Senior Account Clerk (1632) (As-Needed) - Finance and Accounting - San Francisco Recreation and Parks

Company Description

Application Opening: October 14, 2025

Application Deadline: Apply Immediately. Application filing will be open at least through October 24, 2025, and may close any time thereafter.

Contact: For questions about this position or how to apply, please contact Absar Khan at Absar.Khan@sfgov.org

About Us

Amid a dynamic and ever-evolving urban landscape, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department stewards one of the premier urban park systems in America.  San Francisco recently became the first city in the United States for which 100% of its residents live within a ten-minute walk of a park.  Considered by San Franciscans to be one of the City’s most popular and effective public agencies, our Department manages and maintains more than 225 parks, playgrounds, and open spaces in San Francisco, including two outside of city limits: Sharp Park in Pacifica and Camp Mather in the High Sierras. Our 4,100- acre system includes 25 recreation centers, 9 swimming pools, 5 golf courses and numerous athletic facilities, including sports courts, ball diamonds, soccer fields and gymnasiums. Included in the department’s responsibilities are Golden Gate Park, Coit Tower, the Marina Yacht Harbor, the Palace of Fine Arts, and TPC Harding Park golf course.

More than 2,000 talented individuals are part of our team, from gardeners, foresters, and recreation leaders to park patrol officers, custodians, electricians, painters and more. Our core mission, as it has been throughout our history, is to provide opportunities for San Francisco residents and visitors alike to gather, play, learn, relax, and enjoy nature in the city.

Job Description

Under general supervision, performs difficult bookkeeping and financial record keeping operations within complex accounting systems and may direct the work of a small clerical staff. Incumbents interpret, enforce and carry out existing policies and procedures relative to financial record keeping activities; make regular contacts with other departmental personnel and the general public in connection with bookkeeping and financial operations; prepare and maintain a variety of complex financial and bookkeeping records and reports; post, adjust and balance entries to ledgers; verify the correctness of accounting documents; respond to inquiries and provide financial information; organize and file source documents; perform operations involving automated accounting systems and spreadsheet programs and perform related duties as required.

Essential Functions:

1. Performs difficult bookkeeping and financial record-keeping operations within complex accounting systems in order to ensure accurate balances and available budgeted funds.

2. Posts, adjusts and balances entries to subsidiary ledgers by searching out details and reconciling account discrepancies.

3. Verifies correctness of accounting documents by comparing postings to source documents and checking calculations for accuracy.

4. Responds to inquiries and provides financial information to other units, individuals and the general public regarding the status of accounts, payments, issuance of checks and availability of balances by extracting information from documents and answering questions.

5. Organizes and files source documents according to accepted practice.

6. Performs tasks in software related to accounting, including databases, automated accounting systems, spreadsheets and word processing.

7. Calculates encumbered balances of blanket purchase orders and contract orders to ensure that funds are available for payment.

8. Identifies discrepancies between departmental records and the City's accounting system.

9. Assists in the compilation of financial data for accounting and financial purposes.

10. Prepares accounting documents including requisitions for purchase orders, journal entries, encumbrances and payment documents.

11. Performs mathematical calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in order to arrive at correct balances when working on financial and accounting matters such as cost records, deposits, expenditures, allocations, taxes and penalties.

12. Reconciles bank statements and revolving fund balances.

13. Prepares basic financial schedules and reports using spreadsheet programs such as Lotus, Excel and QuattroPro.

14. May direct the work of a small clerical staff.

15. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Please note that incumbents in this classification may be required to perform duties as listed in the class specification 1632 -Senior Account Clerk | City and County of San Francisco (sf.gov).   

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