*Position Title: Accounting Technician*
*Location: Benton Harbor, MI 49022*
*Duration: Could go from Temp to full-time*
*Work Schedule: Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.
m.
to 5 p.
m.
*
*Responsibilities:*
*Summary:*
This is specialized accounting clerical work involving the performance of difficult and highly responsible work.
Employees are responsible for preparing and maintaining payroll, billing, cost accounting, and vendor payments.
The employee is responsible for posting, taking trial balances, preparing reports, reconciling bank accounts and performing related office clerical duties relating to the City's ledgers and journals of accounts.
Employees work under general supervision of a designated supervisor and may exercise work direction over others.
*Essential job functions:*
· Any one position may not include all the duties listed, nor do the listed examples in clued all tasks which may be found in positions of this class.
· Computes and prepares City Payroll and fringe benefits for payment and recording.
· Prepares various required reports such as quarterly social security reports, monthly budgetary reports.
· Posts to cash receipts and disbursements journals; summarizes journal entries and posts to ledgers.
· Prepares periodic reports of balances, revenue and expenditures, and other financial reports as required.
· Bills out accounts receivable, distributing credit upon billing and periodically balancing accounts receivable detail to control ledger account.
· Prepares vouchers, receipts, journal entries and all other input data in proper form for processing through automated appropriation and expenditures program; balances and reconciles all reports generated through automated program to books and accounts.
· Posts delinquent tax collections and balances rolls to proper ledger accounts.
Verifies posting and balancing of all cash received as to accounts credited and amounts.
· Reconciles bank statements with the proper records.
· Operates a computer to compile and report the city's computerized operations and reporting systems.
· May answer correspondence requiring knowledge unique to the area of assignment.
· Prepares vouchers for payment of bills, payrolls and records vouchers issued to ensure budget is not overspent.
· Any one position may not include all of the duties listed, nor do the listed examples include all tasks which may be found in positions of this class.
· Collects both current and delinquent taxes (a task which includes specialized knowledge of tax regulations)
· Interacts with the County's data processing department in solving tax related processing problems.
· May sign checks as authorized.
· Performs related work as required
Job Type: Contract
Salary: Up to $16.
00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Schedule:
* 8 hour shift
Work Location: On the road