What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fiscal Specialist D- Clerk's Accounting position at Polk County Clerk of Courts?
Join a team of dedicated professionals in the Polk County Clerk of Courts office. The Clerk’s office has been recognized as a Best Places to Work—an award given by CareerSource Polk that is based on employee surveys and an evaluation by judges. The Clerk of Courts provides a very rich benefit plan which includes membership in the Florida Retirement System, health insurance, an employee wellness center, and an employee gym. There’s also a paid time off plan in which one can accrue twenty-two days of leave time in the first year of employment.:
Essential Attributes::
Essential Tasks: :
Minimum Skills / Qualifications::
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M/F/V/D:
Hiring rate: $16.00
Monday - Friday; 8am - 5pm:
Click here for Veteran Preference
Essential Attributes::
- The Mission of the Clerk of Courts has a high degree of public accountability, regular attendance and punctuality is an essential function of this position.
- Support and comply with the Mission Statement and Code of Conduct of the Clerk of Courts.
- Maintain a high standard relating to professional conduct and behavior.
- Work cooperatively with other employees of the work unit and embrace a teamwork approach to completing tasks.
Essential Tasks: :
- Build Receivables for Probation Payments for the Probation Department.
- Receive and process daily work from Probation Department.
- Balance money orders from daily recap from Probation Department.
- Process paperwork for probation refunds and probation restitution payments.
- Balance and verify daily financial activities and correct errors.
- Prepare and input daily financial transactions on New Vision, ShowCase, and Oracle applications.
- Verify financial transactions and maintain records for audits.
- Update spreadsheets and Access database for probation refunds and restitution and work with Accountant II to ensure monthly balancing completed at month end.
- Process incoming payments from outside collection agencies, Linebarger & AllianceOne, in New Vision application.
- Provide cashiering and customer service backup to front counter.
- Scan all case related accounts payable paperwork to cases in New Vision.
- Balance change fund for the office with another staff member.
- Build receivables and conversion cases.
- Process ACS hour adjustment requests from Court Payments & Compliance.
- Provides a high quality of service to both internal and external customers.
- Covers jobs of other employees as needed in their absence to ensure deadlines are met
- Being able to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- All other duties as assigned.
Minimum Skills / Qualifications::
- High School diploma or (General Education Diploma) GED. Significant history of related job responsibilities may be considered in lieu of minimum educational requirements.
- Ability to acquire or have knowledge of current procedures to accomplish tasks within areas of department’s overall operation and workflow.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and manage work to meet necessary time requirements and workload.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as policies and procedures as they relate to job tasks.
- Knowledge or experience with Oracle, preferred.
- Proficiency in use of Word and Excel.
- Ability to pay attention to detail and to produce accurate data entry.
- Ability to demonstrate decision-making, problem-solving, and analytical skills
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Ability to accurately type 25 wpm and operate adding machine (10 key).
- Ability to communicate well with people from varied backgrounds.
- Ability to maintain attention to detail and to remain calm in an intense environment.
- Ability to speak effectively to customers or employees of the organization and read and write English. Bilingual applicants are encouraged to apply.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
Physical Requirements:
- Applicant must have the physical, developmental and mental ability to perform job tasks, work efforts, responsibilities and duties of the job illustrated above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust to focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. :
M/F/V/D:
Hiring rate: $16.00
Monday - Friday; 8am - 5pm:
Click here for Veteran Preference
Salary : $16
