Senior Accounting Assistant - Sheriff's Office in Riverside/Only Internal RSO Employees May Apply

The Riverside County Sheriff's Office is seeking to hire a Senior Accounting Assistants to support the Technical Services Bureau at the sheriff's station in Riverside.

These positions are exclusively available to current Sheriff's employees; external candidates will not be considered.

The selected individuals will be responsible for various accounting and fiscal tasks, which include researching and interpreting established guidelines.

Meet the Team!The law enforcement professionals of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office, with a staff of over 3,600 dedicated men and women, cover the expanse of over 7,300 square miles in southern California.

The Sheriff's Office is dedicated to serving the citizens of its communities with integrity, professionalism, leadership, and loyalty and believes in service above self.• Prepare reports on the status of service accounts, contracts, grants, fee receipts, entitlements and reimbursed programs, accounts receivable, accounts payable, trust accounts; prepare regular reports of revenues and expenditures which are sent directly to management.

• Answer questions that involve searching for and abstracting technical data and detailed explanations of laws, policies or procedures referring matters requiring policy decisions to a superior.

• Develop or assist in the development of software applications to collect and manipulate accounting data and fiscal information; prepare spreadsheets compiling revenue activity and trends for management use; reformat data or create specific reports, charts or graphs.

• Assist staff in solving, or personally respond to, the more complex and difficult inquiries; train and orient new staff members; review and correct work.

• Provide technical supervision to staff maintaining and compiling computer generated spreadsheets, tracking incoming revenue, auditing daily deposits reconciliations, preparing daily deposits and reconciliation and revenue distribution reports, posting and reconciling trust funds and revenue ledgers.

• Supervise a small number of lower level Accounting Assistants and clerical support staff.OPTION I

Experience: One year of experience as an Accounting Assistant II with the County of Riverside or an equivalent position.

OPTION II

Experience: Three years of experience in the review, reconciliation, and preparation of financial accounts.

(Substitution: One year of the required experience may be substituted with the completion of 12 semester or 18 quarter units in accounting from an accredited college.)

Knowledge of: Basic methods, practices, and terminology of fiscal record keeping, basic business mathematics; checks, money orders and other common negotiable instruments and their proper validation and endorsement; common methods of balancing cash and checks against records of receipt; methods of handling, recording and controlling monies received and disbursed; basic mathematical/fiscal computer applications; Basic payroll practices and procedures i...