• Job Description

  Req#: 4430383
  The Kings County Finance Department - Treasury Division is currently accepting applications for the position of Accounting Specialist - Treasury Operations. This role presents an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual with exceptional attention to detail and a passion for providing excellent customer service. We look forward to receiving your application. For more information, here is a video promoting the benefit of working in Kings County.
  
  DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
  The Accounting Specialist classification is utilized only in the Department of Finance. Incumbents perform highly specialized technical or sub-professional work in the oversight of the County's financial operations. This classification is distinguished from other County technical-level or sub-professional accounting classifications by its high degree of responsibility, initiative and independent judgment, and the depth of knowledge of cash accounting and financial analysis that is required. The incumbent reports to the Treasury Manager or the Assistant Director of Finance-Treasury Division, and provides lead or functional supervision of and may be supervisor to lower level accounting staff.
  Duties include but are not limited to those described below. Reasonable accommodation will be made when requested and determined by the County to be appropriate under applicable law.
  
  Coordinates, oversees, reconciles and processes the daily cash balancing and cash accounting of the Treasury Division of the Department of Finance; coordinates fiscal activities with the Department's Accounting Division, the Kings County Office of Education, County school districts and special districts, and other County departments; coordinates daily banking activity; ensures that all funds are deposited in a timely, consistent, accurate, and secure manner; balances and reconciles the treasury to the bank daily; maintains and controls the warrant issue file; oversees the warrant reconciliation process and correction of all exceptions, including MICR encoding errors, previously paid or wrong amount errors, and identification of forgeries; maintains and controls the Treasury Division's on-line cash accounting system; identifies discrepancies, corrects or directs correction, and reconciles any differences in the treasury accounting system to the bank, County, or Office of Education; audits the average daily balance and the interest apportionment process for accuracy; resolves discrepancies, initiates corrective action, and finalizes the interest apportionment process; balances the overall treasury on a daily basis and produces a treasury daily balance sheet of assets; maintains statistical database to produce daily, monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports and statistics for cash flow planning; coordinates monthly, quarterly and annual accounting system closing within the Finance Department and the Office of Education; prepares and files monthly financial reports; manages the electronic funds transfer (EFT) system of receipts and disbursements and assists depositors with completion of EFT forms; maintains and balances the treasury trust account; oversees the treasury record retention, scanning and storing system; in the absence of the Treasury Manager, performs investment duties; provides lead or functional supervision of and may be supervisor to lower level accounting staff, including training of new personnel.
  Please note: Work experience for the last 15 years must be included in the work history portion of your application. It is also important that your application show all the relevant education and experience that you possess, even if it extends beyond the required past 15 years. A resume may be attached, but is not a substitute for completing the application and supplemental questions. Failure to submit a completed application may eliminate you from the recruitment.
  
  Any combination of education and relevant experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required knowledge, skills and abilities would be:
  
  Education/Experience (Option 1): Completion of a bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in accounting, business, or a closely related field.
  
  OR
  
  Education/Experience (Option 2): Completion of an associate's degree from an accredited college (equivalent to 60 semester units) with major course work in accounting or a closely related field; AND two years of responsible technical or sub-professional experience with the treasury accounting system in a County treasurer's office, OR four years of responsible experience in the operations area of a bank. (Additional qualifying experience as described above may substitute for an associate's degree on a year-for-year basis.)
  
  For a detailed job specification of Accounting Specialist - Treasury Operations , click here.
  All completed applications and supplemental questionnaires will be reviewed. Depending upon the number of applicants who meet the minimum qualifications, the examination process may include a screening committee (pass/fail) and/or a written examination (pass/fail) and/or an oral examination (100%) which may include a written practical component to determine placement on the eligible list.
  
  VETERAN'S PREFERENCE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
  Veteran's Preference Application
  Must submit the request form and certified DD-214 prior to the closing date.
  
  

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