Advanced Clerk Typist & Data Specialist

ecc; Town of Amherst (NY); On-site; USD 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

SUNY Erie Community College seeks a Clerk Typist in the Community Education department. The role involves typing accounting and financial statements, payrolls, and data; handling file indexes; preparing payrolls; and assisting with proofreading and routine correspondence.

Under supervision, you will operate office machines, transcribe data to a computer, maintain petty cash records, and support enhanced computer systems for clerical tasks.

Qualifications

• Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma, including or supplemented by a course in typing and one year of office clerical experience.
• Completion of a one year or longer post high school secretarial course, which included typing, may be substituted for the required experience.

Responsibilities

• Types accounting and financial statements, payrolls, statistical tabulations and data, for letters, memoranda, vouchers, reports, requisitions and other material.
• Reviews accounts, reports and other documents for completeness, accuracy and conformity with established procedures.
• Indexes and files documents and correspondence.
• Searches, locates, and records papers and documents.
• Assembles a variety of data from office records for incorporation into various reports.
• Prepares payrolls and maintains time cards.
• Composes and types routine correspondence.
• Assists in proofreading typewritten and printed material.
• Answers telephone, gives routine information to the public and makes appointments for superior.
• Operates an adding machine, calculator or other office machines.
• Collects and maintains records of fees collected by department.
• Operates an alpha-numeric keyboard to transcribe data directly to a computer.
• Maintains records of petty cash fund.
• Utilizes enhanced computer systems and equipment in the completion of assigned clerical tasks.

Skills

Typing

Office clerical experience

English

Business arithmetic

Attention to detail

Neatness

Education

High school diploma or HSE including typing

Secretarial course substitution allowed

Tools

Alpha-numeric keyboard

Office machines

Job description

SUNY Erie Community College seeks a Clerk Typist in the Community Education department. The role involves typing accounting and financial statements, payrolls, and data; handling file indexes; preparing payrolls; and assisting with proofreading and routine correspondence.

Under supervision, you will operate office machines, transcribe data to a computer, maintain petty cash records, and support enhanced computer systems for clerical tasks.