Account Clerk III - Neighborhood Services Department

at  City of Phoenix

ABOUT THIS POSITION

The Neighborhood Services Department (NSD) is dedicated to making Phoenix a community of desirable neighborhoods and helping residents access critical services and resources. To achieve these goals, NSD administers a number of programs that preserve, enhance, and engage communities across the City. NSD is currently seeking an Account Clerk III U8, who is responsible for performing payroll-type activities, including the accurate processing and review of payroll data and records. The Account Clerk IIIU8 is also responsible for the accurate processing of shopping carts, goods receipts, invoices, and reports. The Account Clerk III*U8 reports directly to the Budget Analyst II.

Duties may include:

• Enters, compiles, and reviews human resources forms and payroll data.
• Creates, updates, and maintains clerical, statistical, and human resources and payroll records.
• Prepares regular and special reports from human resources and payroll records.
• Reads, interprets: and explains technical material such as Personnel Payroll Rules.
• Performs arithmetic such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and statistics.
• Creates and maintains shopping carts for the department.
• Researches, prepares, and processes Payment Control Documents.
• Creates and maintains sales orders for the Department.
• Prepares various financial-related reports and records.
• Responds to inquiries and requests for information from vendors, other City departments, and customers.

This position may be assigned special research projects, computer data entry, and answering questions from customers and internal departments. The Account Clerk III *U8 will have the ability to continuously improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service. The successful candidate will have well-developed competencies in complex decision-making, effective communication, personal and interpersonal skills, and managing deadlines. Currently, there is one vacancy in the Neighborhood Services Department Administrative Services Division.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Three years of bookkeeping and clerical accounting experience,
• including experience in preparing financial reports,
• supplemented by courses in bookkeeping and accounting.
• Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
• The City job description can be found here.
• All finalists for positions are subject to a criminal background check applicable to the department or position.For information regarding pre-screening and driving positions,
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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

The minimum qualifications listed above, plus:

• Three years of experience with Account Payable practices.
• Three years of experience in performing highly detailed data entry in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with computerized payroll processing systems.

• Enters, compiles, and reviews human resources forms and payroll data.
• Creates, updates, and maintains clerical, statistical, and human resources and payroll records.
• Prepares regular and special reports from human resources and payroll records.
• Reads, interprets: and explains technical material such as Personnel Payroll Rules.
• Performs arithmetic such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and statistics.
• Creates and maintains shopping carts for the department.
• Researches, prepares, and processes Payment Control Documents.
• Creates and maintains sales orders for the Department.
• Prepares various financial-related reports and records.
• Responds to inquiries and requests for information from vendors, other City departments, and customers