Tax Clerk II - G117 Tax Commissioner's Office

This position performs clerical and customer service duties in support of office operations.

• Assists the general public with questions or concerns; refers individuals to appropriate personnel.
• Accounts for and balances all daily collections; records financial information; prepares and balances daily reports and daily bank deposits; verifies check totals and currency.
• Maintains office inventory.
• Maintains and balances petty cash fund.
• Issues and renews tags and titles, motor vehicle license plates and decals, Disabled Person parking placards, and other County inventory; collects sales tax on title-required vehicles’; processes property tax payments, mortgage escrow accounts, and refund requests.
• Issues relocation permits and decals for mobile homes; conducts site visits to mobile home parks for decal compliance.
• Interprets state and local policies, procedures, and laws related to motor vehicles and property taxes.
• Enters and retrieves information from DRIVES and IasWorld computer systems.
• Operates a multi-line phone system.
• Mails property tax bills, delinquent notices, and mobile home bills.
• Opens, processes, and distributes mail.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of relevant state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances and departmental policy including sales tax codes and exemptions, use tax, and similar regulations.
• Knowledge of Georgia Registration and Titling Information Services procedures.
• Knowledge of the principles of records management.
• Knowledge of basic computer skills including Microsoft Office (Word and Excel) and related computer software programs.
• Skill in basic arithmetic, problem solving, and critical thinking.
• Skill in interpersonal relations.
• Skill in oral and written communication.
• Ability to work independently and with minimum supervision.

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years.

The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or table or while intermittently sitting, standing, bending, crouching, or stooping. The employee frequently lifts light and heavy objects, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and must be able to distinguish between shades of color.

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Climbing – ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.
• Crawling – moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.

The work is typically performed in an office.

Salary : $18