Account Clerk

Overview Calling all Account Clerks! Come grow your career with an organization that values and supports you to learn, grow, and develop.
Join our collaborative, supportive, and results-driven team in a role that provides the opportunity to bring your whole self to work.
Engage, lead, and drive your own learning and growth within the organization.
La Crosse County leaders are committed to provide a supportive and inclusive work environment and are dedicated to your learning and development to grow in an organization that is deep in talent.
This is a specialized position which entails various fiscal duties involving processing, recording and summarizing financial information for the Human Services Department (HSD).
Employees in this class provide paraprofessional accounting services utilizing generally accepted accounting principles.
This position requires limited supervision and reports to the Financial Manager and/or the Fiscal Supervisor.
This is a full-time position working Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm, remotely 4 days a week, and in-person 1 day a week.
Wage Range: $18.
27 - $21.
81 Associate Experience – What’s In It For You? Supportive, collaborative, inclusive, and diverse workforce.
Career learning, development, and growth opportunities.
Culture of respect and dignity, teamwork, honesty, and integrity.
Serving your community in a purposeful and meaningful way.
Flexibility with generous paid time-off benefits.
Excellent benefits: ••Wisconsin Retirement System - Very stable and strong ••Health Insurance with options for free care ••Dental Insurance with preventative and maintenance services covered at 100% ••Life Insurance with short and long-term disability We will be accepting applications until the right person is hired.
La Crosse County Respects Diversity Essential Job Functions Demonstrates self-leadership, seeks out opportunities for personal growth and development, accepts feedback and demonstrates ability to learn and apply.
Shares ideas and demonstrates respect, humility, honesty, and open-minded thinking.
Demonstrates flexibility, acceptance of change and emotional intelligence.
Takes initiative and demonstrates the ability to think critically and strategically.
Participates as a contributing member of the team and brings authentic self to discussions regarding all aspects of the work.
Demonstrates ability to build and maintain effective relationships.
Contributes positively to an inclusive workplace.
Compiles invoices, verifies payment authorization and rate of pay, determines funding source, and assigns general ledger account codes.
Prepares check requisitions, purchase order requisitions and interdepartmental services memos for submission to County Finance.
Processes travel reimbursements to employees.
Understands policies, ensures policies are being followed, and communicates with employee or supervisors, as needed.
Processes invoices to external parties for services incurred and amounts owed to the County.
Follows up with external parties, as needed, if payment is not received.
Assists in internal controls over receipting by opening mail and logging transactions.
Enters all accounting transactions into HSD data management system and reconciles to County general ledger system and various State information systems and reports.
Establishes and maintains detailed client demographic and fiscal records in HSD data management system.
Interviews clients, guardians and payees to obtain information needed to determine client's eligibility for County assistance and/or client's ability to pay for services received.
Enters charges and revenues received in computerized billing system and responds to various inquiries from clients, co-workers and third-party insurance providers regarding accounts via telephone and face-to-face.
Works with collection agencies to coordinate collection processes for delinquent client accounts.
Compiles fiscal and statistical data for supervisors and management staff utilizing spreadsheets, graphs, queries and/or other various computer software applications.
Provides support assuring vendor compliance with HSD provider contracts.
Assists in the implementation of internal and external quality assurance systems.
Maintains confidentiality for all work-related information.
Keeps current in job knowledge and attends training and staff meetings as required.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities •Considerable knowledge of operating computerized systems including the ability to utilize electronic accounting aids such as spreadsheets, databases, and other software applications.
•Ability to follow generally accepted accounting principles, La Crosse County Finance procedures and Human Services Department policies and guidelines.
•Ability to audit and reconcile financial records on a computerized accounting/data management system.
•Ability to perform arithmetic computations.
•Ability to maintain computer security and confidentiality.
•Ability to work with the public, providers, co-workers and agency clients.
•Must be bondable and pass background check suitable for handling money.
Training, Experience and Other Requirements •Associate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related.
•Experience in financial record-keeping including accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash receipting.
•Excellent organizational and analytical skills.
•Meticulous attention to detail.
•Proven proficiency and expertise in using Excel spreadsheets, MS Word and MS Outlook.
•May consider other combination of experience and training that provides the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the job duties.
Benefits for this position depend on the number of hours worked.
If the position is full-time, then benefits would be available.
If the position is part-time, then limited benefits would be available (this would not include insurances unless 30 hours per week or more).
If the hours are less-than-half-time, then there are no benefits available.