FT Account Clerk

• GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES
• Performs routine clerical work involving the keeping of financial records and accounts; performs related duties
• as required.
• COMPLEXITY OF DUTIES
• Under direct supervision, this is routine clerical work involving the exercise of a working knowledge of
• account-keeping procedures, there is some independent responsibility for accurate performance of assigned
• tasks.
• TYPICAL DUTIES
• Sorts and classifies requisitions and vouchers; codes vouchers.
• Posts to ledger accounts from expense and appropriation records.
• Reconciles vendors' monthly statements and bank statements.
• Prepares payrolls.
• Writes receipts for incoming cash.
• Operates simple office machines.
• Types financial forms and reports.
• Prepares purchase orders.
• Maintains running balance of unencumbered and cash funds.
• Maintains perpetual inventory of equipment and supplies.
• Prepares checks, as required.
• Takes trial balances and makes other financial reports.
• Performs a variety of related clerical account-keeping duties and other clerical
• tasks such as filing.
• Operates a data entry terminal, as required.
• Maintains employee time and attendance records, as required.
• *TYPICAL ADA ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• FULL PERFORMANCE KNOWLEDGES, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
• Knowledge of financial accounting and record-keeping practices, office
• terminology, procedures, and equipment.
• Ability to follow simple oral and written instructions.
• Ability to write legibly.
• Ability to work swiftly and accurately with simple arithmetic problems.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Training and Experience

1. Graduation from high school, including or supplemented by a course in
bookkeeping or accounting;
or
2. Graduation from high school
and
One year of office clerical experience which involved working with financial
accounts and records.
NOTE: Experience, as outlined above, in excess of the one-year requirement, may be
substituted for high school education on a year-for-year basis up to a
maximum of two years.