Job Description
METER COLLECTION CLERK
JOB CODE 01290
| Effective Date: | Rev. 05/93A |
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The fundamental reason this classification exists is to empty parking meters in the downtown and outlying areas. For the remaining quarter of the job, employees perform clerical accounting duties, particularly processing payments and address changes. The routine work of this classification is performed according to established procedures with initial immediate supervision, but with decreasing supervision as experience and proficiency is gained until the standardized work routine is performed with some degree of independence. Work is reviewed by an Accountant I or Accountant II for accuracy, reliability, speed, and ability to deal with the public.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Empties parking meter coin boxes into mobile canister and winds certain meters after collection is made;
- Notifies Traffic Engineering of broken meters;
- Observes for change in volume of coins to guard against theft through use of key;
- Updates financial records and prepares routine reports and statements;
- Balances daily collections and disbursements and prepares reports;
- Posts a variety of items to individual accounts or other books and records;
- Compiles accounting statistics for reports;
- Prepares routine weekly and monthly financial reports;
- Operates office equipment such as cash registers, calculators, keyboard devices, microfilm and microfiche reader/printers, and copiers;
- Demonstrates continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Clerical bookkeeping practices.
- Office terminology, procedures, and equipment.
- Business arithmetic and English.
- Communicate orally in the English language with co-workers, customers, and the public using a telephone and two-way radio and in group, face-to-face, and one-on-one settings.
- Work cooperatively with other employees, customers, and the public.
- Learn job-related material primarily through oral instruction and observation. This learning takes place mainly in an on-the-job training setting.
- Produce documents written in the English language using proper sentence structure, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
- Make precise arm-hand positioning movements and maintain static, continuous, or repetitive arm-hand position.
- Walk over rough, uneven, or rocky surfaces.
- Perform arithmetical computations quickly and accurately.
- Move objects weighing more than 50 pounds distances more than 20 feet.
- Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
- Work in a variety of weather conditions with exposure to the elements.
- Operate a variety of office equipment.
Additional Requirements:
- Some positions require the use of personal or City vehicles on City business. Individuals must be physically capable of operating the vehicles safely, possess a valid driver license, and have an acceptable driving record. Use of a personal vehicle for City business will be prohibited if the employee is not authorized to drive a City vehicle or if the employee does not have personal insurance coverage.
- Some positions will require the performance of other essential and marginal functions depending upon work location, assignment, or shift.
ACCEPTABLE EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:
One year of clerical experience, supplemented by courses in bookkeeping. Other combinations of
experience and education that meet the minimum qualification may be substituted.