Account Specialist - Cash Receipting

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About the Position

The Accounting Specialist monitors, processes, and ensures accounting practices and security controls for the various primary functions of the Financial Management Bureau related to inmate accounting, travel, accounts payable and receivable. This position maintains compliance with state and federal laws, and County and MCSO Policies and Procedures.

About the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office:

Do you possess integrity, strong interpersonal skills, and do you have a desire to serve your community? We are seeking passionate individuals to join our team with a variety of openings for Civilian, Detention and Sworn personnel. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) invites you to become part of Arizona's leading law enforcement agency where we come together as a team to support and provide public safety.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

We recognize your time is valuable, so please apply if you meet the following required qualifications:

Education

• High school diploma or GED

Experience

• Two (2) years of accounting, bookkeeping or specialized administrative experience.

OR

Combined education and experience qualifications

• Post-secondary education in accounting, finance or in a related field may substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

Other requirements

• Training that may be provided on-the-job: FEMA NIMS - IS100 and 700; Safety; Payroll; PREA.
• Prior to hiring, the Sheriff's Office requires that all candidates pass a background review.

Our Preferred Candidate has

• Associate's Degree or higher in Accounting or related field.
• Accounts payableand receivable, cash receipting, or travel processing experience.

Compensation is more than a salary with MCSO:

• Growth and stability since 1871
• Choice of three medical plans - starting as low as $70/month
• Holidays - 10/year + 1 personal day
• Enrollment in Arizona State Retirement System
• Paid sick and parental leaves (birth/adoption)
• 10% discount at KinderCare facilities in the Valley and upcomingMCKids Club to serve County employees and their families exclusively
• MCSO Mentoring program to provide personal and professional growth opportunities for all employees
• Access to free County gyms
• Learn more at Benefits Overview

ESSENTIAL JOB TASKS:

The tasks listed are a representation and not an all-inclusive list of essential job tasks for this position.

• Prepares journal vouchers and other general ledger entries.
• Data entry for accounting transactions into General Ledger.
• Audits and reconciles billing.
• Process RICO disbursements, maintain ledgers, registers, and records.
• Process daily CACTAS reports and updates including bonds and fines, and inmate funds accounts for distribution to command staff.
• Monitors, balances, and reconciles funds as required.
• Reconciles cash storage balance reports.
• Monitors and verifies the accuracy of all checks and electronic transfers.
• Processes bank deposits.
• Researches and resolves inmate grievances regarding inmate accounts.
• Records daily cash receipts for account receivables.
• Walks over to the Department of Finance twice a week.
• Assist the travel coordinator with daily duties as assigned.
• Back-up the Inmate Account Specialist duties as needed.

Working Conditions
Maricopa County is an EEO/ADA Reasonable Accommodation Employer.

The following environments described are only representative of how the essential job tasks are currently performed or envisioned. As such, in order to accommodate a disability or limitation, the essential job tasks may be performed in ways other than described on these pages.

This position requires walking .25 miles to an adjacent building twice a week.

Position includes team-oriented activities and interaction with all levels of County management and personnel. Responsibilities require concentration, accuracy, ethical conduct and a professional demeanor.

Work environment:

• Indoors
  

Physical environment:

• Sitting, standing, walking
• Speaking, hearing, seeing, reading
• Bending/kneeling, reaching, crouching
• Lifting floor to waist twenty-five (25) pounds
• Lifting waist to shoulder twenty-five (25) pounds
• Lifting shoulder to overhead twenty-five (25) pounds
• Carrying a weight of twenty-five (25) pounds for a distance of 100 feet
• Pushing/pulling a weight of twenty-five (25) pounds for a distance of 100 feet
  

Social environment:

• Interruptions, time pressures
• Handling multiple or complicated tasks, unscheduled tasks
• Accuracy
• Decision making
• Concentration/vigilance
• Working in close proximity with others
• Conditions frequently include high volume of work, frequently changing tasks, teamwork, public contact
• Conditions may rarely include emergencies, isolation, overtime/rotating shifts

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge of

• Microsoft Office Suite applications.
• Accounting principles, practices, and methods.
• Standard office practices and procedures.

Skill in

• Preparing accurate and complete financial reports.
• Maintaining and creating spreadsheets.

Ability to

• Analyze and interpret fiscal and accounting records.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Communicate successfully in oral and written formats.

SELECTION PROCEDURE:

The hiring authority will select the successful candidate based on departmental needs.

All offers of employment made to new hires and rehires at Maricopa County are contingent upon successful completion of a post-offer, pre-employment thorough background investigation. A background investigation is conducted on a current employee who changes to a Safety Sensitive Position or one having the potential for serious adverse impact on the integrity or efficiency of the County. These requirements do not pertain to employees of elected officials who undergo background investigation processes administered through their respective offices.

Typically, successful candidates are hired at a salary rate, up to midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience, internal equity and budgetary allowances.

Selection Procedure

• Only the most qualified candidates will be considered

• Consideration will only be given to candidates who submit online applications

• Candidates will be contacted primarily through email and their Workday online application profile

• Must pass a pre-employment background and/or fingerprint investigation as required by statute or policy, including drug and alcohol testing requirements for positions designated as safety-sensitive

Maricopa County is an equal opportunity employer.

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