ACCOUNT CLERK I / COMMUNITY PROGRAMS- FINANCE

Account Clerk I

The Department of Health Services Community Programs (Housing for Health for Homelessness) and Office of Diversion and Reentry are seeking qualified candidates to fill Account Clerk I vacancies related to the homelessness crisis.

Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment. During the initial work period, you will be assessed on your work performance. Those who successfully pass the assessment will be considered for permanent appointment as Account Clerk I.

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) is the second largest municipal health system in the nation. Through its unified system of 23 health centers and four hospitals - and expanded network of community partner clinics DHS annually provides direct care for over 500,000 outstanding patients, employs over 23,000 staff, and has an annual budget of over $8.4 billion.

The mission of DHS is to advance the health of our patients and our communities by providing extraordinary care.

The definition of the job is to perform accounting clerical work in the maintenance of accounting records within a comprehensive established framework of procedures, under general supervision. This includes a departmental accounting system having approximately 200 appropriation and revenues accounts and cost centers, a segment of a general accounting system having approximately 2,000 appropriation, fund, proprietary, and revenue accounts and cost centers, an accounts payable, accounts receivable, or trust accounting system having approximately 5,000 active accounts, or a general accounting system or segment thereof having approximately 100,000 appropriation, fund, proprietary and revenue accounts and cost centers, or an accounts payable, accounts receivable, or trust accounting system having approximately 100,000 accounts.

The essential job functions include serving as a clerical assistant to a higher level in-charge accounting position, performing bookkeeping and associated financial-clerical work, performing all of the following tasks : sorting, coding, verifying, and filing financial documents, posting by hand, machine or, through the initiation of computer input, to registers and subsidiary ledgers, and balancing to controlling accounts, performing at least some of the following : locating and tracing both posting and coding errors; listing errors and required adjustments; taking trial balances; assisting in the reconciling of accounts with the Auditor's abstract; compiling prescribed financial-statistical data and preparing highly standardized reports; and performing other work such as preparing payrolls or requisitions providing that a major portion of the work involves a bookkeeping assignment of the character described elsewhere as needed.

The minimum requirements for the position are either one year's clerical experience in bookkeeping assisting in the maintenance of a double entry accounting system and associated subsidiary records involving coding transactions and posting and balancing of ledgers, journals, and registers, or one year's clerical experience in the maintenance of financial or statistical records involving the coding, recording, checking tabulations and computation of data and completion of a high school level course in bookkeeping or elementary accounting. Physical Class II - Light is required for this position.