Job Description:

Job Summary

The Account Clerk I role supports emergency initiatives addressing homelessness by performing essential accounting and financial clerical duties under general supervision. This position assists with maintaining accounting records, processing financial documents, and supporting day-to-day accounting system operations related to public service programs.

Under an emergency hiring order, qualified candidates may be appointed for an initial limited-term period, with the opportunity to be considered for permanent employment based on performance evaluation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide clerical support to senior accounting staff responsible for daily accounting operations

  • Perform bookkeeping and financial recordkeeping tasks within established procedures

  • Sort, code, verify, post, balance, and file financial documents and accounting records

  • Assist with error identification, reconciliations, trial balances, and standardized financial reports

  • Support accounts payable, accounts receivable, trust accounting, or inventory control systems

  • Prepare payroll-related documents, requisitions, and inventory records as assigned

  • Operate office and bookkeeping equipment, including calculators, accounting machines, and computers

  • Conduct routine checks to verify accuracy of accounting documents and compliance with procedures

  • Perform data entry, computations, and document production using standard office technology

  • Carry out related clerical and financial tasks as required

Minimum Requirements

Option I

  • One year of clerical bookkeeping experience assisting with a double-entry accounting system, including coding transactions and posting and balancing ledgers, journals, and registers

Option II

  • One year of clerical experience maintaining financial or statistical records involving coding, recording, checking tabulations, and data computations

  • Completion of a high school-level course in bookkeeping or elementary accounting

Physical Requirements

  • Light physical activity, including occasional lifting up to 10 pounds

  • Some bending, stooping, squatting, and walking may be required

Assessment & Appointment

  • Performance during the initial appointment period will be evaluated

  • Successful performance may result in consideration for permanent appointment

Working Place:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Company :

2026 Jan 15th Virtual Fair - County of Los Angeles