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ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN

City of Chicago • Chicago, IL • 1d ago

Description:

BID/JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

DEPARTMENT OF FLEET AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT

Bureau of Facility Operations/Bureau of Finance and Administration

Number of Positions: 2

(Additional vacancies possible pending budget approval)

Starting Annual Salary: $55,344.00/year

These positions are open to the public and all current City employees covered under the City's collective bargaining agreement with AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES (AFSCME) - BARGAINING UNIT 1, 3, 4 & 5. Only employees in City job titles in this bargaining unit are eligible to bid.

BID INSTRUCTIONS: Apply on the bid site: https://chicago.taleo.net/careersection/103/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en AND

Check the box on your profile titled "Currently employed by the City of Chicago"
Enter your employee ID (located on your pay stub labeled 'payee/employee number')
Select your correct bargaining unit

FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL RESULT IN A REJECTED BID APPLICATION

Applications for this position will be accepted from 7/21/25 until 11:59pm CDT on 8/4/25

The Department of Fleet and Facility Management is seeking Accounting Technicians to perform paraprofessional accounting and auditing duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Bureau of Facility Operations

· Performs spreadsheet analysis

· Verifies and enters vendor estimate forms, requisitions, modifications, receipts, and payment vouchers into accounting system.

· Audits requisitions, receipts, and payment vouchers to ensure entries are accurate, appropriately allocated to accounts, and comply with contract and funding guidelines, and documents errors and reconciles accounts.

· Audit and enters employee reimbursement vouchers

· Checks and reviews audited vouchers to ensure accuracy and conformance to established accounting procedures.

Bureau of Finance and Administration

· Creates and audits requisitions for payments, receipts, and payment vouchers to ensure entries are accurate, appropriately allocated to accounts, and comply with contract and funding

· Communicates and responds to inquiries with vendors, internal bureaus and external departments

· Creating invoices for internal bureaus to request payments and inputting checks received for the departments into the system

· Responsible for submitting payment for leases, graphics, postage, utilities etc.

· Data entry

Additional duties may be required for this position.

Location: 1869 West Pershing Road and 2 North LaSalle Street

Days: Monday-Friday

Hours: 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Facilities Operations), 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM (Finance and Administration)

THIS POSITION IS IN THE CAREER SERVICE

Qualifications:

Two (2) years of paraprofessional accounting or auditing experience, or an equivalent combination of training and experience

SELECTION REQUIREMENTS

This position requires applicants to complete an interview. The interviewed candidate(s) possessing the qualifications best suited to fulfill the responsibilities of the position will be selected.

For Information on our employees benefits please visit our benefits website at:

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/fin/benefits-office.html

For Information on our salary and title structure visit our classifications website at:

https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/dhr/supp\info/JobClassification/2025\Classification\and\Pay_Plan.pdf

APPLICATION EVALUATION : Initial evaluation will be based on information provided on the application and the documents submitted.? Department of Human Resource staff will review applications after the final posting date. Staff will follow any and all required Employment/Hiring Plan provisions, federal, state and local laws, and Collective Bargaining Agreements when applicable. Staff will apply hiring preferences as required by the municipal code. Placement on an eligibility list is not an offer or guarantee of an interview nor employment with the City of Chicago.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY : To further our commitment to hiring applicants with diverse experience the City of Chicago has adopted the following ordinances 2-74-020 and 2-74-075. The ordinances provide a preference to applicants who meet minimum qualifications and who are veterans of the Armed Forces, and/or residents of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Areas (SEDA) and/or Chicago Public School (CPS) high school graduates to be referred to departments for consideration. These hiring preferences do not apply to bidders, as Collective Bargaining Agreements define the hiring process for bidders. For positions covered by a collective bargaining agreement, bidders will be considered before external candidates. To learn more about our hiring practices click here.

ALL REFERENCES TO POLITICAL SPONSORSHIP OR RECOMMENDATION MUST BE OMITTED FROM ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS SUBMITTED FOR CITY EMPLOYMENT.

The City of Chicago is an Equal Employment Opportunity, Military Friendly, and Fair Chance Employer.

City of Chicago

Brandon Johnson, Mayor

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