Accounting Clerk I - G113 - Police Department

• Files and maintains the time book. Works with timekeepers to ensure that all employee time is recorded correctly.
• Assists employees and the public with information; answers the telephone and forwards calls. Performs background checks.
• Processes forms and reports.
• Updates information in Personnel Manager database. Prepares, audits and maintains payroll for the Columbus Police Department.
• Enters Personnel Action Forms into the City Advantage 360 Payroll System. Arranges physical exams, drug tests, and fingerprinting for new employees.
• Evaluate new requests to determine what Department records are being requested, and seek clarification from requestors as needed.
• Analyze the requested records or the expected number and type of records from the internal sources and, within the required three business days of receipt, either provide the records to the requester or a reasonable estimate of time for providing the records, including an estimate of costs.
• Analyze the requested records or the expected number and type of records from the internal sources and, within the required three business days of receipt, either provide the records to the requester or a reasonable estimate of time for providing the records, including an estimate of costs.

• Determine whether a request seeks evidence for criminal investigations or cases and communicate with the requester for additional steps to releasable, responsive documents.
• Conduct accurate legal analysis to redact all information that is protected according to state and federal law. Records that require review and redaction include paper documents, electronic files, photographs, videos, and audio files.
• Provide a requestor with each legal basis for every redaction, including every document lawfully withheld from disclosure.
• Maintain a working knowledge of the Georgia Open Records Act and department training related to the Act.
• Determine the appropriate source of requested records within the department. Extensive research may be required, depending on the type of record requested.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of public purchasing and accounts payable. Knowledge of relevant federal and state laws, local ordinances, and department policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of basic accounting principles.
• Knowledge of basic mathematical computations.
• Knowledge of bookkeeping principles.
• Knowledge of department practices and procedures for payroll.
• Knowledge of general office procedures and practices.
• Skill in utilizing financial computer software programs.
• Skill in problem-solving and decision-making. Skill in operating standard office equipment. Skill in oral and written communication. Skill in providing exemplary customer service.
• Skill in organizing work, setting priorities, and meeting critical deadlines.
• Skill in the operation of standard office equipment.
• Skill in the operation of computers and work-related applications. Skill in oral and written communication.

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education.  Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years.

The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or table. The employee must occasionally lift light objects.

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word
• Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.

The work is typically performed in an office, library, or computer room.

Salary : $16