- FLSA Status: Exempt
- Hours: Full time 40 hours weekly
- Reports to Pastor
- Supervises facility office and bookstore personnel
Qualifications: - Education: Bachelors degree in business administration accounting or finance
- Experience: A minimum of three years prior office management experience is required
- Requires highly developed management and communication skills with a sound understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Job Related Skills: Understanding of accounting software and Microsoft software applications (such as: Microsoft Excel/Word/Outlook/PowerPoint) is required
- Requirements: This position will require some weekend and evening work as well as travel to Diocesan meetings in Lansing MI or other parish locations withing the Catholic Diocese of Lansing
- Physical Demands: While performing duties employee has to sit for long periods of time and use hands in repetitive motion tasks
- The position also requires some standing stooping and bending
- Employee is expected to work in office and be available to staff and parish members
- Must be able to lift 40 lbs
- Interpersonal Skills: The ability to work with others in a collaborative team environment
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and high standards of honest and ethical behavior
- Be an active member of a Catholic faith community
- Language skills: Effectively communicate with business partners/agents parishioners staff and other employees of the Diocese
- Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense to carry out written or oral instructions
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations
- Disciple: Must be an active disciple of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Tradition
Responsibilities - General Summary: The Business Manager assists the Pastor parish staff and the parish Finance Council in the ministry and implementation of the vision of the parish by overseeing the administrative and financial activities of the parish and its ministries
- Prepare annual budgets: church church ministries faith formation and school (in consultation with the pastor and finance council) and reports requested by the pastor and/or finance council
- Manage all banking activities including the accounting and banking of Sunday offertory collections payables receivables and various fundraising activities
- Ensures timely deposits and payments
- With the help of the parish accountant manage and prepare all accounting budgetary fiscal and statistical records with particular attention to the annual reports to the parish and the Diocese of Lansing along with any monthly reports to parish staff and finance council
- Administer all payroll functions and benefit packages
- Develop and implement all parish personnel policies oversee employee training and manage employee relations
- Coordinate all business and administrative activities of the parish school faith formation and other parish entities and endeavors with regards to human resources
- Hire train (as needed) supervise and evaluate all parish maintenance parish janitorial secretarial and bookkeeping personnel
- Develop and recommend to the pastor and other appropriate parish staff persons the necessary policies methods and procedures for carrying out financial accounting internal control and other administrative services
- Works cooperatively and collaboratively with diocesan accounting finance human resources and facility staff
- Serve with the pastor as the liaison to the parish finance council and periodically report on the condition of the parishs physical assets along with the administrative status of the parish
- Ensure the filing of all required federal state and diocesan reports
- Research and monitor service contracts suppliers vendors for fair pricing and competitive bidding
- Oversee the management of parish facilities (scheduling maintenance insurance coverage etc.)
- Oversee all aspects of the care maintenance and replacement of all parish buildings and equipment including the securing of bids negotiating contracts and the purchasing of supplies and equipment
- Make assessments as needed for capital repairs to place them in their relative priority for accomplishment and make pertinent recommendations to the pastor and finance council
- Supervise all arrangements with contracts and outside contractors
- Support and implement the mission of the parish
| Required Experience:
Manager