Recruitment #25-0150-01
Date Opened: 5/5/2025 12:00:00 AM
Filing Deadline: 6/2/2025 5:00:00 PM
Salary: $56.18 - $68.24/hour; $116,854.40 - $141,939.20/year
Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time Employment
HR Analyst: Rosario Jones
Department: Auditor-Controller
Work Location: Oakland, CA
Type of Recruitment: New, open, assembled
INTRODUCTION:
THIS IS A NEW ASSEMBLED EXAMINATION. The eligible list resulting from this examination will cancel any existing list and may last approximately one year but can be extended.
Supplemental Questionnaire: A properly completed Supplemental Questionnaire must be submitted with each application. Failure to submit the Application or Supplemental Questionnaire will result in disqualification.
Applications and supplemental questionnaires must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing.
APPLICATIONS AND SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THIS RECRUITMENT WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED ONLINE.
DESCRIPTION:
THE AGENCY:
The Alameda County Auditor-Controller Agency is a general government agency which provides direct services to County residents as well as administrative and operational support to County departments. The Agency develops and maintains the County’s accounting, payroll, audit, tax analysis, budget and grants, contract compliance, and cost plan systems and procedures. The Central Collections Department collects receivables mandated by State and federal laws and regulations. The Office of the Clerk-Recorder provides for the recording of all recordable documents and maps, collection and distribution of fees and taxes from recording documents, and maintenance of the vital statistics register.
THE POSITION:
This specification describes a classification which performs and/or manages the performance of various complex auditing, fiscal accounting, collection, or clerk-recorder functions within the Auditor Agency.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
EITHER I
Education:
Possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university (180 quarter units or 120 semester units). Concentration in accounting, business administration, finance or a closely related field is desired.
And Experience:
The equivalent of one year full-time experience as a Senior Auditor or in an equivalent or higher class in the Alameda County classified service. (Non-classified includes District Attorney’s Office, Hospital Authority and the consolidated Courts.)
OR
Experience:
The equivalent of three years full-time experience in a professional accounting, auditing or administrative position. Supervisory experience is highly desired. Additional experience may be substituted for the degree on a year for year basis.
OR II
Education and Experience:
Any combination of education from an accredited college or university and relevant experience as described in patterns above. Supervisory experience is highly desired.
License:
Possession of a valid California Motor Vehicle Operator’s License.
Special Requirements
Employees may be required to provide their own means of transportation to and from work assignments.
NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications in the announcement of an examination.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
The most suitably qualified candidates will possess the following competencies:
Knowledge of:
• Principles of personnel and public administration
• Laws and regulations controlling County fiscal, accounting, collections or recording operations
• Generally accepted accounting and auditing standards, principles and practices
• Methods of analysis and decision-making
• Computerized systems for accounting, collections or recording
• Use of word processing, spreadsheet, database and other personal computer applications relevant to conducting the work
Ability to:
• Apply general and governmental accounting, personnel and administration principles and practices
• Lead staff and interdisciplinary work groups
• Work with the public and other County departmental personnel
• Problem solving, research; using fiscal and report documents to perform analysis
• Plan, manage and perform complex auditing, accounting and administrative tasks
• Direct the work of others
• Use personal computer based spreadsheet, planning/scheduling, reporting, word processing, internet, and e-mail programs to prepare clear and concise reports and other correspondence
• Communicate effectively via oral and written word
• Prepare analysis and procedures for various business processes
• Adapt and lead others, in changing work situations
EXAMINATION COMPONENTS:
THE EXAMINATION WILL CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING STEPS:
1.) A review of applicants' applications and supplemental questionnaire to verify possession of minimum requirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for the class will move on to the next step in the examination process.
2.) A review of the supplemental questionnaire to determine best qualified. Those candidates considered the best qualified will move on to the next step in the examination process.
3.) An oral interview which will be weighted as 100% of the candidate's final examination score. The oral interview may contain situational exercises.
CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACH PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION.
We reserve the right to make changes to the announced examination components.
Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit. Such a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equal opportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designed to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform duties of the vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted and specific to the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, the eligible list may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Other recruitments may be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or for other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.