Accounting Technician II - Countywide Candidate Pool

ABOUT THE POSITION

The County of Riverside is seeking qualified Accounting Technician II.

This county-wide recruitment aims to create a Candidate Pool of qualified applicants for the permanent position of Accounting Technician II.

This pool will be available for regular permanent vacancies across all Departments within the County.

The Accounting Technician series is used in all County Departments to provide accounting services.

Incumbents in this class either function primarily as key assistants to professional accountants or other management staff performing the more difficult and complex paraprofessional accounting work or supervise a fiscal support unit in the financial function of an agency, large division or department.

HOW IT WORKS:
- Applicants will answer questions about location preferences, work experience, and qualifications.
- The most competitive applicants (based on specialized skills) will be referred
for interviews.
- Applicants will receive email notification once their application is no longer being
considered due to Candidate Pool expiration.

Some positions may require a law enforcement background investigation which requires completion of an extensive questionnaire, meeting with a background investigator, and submitting several references.

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EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES
(Depending on the area of assignment, duties may include, but are not limited to, the following)
• Performs specialized/technical review with final approval and control of fiscal records and accounts.

• Researches and resolves a variety of difficult problems independently through review of multiple records; exercises initiative in anticipating or identifying problems or errors and follows up to resolve; forecasts impact of potential actions/decisions.

• Interprets a wide variety of complex policies, procedures, regulations, contracts and agreements to determine their applicable provisions and clauses for assistance with difficult problems and circumstances.

• Performs final review of claims against the County which requires the verification of compliance with instructions, specifications and provisions of contracts which have complex terms and language that may be ambiguous and/or have potential for expenditure of large amounts of County funds.

• Supervises and reviews the work of a fiscal support unit; resolves difficult problems pertaining to the work of the staff; personally performs the more difficult work of the unit.

• Reviews work procedures and recommends changes to be more efficient.

• Trains staff in how to perform the work, including office/program policies and procedures.

• Analyzes procedural and/or technical problems; develops recommendations regarding resolution of other problems and/or resolves the problems; acts as a resource to staff.

• Provides support functions to m...