The NYS Department of Tax and Finance is actively recruiting temporary employees.
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Open mail and prepare tax returns for processing.
- Process payments for daily bank deposits.
- Resolve routine problems and issues.
- Receive, screen, review, and verify documents.
- Sort and distribute documents, keep appropriate records, and redirect documents as necessary.
- Establish new files by numbering forms, coding, preparing file folders, and compiling relevant material. Update and correct records and files.
- Create routine reports, (e.g., personal and unit production, or assist in preparation of reports by gathering data, tabulating results, preparing simple charts).
- Operate office machinery, including photocopiers, calculators, computer printers, and scanners.
- Enter and/or retrieve information from computer databases.
- Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Create materials, including, but not limited to letters/memorandums, emails, and spreadsheets using various computer software programs.
- Research and resolve errors and omissions on tax returns.
- Comprehend complex agency and program policies and procedures.
- Perform other related duties as required.
- Comply to agency and program policies and procedures.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred qualifications
- communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
- ability to operate office equipment including computers, scanners, photocopiers, etc.
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