Senior Accounting Clerk

Salary : $37,025.00 Annually
Location : Savannah, GA
Job Type: Full-Time Permanent
Job Number: 2301389
Department: Financial Services Department
Division: Accounting Services Division
Opening Date: 12/12/2023
Closing Date: 12/26/2023 11:59 PM Eastern
Purpose
This position performs clerical, accounting, and customer service duties in support of department operations.
We offer great pay, excellent benefits to include medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, employee/spouse/child supplemental life insurance, short-term disability, tuition reimbursement, wellness programs, deferred compensation plan (457 B), pension plan, flexible spending account, employee referral program, home purchase assistance and 12 paid holidays!
Women, Minorities, and Veterans Are Encouraged to Apply!
Essential Job Functions

• Oversees or engages in diverse accounting clerical duties pertaining to any combination of payroll, accounts payable or receivable, or automated billing or collection.
• Ensures accuracy of records; receives documents, checks for accuracy, and routes for timely payment.
• Performs discount calculations, investigates and solves payment problems or complaints, and tracks purchase orders, requisitions, construction contracts, or change orders; processes independent contractor payments.
• Develops and maintains spreadsheets used to track budget or other financial activity; monitors approval of expenditures.
• Develops collection procedures; generates billing accounts, updates system files, coordinates running various billing programs to generate electronic bills and transmit bills, post and balance receipts.
• Maintains customer accounts and records, generates invoices for payment, verifies payment and posting of accounts, monitors delinquent account activity.
• Reconciles accounts; verifies bank deposits of collections for taxes, fees, sales, services, leases, liens, loan payments, and rentals; distributes and reconciles petty cash.
• Oversees and monitors payroll preparation; enters data and researches discrepancies; records and documents direct deposit and court ordered wage attachments, maintains records of wage attachments or voluntary deductions. Prints paychecks, direct deposit advices, and distributes individual paychecks to departments for disbursement.
• Opens and closes payroll cycles and assists in year-end closing activities; responds to payroll related inquiries; trains other payroll personnel.
• Participates in development and maintenance of financial and human resource database management system; analyzes archived and processed information to assure quality.
• Enters, retrieves, and reviews accounting data from the centralized financial management system or source documents.
• Generates periodic accounting or statistical reports to management or regulatory agencies.
• Prepares state and federal grant reimbursement and advance forms; tracks expenditure of grant funds.
• Analyzes trends and assists in preparation of the annual operating or capital improvement budget or other regular reports.
• Reviews daily reports; monitors system performance and advises users of errors.
• Maintains collection system integrity and database; performs daily system backup, maintains system and user security, creates and modifies transaction codes.
• Coordinates input and annual update of tax rates, generation of annual tax bills; coordinates the actions required in yearly cyclical appraisal, billing, collection and distribution of taxes; monitors system performance and advises users of errors.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications
High School Diploma or GED equivalent and four (4) years of budget, accounting, billing or payroll support experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
Additional Requirements
Background investigation, including supervised drug screen, post offer/pre-employment medical screen; and verification of education, certifications, and licenses required prior to employment.
Additional Information

• Knowledge of City purchasing, budget and accounting systems.
• Knowledge of basic accounting principles.
• Knowledge of record-keeping procedures.
• Knowledge of modern office practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of travel policies and procedures.
• Skill in balancing a cash drawer.
• Skill in operating such standard office machines as a computer, calculator, copier, facsimile machine, and typewriter.
• Skill in preparing and maintaining files.
• Skill in establishing priorities and organizing work.
• Skill in public and interpersonal relations.
• Skill in oral and written communication.

CITY OF SAVANNAH EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Overview of Benefits
Paid Holiday
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
Defined Benefit Retirement Pension Plan
Protective Services Retirement Plan (select positions)
Deferred Compensation Retirement Plan
Retirement Seminars
PPO Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Wellness Programs
Health & Wellness Incentives
Long Term Disability
Excellence and Service Recognition
Employee Development and In-Service Training
Educational Assistance Program
Uniform Allowance (select positions)
Employee Assistance Program
Discounts and Memberships
Employee Relations
Direct Deposit
Credit Union
Pretax Parking Deductions
Employer Assisted Home Purchase Program
Domestic Partnership Benefits
Healthcare
PPO Medical Plus Plan
PPO Medical Basic Plan
Dental Plus Plan
Dental Basic Plan
Vision Service Plan
Life Insurance
Basic Life and ADD
Supplemental Life Employee
Supplemental Life Spouse
Supplemental Life Child
Benefits costs are paid by the City of Savannah, by the employee or shared by both the City and the employee.
01
Are you currently a City of Savannah employee?

• Yes
• No

02
Do you have a High School Diploma or GED?

• Yes
• No

03
Describe your professional work experience in budget analysis, including working with accounting principles and the relationship of revenue to expenditures. Include employers and dates of employment where this experience was obtained.
04
Describe your experience processing payroll related duties or other confidential personnel data management.
Required Question