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Description :
JOB DESCRIPTION Title : Finance Clerk FLSA Status : Non-Exempt Work Status : Part-Time Effective Date : 02 / 2025
GENERAL PURPOSE
We are seeking a highly skilled and organized Part-Time Finance Clerk to join our team at the Village of Glenwood. The Finance Clerk will assist with day-to-day accounting and office management practices. The Finance Clerk will need to perform daily tasks with attention to detail, speed and accuracy. Under supervision from the Finance Operations Manager. The Finance Clerk’s primary responsibility is accounts receivables functions. Additional daily tasks will include, but are not limited to, general clerical, including copying and filing, and providing support to the public at the front counter.
The salary range for this position is an hourly rate between $20.00 - $23.00 per hour. The work hours estimated for this position will range from 15-25 hours per week. The hours of operation for this role are from 8 : 30 am – 5 : 00 pm, CST.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Verifies, posts, and records a variety of financial transactions; prepares and maintains databases, records, and a variety of periodic and special financial, accounting, and statistical reports.
- Generate reports accordingly as needed by computer and balance them appropriately.
- Reconcile bank statements and file all bank statements.
- Accumulates information from external sources; calculates, posts, balances, and reconciles data for financial accounts.
- Identifies, traces, and otherwise resolves discrepancies in accordance with established procedures.
- Prepares journal entries for monthly closing.
- Keep records of all NSF checks returned from the Bank and provide communication to the responsible party for resolution.
- Entering Journal Entries into Glenwood’s financial system.
OTHER ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES :
Requirements :
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
1. Completion of 2 years of accounting-related college courses or 2 years of equivalent accounting-related work experience or a bachelor’s degree preferred.
2. Must have strong interpersonal communication skills.
3. Ability to work with minimal supervision.
4. Microsoft programs, Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand; talk or hear, walk and use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must frequently lift and / or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and / or move more than 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The Village may be a busy facility. The Finance Clerk may have to manage a number of projects at one time and may be interrupted frequently to meet the needs and requests of residents, clients and contractors. The Finance Clerk may find the environment to be busy, noisy and will need excellent organizational and time and stress management skills to complete the required tasks.
The Village of Glenwood is committed to diversity, open and honest hiring practices, justice in compensation and benefits, treating each person with respect and dignity, providing appropriate assistance in each person’s growth and spiritual development, and acting as a just steward of the resources entrusted to us.
In accordance with the regulations of the State of Illinois, the Village of Glenwood conducts background checks on all employees, contractors and volunteers.
The Village of Glenwood provides equal employment opportunity for all qualified persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, ethnicity, ancestry, military status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Salary : $20 - $23
