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Accounting Technician III

Salary

$41,502.98 - $69,341.11 Annually

Location

Norfolk VA 23510, VA

Job Type

Special Project w/Retirement

Job Number

13244

Department

The Slover

Division

Slover Operations

Opening Date

10/01/2025

Closing Date

10/11/2025 11:59 PM Eastern

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Description

The Slover is a beautiful venue and multi-use facility in downtown Norfolk with a mission to be a premier destination for residents and visitors to enjoy. The Slover supports a thriving downtown by encouraging tourism, providing resources for entrepreneurs, and housing the Downtown Branch at Slover library component.

The Downtown Branch at Slover invites applications for a full-time Accounting Technician III position to join our Operations Team. Success in this position draws on the incumbent’s competencies in maintaining accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing systems, payroll records, time sheets, and related documents. Assists in accounting for capital improvement projects. Performs administrative duties. Assists with budget preparation and monitoring budgetary accounts. Performs financial duties. Processes transactions and prepares checks for distribution. Enters purchase and pay documents into the City’s financial system. Perform responsible clerical accounting in the auditing, preparation, and processing of financial, personnel, time, and leave actions, statistical records, and documents; may serve as a lead worker supervising and assisting subordinate accounting technicians and other clerical staff; and may be required to perform a highly specialized financial record keeping function.

Department Hiring Salary Range: $41,503-$47,728

Essential Functions

Essential functions include but are not limited to:

+ Performs financial duties by processing transactions and preparing checks for distribution, processing sales and transfers, receiving, compiling and depositing monies into accounts, monitoring petty cash, performing calculations to determine benefits, performing assessments of court orders and tax data, entering data into the system to process payroll, reconciling and balancing cash drawers, setting up vendor accounts, verifying payments, processing vouchers, requisitions and other documents for payment, preparing reports, entering data into the financial system, reconciling accounts, processing journal vouchers and invoices, maintaining files, reviewing invoices for payment and consulting with vendors regarding accounts.

+ Assists with capital improvement projects by processing contract payments, preparing monthly status reports and calculating engineering and inspection charges for multiple projects.

+ Performs administrative duties by answering and directing telephone inquiries, typing, compiling data for reports, filing documents, processing various reports, resolving administrative personnel issues, maintaining files, compiling information, and keeping logs, writing correspondence, and providing information.

+ Assists with budget preparation and monitoring budgetary accounts by reviewing financial files, inputting the budget into the budget request system, making recommendations, gathering, and analyzing data and preparing statistical and financial reports.

+ Performs other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience

Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature which may be obtained with one/two years of advanced study or training past the high school equivalency. Junior college, vocational, business, technical or correspondence schools are likely sources. Appropriate certification may be awarded upon satisfactory completion of advanced study or training.

Four years' experience in bookkeeping or accounting.

Additional Information & Requirements

Working Hours: This position is full-time/Special Projects. Typical work schedules fall between 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Monday-Friday.

+ Regular full-time and permanent part-time employees may receive paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, employer paid pension plan, basic life insurance, voluntary participation in medical and dental, Section 457 deferred compensation, long-term disability, optional life insurance for self, spouse and children, medical and dependent care reimbursement plans, access to membership in credit union and employer provided parking.

+ Special project/grant employees are generally eligible for the same benefits of regular full-time employees; however, retirement, life insurance and participation in health plans vary depending upon funding and authorization.

+ Temporary/seasonal and part-time employees are generally only eligible for employer provided parking and access to membership in credit union.

+ Retirement

If you are hired October 5, 2010, or after to a position with City of Norfolk Retirement System benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.

If you are hired January 1, 2022, or after to a position with Virginia Retirement System (VRS) benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.

+ The Tuition Assistance Program is established to encourage employees toward continued self-development and education. Permanent full-time and permanent part-time classified, unclassified permanent, full-time special projects, and constitutional employees who have completed six months continuous service will be eligible to apply. The applicant’s school of enrollment must be an accredited institution.

NOTE:

The benefits described above are broad generalizations. The specific benefits that an employee may be eligible for are governed by City regulations, as applicable to job type.

Non-City

Positions listed with a job type designation of "Non-City" are not subject to the benefits descriptions above. Refer to the content of the job posting for information regarding these positions.

01

The following Supplemental Questions are specific to the position for which you have applied to assist the hiring manager in screening applications for specific experience being sought. Please be specific in answering these questions as they will be used to evaluate which applications will be given further consideration in the process. Do not answer "see resume" or "see application" as these are not valid answers. Please note that if you are invited to be interviewed by the department, your responses to the following questions may be subject to verification.

+ I understand and will answer the following supplemental questions completely and thoroughly.

02

Are you a current City of Norfolk employee?

+ Yes

+ No

03

If you were referred for this position by a current City of Norfolk employee, please provide the employee's full name, department, and job title. If not, please indicate by typing "N/A."

04

Please select the highest level of education you have completed.

+ High School Diploma/GED

+ Some College (6 months or more)

+ Vocational/Technical Degree

+ Associate's Degree

+ Bachelor's Degree or higher

05

How many years of experience do you have in accounting or bookkeeping?

+ Less than 1 year of experience

+ 1-3 years of experience

+ 3-5 years of experience

+ More than 5 years of experience

+ No experience

06

Please provide an explanation of any periods of unemployment that are 30 days or longer. Indicate N/A if you have not experienced any periods of unemployment.

07

A conviction (felony or misdemeanor) does not necessarily eliminate you from employment consideration. A criminal background check is conducted on all new hires. Failure to disclose all criminal convictions may result in disqualification from employment consideration or may result in dismissal from City of Norfolk employment if you have been hired. The nature of the offense; the time that has passed since the offense, conduct and/or completion of the sentence; and the nature of the job sought may be taken into consideration. Have you ever been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor?

+ I have been convicted of a felony

+ I have been convicted of a misdemeanor

+ I have been convicted of a felony and a misdemeanor

+ I have not been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor

08

If you answered, that you have been convicted of a felony and/or a misdemeanor, please provide an explanation including the city, state and date of the conviction. This excludes minor traffic violations such as speeding tickets.

09

Please indicate your veteran status. (A copy of your long form DD-214 may be required)

+ I am not a Veteran

+ I am a Veteran

+ I am a Disabled Veteran

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