Career Opportunity

1632-Senior Account Clerk

Recruitment: RTF0129385-01118500

Published: December 06, 2022

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About:

Application Opening: Tuesday, December 6th 2022

Application Deadline: Monday, December 19th 2022

Compensation Range: $72,930 - $88,582/annual

Recruitment ID: TEX-1632-129386

The San Francisco Health Service System (SFHSS) is dedicated to preserving and improving sustainable, quality health benefits and to enhancing the well-being of employees, retirees and their families.

SFHSS negotiates, and administers, health and related benefits for HSS members in addition to leading and coordinating well-being programs and services for the SFHSS membership. To learn more, please visit http://myhss.org/.

The Finance Division consists of three units: Accounting, Budgeting and Procurement, and Contracts Administration.

The Accounting unit ensures the timeliness and accuracy of all SFHSS financial transactions, conducts the Charter-mandated 10-County survey, calculates annual premium rates, oversees the annual external audit of the Health Service Trust Fund, reports to the Health Service Board, and is responsible for developing and monitoring the Employee Benefit Trust Fund.

The Budgeting and Procurement unit is responsible for development and monitoring of the General Fund Administration and Healthcare Sustainability Fund budgets and management of the procurement of goods and services for the department.
 

The Contracts Administration unit manages the negotiation and execution of contractual agreements for the department, annual contract renewals, procurements and competitive solicitations, and contract performance evaluation programs, compliance and monitoring.

Role description

• Performs difficult financial record-keeping operations within complex accounting systems in order to ensure accurate balances and available budgeted funds.
• Prepares and processes all procurement documents for the Department for materials and supplies and professional services under $50,000.  Performs accounting transactions in FAMIS and ADPICS for all procurement including large contracts.  Ensures all City requirements are met.
• Performs tasks in software related to accounting, including databases, automated accounting systems, spreadsheets and word processing.
• Reviews invoices against eMerge and other databases to ensure accuracy and prepares accounting documents including journal entries and payment documents.
• Organizes and files source documents according to accepted practice.
• Verifies correctness of accounting documents by comparing postings to source documents and checking calculations for accuracy.
• Reconciles invoices to source documents using eMerge statistical reports, payment files and other source documents.
• Review and process post tax refunds for members.

How to qualify

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

These minimum qualifications are to be used as a guide for establishing the education, training, experience, special skills and/or license which may be required for employment in the class. Although these minimum qualifications are typical of the class, additional minimum qualifications and special conditions may apply to a particular position and will be stated on the job announcement.

Eighteen (18) months (equivalent to 3,000 hours) of verifiable experience processing financial and accounting matters (e.g. cost records, deposits, expenditures, allocations), bookkeeping and/or financial record keeping. Such experience typically includes verifying correctness of financial documents; maintaining expenditure records; and reconciling subsidiary accounts

Substitution of Experience:

15 semester units (or equivalent quarter units) of coursework from an accredited college or university with a minimum of 6 semester units (or equivalent quarter units) in accounting may be substituted for up to six (6) months of the required experience as described above.

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at https://sfdhr.org/how-verify-education-requirements

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications.
Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application.
Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility, disqualification or may lead to lower scores.

What else should I know?

Selection Procedures:

Applications materials including the cover letter and/or the updated resume will be reviewed for relevant qualifying experience.  Only those applicants who most closely meet the requirements for this position will be invited to participate in the selection process.  

HOW TO APPLY:
Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/ and begin the application process.
• Select the “I’m Interested” button and follow instruction on the screen 

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Exam Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the exam analyst at Rie Butler (rie.butler@sfgov.org).

CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT:  All City and County of San Francisco employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Someone is fully vaccinated when 14 days have passed since they received the final dose of a two-shot vaccine or a dose of a one-shot vaccine. Any new hire must present proof of full vaccination status to be appointed. Any new hire who will be routinely assigned or occasionally enter High-Risk Settings, must provide proof of having received a COVID-19 booster vaccine by March 1, 2022, or once eligible.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.