About this role
Job Summary Advanced level technical accounting and bookkeeping work. Provides guidance, direction and training; accounting and bookkeeping services; reviews and audits financial records and reports; gathers, researches and develops financial data and reports for assigned schools. Essential Functions 1. Provides assigned schools' bookkeepers guidance, technical support, direction and training, and responds to inquiries regarding their financial-related responsibilities to include on-site workshops. 2. Provides on-site accounting and bookkeeping services for assigned schools due to extended absences or separations of school bookkeepers of assigned schools. 3. Conducts employee orientation and training for newly hired or promoted bookkeepers for assigned schools. 4. Monitors, reviews and audits financial records and reports of assigned schools to ensure accuracy and compliance with laws, rules, regulations, and procedures related to school financial records and activities. 5. Provides input to principals regarding bookkeepers performance 6. Prepares year-end financial reports and statements related to school fiscal activities and other financial and statistical reports as necessary. 7. Makes recommendations regarding School Board and Internal Accounts, policies, practices, procedures and methods 8. Performs other duties as assigned. Probation: 1 year Qualifications Open Requirements: Five (5) year combination of education and accounting/bookkeeping experience which includes experience in at least one (1) of the following areas: accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, bank telling/cashiering, and bank statement reconciliation/financial analysis for multiple accounts. Successful completion of a vocational/technical school or college-level Bookkeeping course may substitute for six (6) months of the required experience. Full­ charge bookkeeping or prior school bookkeeping experience at both elementary and secondary levels is preferred. Promotional Requirements: All permanent employees of the unit in which the vacancy exists who have served for one (1) year in the class of Bookkeeper Ill; or two (2) years in the class of Bookkeeper II may apply. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)
• Knowledge of the District's financial-related deadlines, reports and reporting requirements
• Knowledge of the District's internal accounts policies, rules, and regulations
• Knowledge of financial-related School Board Policies and Procedures
• Knowledge of the District's automated Internal Accounts software
• Knowledge of Federal, State, and local laws, rules and regulations regarding public funds
• Strong communication (oral & written) and customer service
• Strong organizational & time management skills
• Strong bookkeeping-related balancing problem identification & solving skills
• Strong District automated Internal Accounts software skills
• Ability to apply accounting and bookkeeping knowledge and problem-solving skills to assigned tasks
• Ability to reconcile a bank
• Ability to operate a personal computer and other office equipment
• Ability to create spreadsheets and use word-processing and other software applications
• Ability to make independent judgments in performance of financial responsibilities
• Ability to provide guidance and train others to include the development of job-related on-site workshops
• Ability to work independently with little to no supervision
• Ability to read, understand and apply job -related laws, policies, procedures, rules, regulations, information, and materials
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle