Job Description

ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST


QUALIFICATIONS:


1. Bachelor's degree with majors in Accounting, Business or Finance preferred.


2. Work experience in government accounting is preferred.


3. Advanced knowledge in the use of business software


required.


4. Professional oral and written communication skills


required.


5. Such alternatives to the qualifications listed above or below as the Board of Education may find appropriate and


acceptable.


REPORTS TO: Chief School Financial Officer


JOB GOAL: To perform business tasks for the Finance and Human


Resources Departments.


PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:


1. Assists in the maintaining and reconciling of a variety of ledgers, reports, and


account records: examining and correcting accounting transactions to ensure


accuracy: preparing and posting journal entries.


2. Assists in the receipting of funds, posting receipts to subsidiary ledgers, and


preparing bank deposits.


3. Prepare monthly central office bank reconciliations.


4. Review purchase requisitions for proper authorizations and maintaining of


purchasing files.


5. Receive and review purchase requisitions and process purchase orders; matching


invoices with purchase orders and receiving documentation; reviewing general


ledger account numbers and submitting for payment.


6. Processing of vendor payments; entering required data into the computer.


7. Perform vendor statement reconciliations; responding to inquires from vendors


regarding payments.


8. Prepare credit card reconciliation sheets for local school bookkeepers.


9. Prepare monthly central office credit card reconciliations.


10. Prepare monthly Board reports and quarterly reports.


11. Assists in the monitoring and balancing of various accounts verifying availability


of funds and classification of expenditures; researches and analyzes transactions


to resolve problems.


12. Assists in the maintaining of the district's fixed asset records.


13. Performs any other duties as directed by the Chief School Financial Officer.


TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:


Twelve Month

Salary as recommended by the Superintendent

and approved by the Leeds City Schools Board of


Education.