Financial Accountant III - Office of Sr Business Officer 2024-2025
Financial Accountant III - Office of Sr Business Officer 2024-2025
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Job Description
Ref.7699
Position must be posted for a minimum of 10 days.
TITLE:
Financial Accountant III
REPORTS TO:
Assigned Supervisor
DEPARTMENT:
BusinessServices
CLASSIFICATION:
Classified Management
FLSA:
Exempt
WORK YEAR/HOURS
261 days/7.5 hours
ISSUED:
Created: June 2013
SALARY GRADE:
ADCL 15
BASIC FUNCTION: Independently perform a wide variety of complex districtwide analyses and complex professional and technical accounting duties as assigned.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:
The Accountant II position is distinguished from the Accountant III in that the latter requires more experience performs more difficult and complex budgetary and accounting duties and works independently and is required to demonstrate computerrelated and accounting skills at a higher proficiency (see Licenses and Other Requirements. An Accountant II performs professional budgetary and accounting duties and works under direction.
REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES: (Incumbents may perform any combination of the essential functions shown below. This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties knowledge or abilities associated with this classification but is intended to accurately reflect the principal job elements).
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Prepare financial reports and evaluations.
- Prepare and submit districtwide fiscal reports schedules statements forecasts and claims as required by State Federal County and District guidelines including those for specially funded educational programs.
- Provide reporting to the State on attendance accounting.
- Maintain general and/ or subsidiary ledgers and accounts.
- Maintain appropriate financial documentation in order to efficiently draft reports.
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts as well as health and welfare benefits.
- Prepare monthly Cash flow for Controllers review.
- Manage accounts receivable funding.
- Analyze cash balances and fund requirements prepare detailed cash forecasts.
- Advise and assist the Controller in the financial administration of projects or accounts.
- Provide information regarding the interpretation of laws rules and regulations.
- Conduct regular internal audits to ensure that expenditures comply with contracts; identify and resolve discrepancies.
- Prepare documentations and audit schedules for State Controllers Office Federal Compliance auditors as well as other local state and federal external auditors.
- Assist in establishing and implementing financial policy revisions as necessary.
- Coordinate with Financial Services Associates Payroll Assistants Accounts Payable Clerks and Human Resources Generalists and Special Program administrators.
- Assist with preparation of fiscal reports including creation and analysis of financial schedules notes to financials and tables for Management Discuss & Analysis section of unaudited actual reports.
- Perform independent analysis of highly complex accounting functions including income and expenditure projections of various funds.
- Assist Accounting Manager and Controller with reviewing revising and maintaining various service contracts including Mandated Cost Erates and MediCal Billing.
- Analyze revenues and expenditures for accounting implications.
- Prepare and maintain various statistical fiscal and financial data.
- Assist with the creation and publication of annual financial statements and reports.
- Assist Accounting Manager and Controller with yearend closing process.
- Prepare an accounting operating manual providing technical accounting advice.
- Review revenues and expenditures for all grants and entitlements to ensure reports are prepared in accordance with grantor requirements. This includes review of budget contracting terms grant reporting and closeouts as well as serving as a district wide contact point for all federal state and local grants.
- Aggregate sitelevel data on attendance accounting instructional minutes class size reduction student body accounting bank accounts and audit prior to reporting.
- Provide crosstraining to other staff members within the department.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
TRAINING EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Any combination of education training and/or experience equivalent to: a Bachelors degree with a major in accounting and five years fulltime progressively responsible experience in accounting.
Masters in Business Administration or Masters of Public Policy preferred
Supplemental coursework in use of computerbased accounting applications desirable
California school district accounting preferred
Customer service experience preferred
LICENSES AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
Certified Public Accountant preferred
Valid California Drivers license
Employment eligibility will include fingerprints Tuberculosis and/or other employment clearance
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
KNOWLEDGE OF:
- Generally accepted accounting principles and auditing standards
- Laws policies and procedures governing California public school finance
- Public school accounting procedures and protocols
- Encumbrance based budgeting
- Use and leverage computerbased accounting applications
ABILITY TO:
- Work with paperless financial services systems
- Exercise sound judgment and initiative in an environment of rapid change
- Consistently meet and/ or exceed client expectations
- Build highlyfunctioning relationships with managers both inside and outside of the Financial Services Division
- Perform advanced quantitative analysis
WORKING CONDITIONS:
ENVIRONMENT:
Indoor office environment; fastpaced work constant interruptions
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Hearing and speaking to exchange information in person and on the telephone; seeing to read prepare and proofread documents perform assigned duties; sitting or standing for extended periods of time; dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and other office equipment; kneeling bending at the waist and reaching overhead above the shoulders and horizontally to retrieve and store files and supplies; lifting light objects.
NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY:
The Oakland Unified School District does not discriminate in any program activity or in employment on the basis of actual or perceived race religion color national origin ancestry age marital status pregnancy physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information veteran status gender sex or sexual orientation.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
