Reviews and checks complex account-keeping records and reports for accuracy; maintains control accounts and verifies balance with subsidiary accounts; takes trial balances of control accounts; performs accounting adjustments for unusual transactions or irregularities; maintains cost records and compiles reports for such records; Classifies a variety of receipts and expenditures and distributes items according to prescribed code; posts to journal or ledger accounts from a variety of original entry media; prepares summary statements of ledger balances; verifies and summarizes totals of receipts with monthly register of revenues; Assigns, reviews and records work done; instructs new employees in the specialized account-keeping and clerical work of the unit; exercises control over employees posting and checking records; Receives remittances by mail or in person, verifies amount, computes interest and penalties and posts to book of original entry; issues receipts for monies received; Prepares, compiles, verifies, researches, inputs, accounts payable vouchers; reconciles vendor statements; Compiles data, prepares, inputs and analyzes complex financial and statistical records and reports; Supervises activities of a central payroll unit engaged in checking, verifying and distributing departmental payrolls; compiles payroll data and prepares, inputs and checks payrolls; Conducts physical inventories and reconciles results with actual book figures; compiles, prepares and inputs labor, material and operational cost records and reports; Inputs receipts, payrolls, requisitions, vouchers and other materials from copy or rough drafts; enters and retrieves data from computerized records; Processes, inputs, sorts, indexes, records and files a variety of records and reports; Assists in preparing departmental or unit budget and maintaining budgetary control; assists in preparing budget transfers and reallocation of funds and capital outlay substitutions; Inputs billings and file maintenance for miscellaneous charges; Operates calculating and other office machines; Performs related duties as required. Good knowledge of the principles and practices used in checking and maintaining financial accounts and records; Good knowledge of office terminology, procedures and equipment; Working knowledge of account-keeping principles and practices and payroll compilation; Ability to make arithmetic computations rapidly and accurately; Ability to understand and interpret written, statistical and tabular material; Ability to operate equipment with an alpha-numeric keyboard i.e. personal computers, in the use of application programs; Ability to carry out oral and written directions; Ability to write legibly; Ability to get along well with others; Clerical aptitude; accuracy; Physical condition commensurate with the demands of the position.