Salary : $72,003.00 - $92,395.92 Annually
Location : Menifee, CA
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Number: 2026-41
Department: Finance
Opening Date: 09/22/2026
Closing Date: 10/4/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

THE POSITION
Under general supervision, performs a variety of complex paraprofessional accounting duties in the preparation, maintenance, and processing of accounting records and financial transactions, including payroll, accounts payable, and accounts receivable; maintains City financial accounts and records and assists in the preparation of financial reports and analysis; provides responsible technical accounting support to professional staff in the Finance Department; and performs related work as required.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED
Receives general supervision from the Finance Manager or Finance Director. May exercise technical and function direction over to lower-level staff.

CLASS CHARACTERISTICS
This is the advanced journey-level and para-professional class in the Accounting Technician series. Employees perform the full range of technical work in all of the following areas: payroll, accounts receivable, and accounts payable, in addition to performing a wide variety of record-keeping, reconciliation, and account support activities. Employees at this level are distinguished from the Accounting Technician II and Accounting Technician I by the level of responsibility assumed and the complexity of the work assigned. Employees perform the most complex and responsible types of duties assigned to the class series, exercising a high level of independent judgment and initiative. Positions at this level receive only occasional instruction or assistance as new or unusual situations arise and are fully aware of the operating procedures and policies of the work unit.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Record-Keeping & Reporting: Maintains financial accounts, ledgers, registers, and journals according to established policies; posts, balances, and adjusts manual and computerized financial records. Assists in preparing monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial reports.
• Payroll & Timekeeping: Coordinates timekeeping activities and maintains automated employee attendance and payroll records. Calculates, reviews, and processes payroll documents, changes, adjustments, and warrant registers.
• Accounts Payable & Receivable: Verifies, posts, and records financial transactions. Researches invoices, matches purchase orders, sets up new vendor accounts, tracks invoices, prints checks, and reconciles credit card accounts. Invoices projects with negative balances and inputs daily cash receipts and general journal entries.
• Budget & Compliance Monitoring: Monitors department expenditures against budget accounts to ensure up-to-date fund balance accuracy, researches discrepancies, and prepares adjustment requests. Prepares final warrant registers and checks reports for City Council ratification.
• Customer Service & Support: Responds to vendor inquiries, confers with city departments regarding requisitions and purchasing procedures, and provides high-level customer service to the public, vendors, and staff.

Essential functions and class characteristics can be found by viewing the job description for the Senior Accounting Technician click here. Information about the examination process, minimum qualifications, and eligibility are detailed below.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCEAny combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the required qualifications would be:

• Senior Accounting Technician: Equivalent to graduation from high school supplemented by college coursework from an accredited college leading to an Associate's Degree in Accounting or a related field and five (5) years of progressively responsible and complex accounting, payroll, and purchasing experience including some lead worker experience. A Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or a related field is highly desirable.

Must possess mobility to work in a standard office setting and use standard office equipment, including a computer; vision to read printed materials and a computer screen; and hearing and speech to communicate in person, before groups, and over the telephone. This is primarily a sedentary office classification although standing in work areas and walking between work areas may be required. Finger dexterity is needed to access, enter, and retrieve data using a computer keyboard or calculator and to operate standard office equipment. Positions in this classification occasionally bend, stoop, kneel, reach, push, and pull drawers open and closed to retrieve and file information. Employees must possess the ability to lift, carry, push, and pull materials and objects weighing up to 25 pounds.
Click here for a PDF of the City of Menifee's Benefits
01

Please indicate the highest level of education that you have completed.

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Some college (less than 59 semester/89 quarter units)
• Associate's Degree or Equivalent (at least 60 semester/90 quarter units)
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• I do not have a high school diploma or equivalent.

02

If you selected Associate's Degree or Higher in the previous question, please enter what field your degree is in.
03

Do you have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, or a higher-level degree, in business, finance, accounting, economics or a related field?

• Yes
• No

04

How many years of progressively responsible and complex accounting, payroll, and purchasing experience do you have?

• Less than three years
• At least three years
• At least three years but less than five years
• At least five years
• Five years but less than six
• Six years or more

05

Which of the following do you have experience with? (Check all that apply)Finance

• a. Cashiering
• b. Balancing cash drawer
• c. Methods of handling, recording and controlling monies received and disbursed
• d. Posting financial transactions to accounts or journals or ledgers;
• e. Reconciling differences found between account records
• f. Common methods of balancing cash and checks against records of receipt
• g. Payroll
• h. Techniques for providing a high level of customer service

Required Question