Accounting Assistant - Cash Handling & AR Clerk

State of Florida; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The State of Florida’s Department of Health seeks an Accountant I in Gainesville to support a broad range of accounting duties in a large county health department. This intermediate-level position reports to the Professional Accountant Supervisor-SES and involves cash handling, deposits, and file management daily.

Responsibilities include processing bank deposits, scanning and archiving documents, reconciling funds, and maintaining logs.

Qualifications

• Minimum - Experience handling cash and making deposits in a professional setting.
• Experience working with computers, printers & scanners in a professional job setting.
• Preferred - More than 1 year cash handling and deposit experience.
• Accounts Receivable experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepares deposit for transport to bank daily in accordance with DOH and local CHD Cash Handling policy.
• Scans checks deposited into the electronic file. Completes deposit logs.
• Provides all deposit supporting documentation with validated bank slip to designated staff for coding.
• Responsible for verification and reconciliation of funds received and end of cash drawer reports.
• Scans deposit files, records and other documents for the business office.
• Responsible for daily mail-in log receipts once transferred from mail-opener/courier.
• Provides backup support as needed for scanning of checks into appropriate folders.
• Returns checks to make upon request of program.
• Responsible for running debit memo reports in PALM and handling dishonored checks/payments per policy.

Skills

Cash handling

Customer service

Attention to detail

Communication

Organizational skills

Accounting basics

Computer literacy

Word processing

Excel

SharePoint

Tools

PALM

SharePoint

Excel

Printer

Scanner

Computers

Job description

The State of Florida’s Department of Health seeks an Accountant I in Gainesville to support a broad range of accounting duties in a large county health department. This intermediate-level position reports to the Professional Accountant Supervisor-SES and involves cash handling, deposits, and file management daily.

Responsibilities include processing bank deposits, scanning and archiving documents, reconciling funds, and maintaining logs.