Accountant Manager LT Job

ND Testing 05/04

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DEFINITION:
Performs difficult and complex accounting clerical work in the maintenance of accounting records within an established framework of procedures, under general supervision. For the purpose of providing a guideline to the use of the term scale in this specification, the following examples are offered:

(Small Scale System) A departmental accounting system having approximately 200 appropriation and revenues accounts and cost centers.
- OR -
An accounts payable, accounts receivable, or trust accounting system having approximately 5,000 active accounts.

(Large Scale System) A general accounting system or segment thereof having approximately 10,000 appropriation, fund, proprietary and revenue accounts and cost centers.
- OR -
An accounts payable, accounts receivable, or trust accounting system having approximately 100,000 accounts.

CLASSIFICATION STANDARDS:

Serves as a clerical assistant to a higher level in-charge accounting position which has day-to-day responsibility for operation of the accounting system; does a variety of the more difficult and complex bookkeeping and financial-clerical work, spending a large portion of time in maintaining the accounting records of a moderate to large-scale general accounting system or a combination of small scale appropriation or cost accounting and accounts receivable, accounts payable, or trust accounting systems; performs the work within an established framework of procedures; such work includes:the establishing and clearing of reserves; computing accrued expenses and revenues; distributing both direct and indirect costs to an established job or hospital cost accounting system; taking trial balances, reconciling accounts with the Auditor's abstract or a proof ledger including those instances where the cause of disagreements often is not obvious because of the volume and variety of transactions involved; reconciling bank accounts affecting the balances of a large group of funds or revenue accounts and involving a very large number of transactions; and compiling financial, statistical accounting, and operating reports including those in which data from several accounting periods must be compiled and the format or which is usually predetermined and standard but sometimes requires non-substantive internal rearrangement to exclude irrelevant data or highlight portions requiring substantial detail. May do posting, and journalizing by hand, machine, or through initiation of computer input, and spend small portions of time sorting, coding verifying, and filing financial documents as an incident to performing the more difficult work. -OR- Supervises and performs inventory control work of a strictly clerical nature spending full time in maintaining a large-scale system of stock and equipment accounts and performing associated work within an established framework of procedures; such work includes:investigating and explaining differences between book value and physical inventories of supplies and equipment with responsibility for identifying reasons for differences, computing inventory adjustments resulting from price change or depreciation and writing adjusting documents, and advising line supervisory personnel concerning variations from established inventory control procedures and good practices. May also perform incidental tasks such as the checking and coding of documents reflecting stock and equipment transactions, posting such transactions to stock and equipment ledgers, balancing inventory ledgers, preparing statistical reports reflecting inventory operations, and preparing standard documents related to supply and inventory control activities. -OR-Prepares complex claims for reimbursement and associated schedules and working papers under close supervision where such work requires a knowledge of bookkeeping and of the accounting system which is comparable to that required to perform bookkeeping assignments of the character described elsewhere. May perform work which required the skilled use of desk calculators, bookkeeping machines, adding machines and typewriters. May routinely access such office equipment as video display terminals, word processors, or personal computers to input data, perform computations, or produce documents not requiring the formatting or programming of such equipment.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
One year's accounting clerical experience at the level of Account Clerk I.

LICENSE:


PHYSICAL CLASS:
2 - Light.

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ND Testing 05/04