Accounting Clerk

Responsibilities

The Accounting Clerk supports the financial management and operations of the Credit Union through processing and maintenance of accounting transactions, records and reports. Essential duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Posts journal entries, processes payments, verifies information, and reconciles accounts.
• Maintains files and records according to retention schedules.
• Performs supporting administrative tasks within accounting department including but not limited to: processing mail, archiving accounting records, researching transactions, processing compliance checks and assisting others within the department as needed.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Must be legally eligible for employment in the United States.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must have obtained a high school diploma or GED.
• Must be available to work a schedule based on operating hours.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• One year to three years of similar or related experience.
• Some college or technical school course work, preferably in Accounting.
• Well-developed communication and member service skill, attentiveness, information retention, tact and diplomacy necessary to communicate with members and co-workers.
• Detail oriented, high degree of accuracy in order to deal with numbers and names.
• The ability to make sound decisions. This may include making on-the-spot decisions regarding member transactions; weighing member satisfaction issue with the Credit Union's exposure to loss or fraud and the ability to think through and rationalize decisions.
• Competence with computers and computer keyboard by touch, knowledge of general office machines, 10-key calculator and spreadsheet software.
• Basic mathematical skills required; adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.
  
  

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:

• Regularly required to talk and hear.
• Work is typically sedentary with prolonged period of sitting at a desk and working on a computer, but may require standing and walking up to 10 percent of the time.
• Lifting up to 15 pounds is occasionally required.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
  
  

Reasonable accommodation may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Job Status: Full-Time, Non-Exempt

Locaction: 2 The Credit Union Way, Fairmont, WV 26554

Pay: From $16.00 per hour. Compensation commensurate of experience and qualifications.

If you need assistance in seeking a job opportunity at Fairmont Federal Credit Union, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please call 304-363-5320 or contact us online.

Fairmont Federal Credit Union is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, Protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. This organization participates in E-Verify.

Fairmont Federal Credit Union reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower grade level based on business need. Fairmont Federal Credit Union assesses market data to establish salary ranges that enable us to remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range, based on your experience, location and market position.