ACCOUNT CLERK II

Why Work For Us?

With almost 10 million residents, Los Angeles County is the most populous county in the nation! As the largest employer in Southern California with over 100,000 employees in 39 departments, we provide vital and diverse public services like law enforcement, property assessment, public health protection, water conservation, and cultural activities.

The County has more than 2,100 different job types, offering a lifetime of opportunities and careers! We are dedicated professionals committed to preserving the dignity and integrity of the workplace as well as protecting the rights of each employee. Join us and discover one of the strongest public-sector benefits packages in the county with a rich selection of health care options, robust retirement plans, and the flexibility to work, relax, and rejuvenate to reach your fullest personal and professional potential.

• Highly dedicated and committed to their work, with the ability to interact and work well in a team environment.
• Exhibit a proactive, positive attitude and strong interpersonal skills.
• Have an outstanding work ethic and consistently achieve interpersonal goals and objectives.
• Driven and goal-oriented with a strong desire to succeed.

• Serve as a clerical assistant to a higher-level accounting position responsible for the day-to-day operation of the accounting system.
• Perform a variety of the more difficult and complex bookkeeping and associated financial-clerical work, including sorting, coding, verifying, and filing financial documents to registers and subsidiary ledgers.
• Maintain records of a small general accounting system, or accounts receivable, accounts payable, or trust accounting system.
• Distribute both direct and indirect costs to an established job or hospital cost accounting system.
• Assist in the balancing of accounts with the Auditor's abstract.
• Compile prescribed financial-statistical data.
• Prepare highly standardized reports, such as sales tax, mileage, and collection reports, or other reports reflecting current account balances.
• Reconcile bank accounts affecting the balances of a large group of funds or revenue accounts and involving a large number of transactions.
• Supervise and perform inventory control work.
• Maintain a large-scale system of stock and equipment accounts.
• Investigate and explain differences between book value and physical inventories of supplies and equipment.
• Compute inventory adjustments resulting from price changes, depreciation, and accrued expenses and revenues.
• Prepare complex claims for reimbursement.
• Perform work that requires the skilled use of desk calculators, bookkeeping machines, adding machines, and typewriters, as needed.

For more information, please view the classification specification: Account Clerk II

Requirements to Qualify:

One year of accounting clerical experience at the level of Account Clerk I*.

Endorsement of County Qualifications:
If you performed work that differs from the duties described in your class specification and believe you qualify for this opportunity, please provide verification via official documentation of additional responsibility bonus, out-of-class bonus, temporary assignment bonus or reclassification study with CEO Classification within seven (7) calendar days from the last day of filing. Employees do not need to submit such verification if they hold or have held a position that regularly performs functions in alignment with the requirements

Once we have identified that you meet our requirements, an invitation regarding the following assessment processes will be sent.

Part I: Multiple-choice and/or simulation assessment(s), weighted 50%, assessing:

• Data Entry Skills
• Conscientiousness
• Service Professionalism
• Quantitative Ability
• Drive for Success
• Numerical Calculation

Part II: Multiple-choice and/or simulation assessment(s), weighted 50%, assessing:

• Accounts Payable: Purchase Orders, Invoices and Claims, and Expense Vouchers.
• Accounts Receivable: Invoice Processing, Check and Cash Receipts, Aging Reports, and Vendor Registrations
• Microsoft Excel 365: Basic Text and Cell Formatting, Visual Enhancements, Using Functions and Formulas, Printing an Excel Workbook, Applying Passwords and Encryption to an Excel Workbook, Conditional Formatting, and Charts and Data Tables

Applicants may be invited to participate in both Part I and Part II. However, only those who meet the Requirements to Qualify and receive a passing score of 70% or higher in Part I will have Part II scored.

• Applicants who are concurrently applying to the Account Clerk I, R0577O-R exam will only need to take identical test assessments once.
• If you have taken identical assessments recently for other exams, your responses may be automatically transferred to this exam.
• This examination contains test components that may be used on future exams, and your responses could be transferred to those exams.

• Various information can be found on our website at https://hr.lacounty.gov/job-search-toolkit/. The section dedicated to test preparation is "Employment Test Assistance." 

• Online practice tests are available at https://www.shldirect.com/en-us/practice-tests. You can also visit our Los Angeles County Online Assessment Preparation Series webpage at https://lacounty.attract.neogov.com/la-county-online-assessments-prep-series for information about common online assessment types, sample questions, and test-taking tips.

Eligibility and Vacancy Information:
Applicants who passed the assessment(s) are placed on a list for a period of six (6) months. We will use this list to fill vacancies throughout Los Angeles County, as they occur.

Please fill out the application completely. Provide relevant experience, including employer's name and address, job title, beginning and ending dates, number of hours worked per week, and description of work performed. 

We may verify information included in the application at any point during the examination and hiring process, including after an appointment has been made. Falsification of information could result in the refusal of the application or the rescission of the appointment. Copying verbiage from the Requirements or class specification as your work experience will not be sufficient to demonstrate meeting the requirements. Doing so may result in an incomplete application and may lead to disqualification.

We will send notifications to the email address provided in the application, so it is important that a valid email address is provided. Applicants who unsubscribe or opt out of email communications may access notices by logging into governmentjobs.com and reviewing the profile inbox. It is every applicant's responsibility to take steps to view correspondence, and we will not consider claims of missing notices to be a valid reason for rescheduling an exam part. Add the email addresses below to your approved sender list to prevent notifications from being filtered as spam or junk mail.

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New email addresses need to be verified. This only needs to be done once per email address and can be done at any time by logging in to governmentjobs.com and following the prompts. This is to enhance the security of the online application and to prevent incorrectly entered email addresses.

Federal law requires that all employed persons have a Social Security Number, so include yours when applying.

For candidates who may not have regular access to a computer or the internet, applications can be completed on computers at public libraries throughout Los Angeles County.

All applicants must file their application online using their own user ID and password. Using a family member's or friend's login information may erase a candidate's original application record.

Anti-Racism, Diversity, and Inclusion (ARDI):
The County of Los Angeles recognizes and affirms that all people are created equal and are entitled to all rights afforded by the Constitution of the United States. The Department of Human Resources is committed to promoting anti-racism, diversity, and inclusion efforts to address the inequalities and disparities among races. We support the ARDI Strategic Plan and its goals by improving equality, diversity, and inclusion in recruitment, selection, and employment practices.