Fiscal Specialist/Cash Bond - Clerk's Accounting Job at Polk County Clerk of Courts
Join a team of dedicated professionals in the Polk County Clerk of Courts office. The Clerk’s office has been recognized as a Best Places to Work—an award given by CareerSource Polk that is based on employee surveys and an evaluation by judges. The Clerk of Courts provides a very rich benefit plan which includes membership in the Florida Retirement System, health insurance, an employee wellness center, and an employee gym. There’s also a paid time off plan in which one can accrue twenty-two days of leave time in the first year of employment.
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Essential Attributes:
M/F/V/D:
Hiring rate: $14.00
Monday - Friday; 8am - 5pm: Click here for Veteran Preference
Essential Attributes:
- The Mission of the Clerk of Courts has a high degree of public accountability, regular attendance and punctuality is an essential function of this position.
- Support and comply with the Mission Statement and Code of Conduct of the Clerk of Courts.
- Maintain a high standard relating to attendance, appearance, accuracy and professional conduct and behavior.
- Work cooperatively with other employees of the work unit and embrace a teamwork approach to completing tasks.
- Process in and out of county cash bonds.
- Process cash bond checks for refunds back to depositors.
- Process cash bond checks back to Clerk for payments on Criminal cases and post check and information in case management system.
- Input cash bond paper work from the Sheriff Dept into the PC system.
- Balance daily deposit of cash bond monies to the PC system.
- Perform cashiering responsibilities, balance checks/cash daily to sub-total print out.
- Process weekly Jury payroll checks.
- Balance monthly jury check register to jury checks subledger.
- Receive, count, and verify cash and other negotiable instruments prior to validation.
- Assist counter and phone customers relating to cash bond questions.
- Balance month end cash bond funds to Oracle system.
- Process purge payments and bond estreature and deliver to various offices.
- Input funds collected for bond forfeitures on spreadsheet – daily – balance monthly to Oracle.
- Post payments to case management system, look up defendants history in case management for cash bond information.
- Process remission checks for surety bond forfeitures.
- Ability to multi-task as needed.
- Being able to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- All other duties as assigned.
- Graduate of an accredited high school or possess an acceptable equivalency diploma.
- Ability to work cooperatively as a team member with other employees of the Division and without close supervision.
- Ability to set high standards for staff relating to attendance, appearance, general office conduct and behavior.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Ability to assume leadership role, make sound decisions, and maintain high levels of customer service.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and manage work to meet necessary time requirements, performance measures, and work load.
- Ability to write routine correspondence and reports, and speak effectively to internal and external customers.
- Ability to apply job-related Florida statutes, courtroom procedures, guidelines for effective jury management and Clerk’s policies and procedures.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
- Ability to remain flexible as conditions/procedures change and continue effective performance.
- Ability to operate a PC and/or mainframe, word processing, spreadsheet software applications, and keyboard data input devices, including calculator and general office machines with proficiency, including 10-key calculator.
- Ability to research resource materials.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
- Ability to read, write and speak English. Bilingual applicants are encouraged to apply.
- Six months related job experience and/or training.
- Applicant must have the physical, developmental, and mental ability to perform job tasks, work efforts, responsibilities and duties of the job illustrated above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel; and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust to focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
M/F/V/D:
Hiring rate: $14.00
Monday - Friday; 8am - 5pm: Click here for Veteran Preference
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