Accounting Technician III

Finance and Accounting

Positions in this job family are assigned responsibility for performing paraprofessional technical work involving the maintenance and reporting of financial accounting data.  This includes maintenance of appropriate accounts, ledgers, journals, registers, and other financial records, reconciliation of various financial statements and documents, processing of various transactions for payment of invoices or expense vouchers, maintenance and processing of payroll data, and the preparation of routine or standard reports concerning financial operations and data.

This job family has four levels which are distinguished by the level of complexity of work assignments, level of expertise required to perform assigned tasks, and responsibilities for providing leadership to others.

Level III:   
This is the specialist level of this job family where employees are assigned responsibility for performing advanced technical accounting work.  This may include independent responsibility for maintaining all accounting records of a small fiscal unit or performing independent advanced specialized accounting tasks in a  fiscal division which is large in scope with several phases of accounting activity, such as separate accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll functions.

Level III:    
Education and Experience required at this level consists of one year of clerical, bookkeeping, or technical accounting experience PLUS two years of additional experience in performing technical accounting work; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting completion of six semester hours in accounting or bookkeeping at an accredited college or university for each six months of the required experience; or the completion of a vocational training course in accounting for the one year only of the required clerical, bookkeeping or technical accounting experience.