulations, and policies governing attendance accounting.

and

            Experience:

            One year of responsible experience in complex clerical financial or accounting work, preferably including financial, statistical or accounting experience in a school district.

and

            Education:

            Two years of college including courses in statistics, accounting or bookkeeping.  (Additional qualifying experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.)

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