Accounting Tech

Job Title: Accounting Tech
Job Location: Salinas, CA
Job Duration: 2-3 Months (possibility of extension)
Shift: Monday – Friday 8:00am – 4:30pm
Payrate: $30/ hr. on w2

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Process changes, corrections, and updates to employee payroll, time and leave records and vendor records.
• Provides customer service by answering employee/vendor inquiries and resolving any discrepancies in payroll or vendor records.
• Process employment verification based on requests received from Federal, State, and local governments and financial institutions.
• Computes garnishments and other court-ordered payments each pay period. Prepares documentation to initiate deductions.
• Reconciles deduction registers and initiates check requests to disburse funds.
• Maintains records of military leave, jury duty, disability, and workers' compensation to ensure receipt of proper documentation, determines amount to collect for dual payments.
• Reviews payroll reports, documents and audit trails for completeness and accuracy, correcting any noted discrepancies.
• Processes payroll; receives, sorts, and distributes reports received as a result of payroll processing.
• Opens, stamps, sorts, delivers mail within General Accounting Department.
• Matches, codes, and key vendor invoices/credit memos with purchase orders.
• Follows through with Materials Management to resolve discrepancies.
• Matches vendor checks to documentation, prepares checks for mailing or other disbursement.
• Prints and disburses accounts payable, payroll, and refund checks.
• Processes adjusted checks, stop payment orders and replacement checks.
• Files all check documentation.
• Accurately interprets and applies Hospital and Departmental policies as they relate to employee/vendor issues and inquires.
• Processes Accounts Receivable for outside services.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Work requires knowledge generally acquired through a high school education or GED.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Three (3) or more years of accounting/bookkeeping with at least one year in payroll.

Essential Technical/Motor Skills:

• Sufficient manual dexterity to operate adding machine by touch at 250 strokes per minute.
• Ability to operate a computer.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Ability to effectively communicate and interact with others.
• Patience, ability to maintain composure in stressful situations.
• Effective problem solving skills and a genuine caring approach to the needs and feelings of others.

Essential Mental Abilities:

• Basic computer knowledge, analytical and reasoning skills, aptitude for numbers, high level of mental concentration on multiple tasks performed simultaneously with frequent interruptions and stressful conditions.
• Must maintain strict confidentiality of A/P and P/R data.

Essential Sensory Requirements:

• Must be able to hear, see, verbally communicate, and tactile sense.

Other Requirements:

• Proficient in Excel.