Accounting, Accounting Software, Administrative Skills, Bookkeeping, Cafeteria, Communication Skills, Customer/Client Research, Develop and Maintain Customers, Financial Reporting, Financial Statements, Food Services, Office Equipment, PC Software, Peripheral Hardware, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Profit & Loss Statements, Reconciliation, Record Keeping, Regulations, Reporting Skills, Team Player, Technical Writing, Time Management
BASIC FUNCTION:
To provide support for the central accounting system by accurately and on a timely basis, completing and reporting the daily school cafeteria account data.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:
Food Service Account Clerk incumbents perform routine and repetitive accounting clerical duties which are structured and closely supervised.
REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES:
- Learn and apply District procedures and policies.
- Reconcile final count of cash from breakfast and lunch receipts.
- Maintain various records, reports, documents and files as directed; distribute reports as assigned.
- Prepare deposits and ready cash for shipment to authorized depository.
- Prepare Form (D-12) (cash and count reconciliation sheet) for proper authorization and submission of it to the central office food service department.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
ABILITIES:
ABILITY TO:
- Perform complex and advanced level accounting duties in the maintenance of assigned accounts. .
- Prepare, verify, process and control an assigned major payroll.
- Perform responsible record-keeping duties with a high degree of skill and accuracy.
- Verify, balance and adjust accounts.
- Process and record accounting transactions accurately.
- Prepare financial statements, profit and loss statements and other technical financial reporting documents.
- Learn, interpret, apply and explain rules, regulations, policies and procedures related to school district payroll, utility payments and food service accounting.
- Operate office machines including computer equipment, personal computer, accounting software and peripherals.
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide quickly and accurately.
- Understand and follow oral and written directions.
- Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others.
- Meet schedules and time lines.
- Work confidentially with discretion.
- Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Complete work with many interruptions.
- Type at an acceptable rate of speed.
- Maintain records and prepare reports.
- Train and provide work direction to others.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Any combination equivalent to: high school diploma, G.E.D. Certificate or demonstrated progress toward obtaining a G.E.D. as required by Kentucky law and two years of increasingly responsible financial record-keeping experience including experience with automated record keeping systems.