Overview
From $41,300 to $50,884 Annually
110 State Street
Albany, NY 12236
No Exam Required Under NY HELPS
- One year of clerical experience.
Other Ways to Qualify:
- You're currently reachable on the appropriate eligible list for this title,
- You're eligible under the 55 b/c program, OR
- For 70.1 or 70.4 transfer to an Office Assistant 2 (Calculations), salary grade (SG)-09, you must have one year of permanent competitive, or 55-b/55-c service in an approved title for transfer allocated to an SG-07 or above.
To determine if your current Civil Service title is eligible for transfer to this title, visit the Career Mobility GOT-IT website. Appointments must not result in a second, consecutive transfer with an advancement of more than two S-grades.
Duties
- Answer questions from and provide information to various parties regarding agency activities, transactions, and procedures. Refer inquiries as necessary.
- Perform routine processing activities, including checking forms for completeness and accuracy.
- Receive, screen, review, and verify documents, forms, applications, claims, and other documents for completeness, content, and accuracy.
- Enter data and information into and retrieve data and information from computerized systems.
- Verify data previously transcribed or entered to detect errors.
- Perform various clerical or office assistance tasks such as scanning documents and verifying accuracy of data from scanned documents.
- Design clerical processing procedures.
- Gather, compile, and prepare data from manual or automated files and other sources for various reports, publications, records, or other external or internal communications.
- Respond to questions concerning the operation of the unit or program area.
- Write responses to correspondence.
- Resolve work problems.
- Review forms and applications and make appropriate determinations.
- Maintain basic financial, accounting, and/or statistical records.
- Perform calculations and computations, primarily on computers and calculators, using known and standard formulas and methods.
- As needed and as directed, contact various internal and external parties to obtain information.
- Prepare, process, review, and record numerical transactions and records. This activity may include processing bills and vouchers; reviewing or auditing calculations or statistics; or disbursing or receiving items of value such as cash or vouchers, including, for example, such tasks as calculating and collecting fees.
Desired Competencies
- Ability to communicate with diverse people effectively and appropriately on varying levels, both within the Agency as well as outside organizations
- Experience processing payments or reimbursements through the Statewide Financial System (SFS).
- Strong attention to detail
- Knowledge of State Finance Law
- Knowledge of the NYS Guide to Financial Operations (GFO).
- Ability to manage multiple priorities to meet deadlines.
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to think and work independently as well as learn new things and to adjust to change.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Exercises good judgement: the ability to address routine work with little need for direction and understand when to seek direction on non-routine matters.
- Takes initiative.
- Ability to stay focused on work and complete assignments in a highly dynamic environment.
Cover Letter & Resume
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