Accounting Specialist

Tehama County Health Services Agency is committed to a healthy community.  We provide integrated services to Tehama County residents through education, prevention, assessment, intervention, treatment, and follow up.  Our staff are valued for their contributions to client care, whether they work in direct services or are in key support roles.  We collaborate, communicate, and support each other so we can focus on what's most important, the overall health of our clients. Every position is a key position at Health Services.  We value input, good communication, and collaboration within our organization as well as with our agency partners.  If you would enjoy working with people who are committed to the health of our residents, then our agency would like to hear from you.

• Terminology and practices of financial and accounting document processing and record keeping, including payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and purchasing.

• Maintaining, auditing, verifying, and reconciling a variety of accounts, reports, journals, budgets, or related fiscal or statistical data; summarizing and posting data as required.
• Processing claims, invoices, purchase orders, payments, contracts, and bids, including maintaining complete and accurate records, auditing progress payments, and preparing the appropriate correspondence.
• Balancing financial information system controls; balancing and posting cash receipts, payments, and registers; and balancing various other statistical and financial transactions with source documents and controls. 
• Preparing and maintaining computerized financial spreadsheets on a personal computer for ledgers and statistical records; preparing reports summarizing information and financial records. 

• Perform detailed accounting and financial office support work accurately and in a timely manner.
• Learn prescribed formulas for calculation and reconciliation of assigned functions.
• Perform mathematical calculations with speed and accuracy.

• Equivalent to completion of the twelfth (12th) grade, AND four (4) years of increasingly responsible accounting experience, preferably with a government agency.
• Other combinations of education and experience may be considered.

• A valid California Class C driver’s license or alternative form of transportation may be required for some positions at the time of appointment.  Individuals who do not meet this requirement due to a disability will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

The department is currently recruiting to fill multiple vacancies.

In addition, Tehama County is establishing an eligibility list to fill future vacancies for an Accounting Specialist or Accounting Specialist - Bilingual, as well as subsequent vacancies which occur during the life of the eligibility list.

For questions about this recruitment contact:

Emily Unger | 530-527-8491 x3830 | [email protected] 

All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of background, fingerprinting, drug test and physical examination provided by the County.