Finance employees receive, account for, monitor, and design internal controls to safeguard sacred funds (donated confidentially in obedience to God's commandments) for the Church's religious mission under the direction of senior ecclesiastical leaders.

Incumbents in this position perform a variety of routine accounting/banking clerical support functions such as verifying, posting, adding, computing, comparing, and summarizing standard accounting, bookkeeping, and/or banking entries to help maintain and ensure accuracy of financial data. (After two years of satisfactory performance in this position, an incumbent may be considered for promotion to the journey-level accounting clerk position, Clerk, Accounting 2. The nature and complexity of the regular job duties are the major determining factors.)