Details
Posted: 10-Jun-22
Location: NOVATO, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: $76,668 - $87,900
Categories:
Other – Accounting
Other – Financial Services
Salary Details:
8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 260 paid days per year
Paid Time Off
Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
Pension Plan
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, APPLY ON EDJOIN.ORG BY 7/10/22. LINK BELOW.
Budget Analyst at Novato Unified School District | EDJOIN
BASIC FUNCTION:
Under the direction of the Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, assists in the planning, organization, and development of the District’s annual budget. Performs a variety of specialized accounting duties to assist in the preparation, analysis, and maintenance of departmental and site budgets. Perform and maintain finance activities including forecasting, planning, budget development and financial State and federal reporting.
REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Prepare or participate in the preparation of budgets by compiling data for financial, cost, and budget analysis and forecasting.
Prepare SACS reporting for all District financial reporting periods
Maintain SACS account code structure for District
Assists with the preparation of the annual budget requests and maintains continuous budget accounts as required.
Develops annual budget development spreadsheets
Reports on anticipated or possible deficits, surpluses and general condition of the District.
Prepares all required associated reports and forms for submission to appropriate agencies; maintains a complete set of financial records for district categorical resources.
Set up and supervise financial record keeping systems; compile and prepare periodic financial statements, supporting schedules, and reports.
Maintain and review fixed asset and other special funds and periodically reconciles such funds to accounting records.
Develops and manages the internal auditing of school and department budgets
Assyre that expenditures are spent in accordance with program compliance and guidance
Analyze budget documentation to assure that expenditures are properly charged and do not exceed appropriations.
Provide daily monitoring and maintenance of the business components of position control
Computes and requests transfers between funds and other accounts
Monitors cash balance of district funds including preparation of cash flow projections and reports.
Maintains capital inventory.
Work directly with staff from other departments to resolve technical accounting issues and problems.
Assist with audits, year-end closing activities and fiscal reporting
OTHER DUTIES:
Perform related duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
KNOWLEDGE OF:
- Principles and practices of accounting and bookkeeping including general ledger, fund accounting, program accounting, subsidiary ledger management, and data processing.
- Budgeting principals and terminology.
- Cost-accounting methods and procedures.
- Budget preparation and maintenance as it relates to school operations.
- State and local regulations applying to school district operations.
- Principles of the California Education Code and Administrative Code.
- Record retrieval and storage systems.
- SACS coding.
- Construction accounting.
- Policies and objectives of assigned programs and activities.
- Methods, procedures and terminology used in technical accounting work.
- Financial and statistical record-keeping techniques.
- Preparation, review and control of assigned accounts.
- Preparation of financial statements and comprehensive accounting reports.
- Data control procedures and data entry operations.
- Modern office practices, procedures and equipment.
- Operation of a computer and assigned software.
- Interpersonal skills including tact, patience and courtesy.
- Oral and written communication skills.
- Arithmetic computations.
ABILITY TO:
- Apply principles of school district budgeting, auditing, and accounting.
- Provide financial analysis and statistical data.
- Evaluate recordkeeping systems to develop and implement new systems as required.
- Offer support and training to both staff and school district personnel.
- Perform a variety of advanced, complex, specialized and technical accounting duties in the review, analysis, maintenance and adjustment of funds and accounts.
- Prepare and analyze comprehensive accounting statements and reports.
- Prepare and audit a variety of financial and statistical reports, statements and records.
- Reconcile various fiscal statements to ensure accurate fund accounting as assigned.
- Review, process, evaluate, and verify a variety of financial information.
- Identify, investigate and resolve financial errors and discrepancies.
- Learn, interpret, apply and explain rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
- Prepare and reconcile statements, ledgers, balance sheets, and other financial documents.
- Prepare and evaluate comprehensive accounting reports and statements.
- Prepare and maintain accurate financial and statistical records and reports.
- Process and record accounting transactions accurately.
- Verify, balance, and adjust assigned accounts.
- Compare numbers and detect errors efficiently.
- Reconcile, balance, and audit assigned accounts.
- Assemble, organize, and prepare data for records and reports.
- Complete work with many interruptions.
- Answer telephones and greet the public courteously.
- Type or input data at an acceptable rate of speed.
- Make arithmetic calculations quickly and accurately.
- Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
- Establish and maintain effective working and cooperative relationships with others.
- Prepare and maintain a variety of records and reports.
- Operate standard office equipment including a computer and assigned software.
- Maintain records and files.
- Meet established schedules and time lines.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Graduation from a four-year college or university with a major in accounting or closely related field and one year of recent experience as a professional full-time accountant or some combination of education, training, and experience.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
- Department of Justice fingerprint clearance.
- TB clearance.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
ENVIRONMENT:
- Office environment.
- Constant interruptions.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and other office equipment.
- Seeing to read, prepare and ensure the accuracy of a variety of materials.
- Hearing and speaking to exchange information in person or on the telephone.
- Sitting or standing for extended periods of time.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling and stooping to reach materials.
- Reaching overhead and horizontally to retrieve and store files and supplies.
Novato Unified School District prohibits, at any district school or school activity, discrimination, harassment, including sexual harassment, intimidation, and bullying, based on actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. This shall apply when applicable, to interns, volunteers, and job applicants.
For questions, concerns or complaints, please contact the District Equity and Title IX Compliance Officer: Assistant Superintendent – HR; 1015 Seventh Street, Novato, CA 94945; (415) 493-4207; hradmin@nusd.org.
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, APPLY ON EDJOIN.ORG BY 7/10/22. LINK BELOW.
Budget Analyst at Novato Unified School District | EDJOIN
