Recruitment# 3303
California State University, Dominguez Hills, was established in 1960 and is one of the 23 campuses that comprise The California State University system. CSU Dominguez Hills is an urban, comprehensive public university that serves a culturally rich, diverse student body of over 12,500 students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Located on a 346-acre site in the South Bay portion of the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, CSU Dominguez Hills has a highly pluralistic student body, which includes a significant number of non-traditional, working adult students as well as approximately 2,000 students enrolled in distance learning programs statewide. The University, with its five Academic Colleges, has more than 300 full-time faculty members and is situated in an area characterized by an extraordinary heterogeneity of people, and an extensive array of high technology industries and professional services.
Conditions of Employment:
Satisfactory completion of a background check (including a criminal records check) is required for employment. CSU will make a conditional offer of employment, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the continued employment of a current CSU employee who was conditionally offered the position.
Position Information:
This is a full-time, permanent (probationary) position.
Department: Accounting Services
The Accounting Services department operates within the area of the Administration and Finance division. Accounting Services is responsible for maintaining all financial records in all state funds for the university including all disbursements, receipting, depositing, recording, reconciling, and reporting activities necessary to provide accurate financial data. The functional areas in the department are: General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Student Financial Services. Student Financial Services include Cashiers, Student Account Service and Collection, and Student Accounting. This position supports Accounts Payable and General Accounting.
Major Job Duties:
Under general direction of the Accounting Services Manager, the Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for processing vendor payments for the University and for Associated Students, Inc., California State University, Dominguez Hills (ASI). The payment functions performed include the matching of vendor invoices with related purchase orders or contracts and receiving documents, the issuance of checks to pay such invoices, and the processing of travel authorizations and related claims. The incumbent also is responsible for the periodic review of purchase order balances to ensure their accuracy. The incumbent interacts with ASI employees and campus employees from other departments and with vendors of the University.
Qualifications:
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge:
Thorough knowledge of financial record-keeping, mathematical and general office methods, procedures, and practices.
Abilities:
Ability to review financial documents for accuracy, completeness, validity, and adherence to standards; compute and post numbers rapidly and accurately; maintain files and records; identify, trace, and correct errors; follow directions; establish and maintain effective working relationships with others; exercise tact, courtesy, alertness, and good judgment in responding to others; and read and write English at a level appropriate to the position. In addition, the incumbent must be able to apply accounting procedures and practices to the analysis of basic accounting problems; analyze and interpret accounting data; apply problem solving techniques in finding solutions to basic accounting problems; understand, interpret and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies, and procedures; use current computer word processing and spreadsheet software programs, web browsers, query tools, integrated financial systems and/or other types of records management systems, such as student accounting, cashiering and student financial aid; work independently; and make sound decisions and recommendations regarding accounting activities.
Experience and Education:
Required Education: Any equivalent combination of education and experience which provides the required knowledge and abilities.
Required Experience: Equivalent to three years of progressively responsible financial record-keeping experience which has provided the above knowledge and abilities.
Salary Range:
The salary range for this classification is: $3,010 - $5,136 monthly.
How to apply: You can only apply by completing an electronic application at the campus job web site at https://www.csudh.edu/hr/job-opportunities/. Click on "view job opportunities" under "New and returning applicants." View the list of jobs and click on the one with the job title listed above. The application deadline is: Tuesday, May 29, 2018.
CSU Dominguez Hills is an Equal Opportunity /ADA Employer.
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Human Resources Management
1000 E. Victoria St.
Carson, CA 90747
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