1251 Financial Specialist II
1251 Financial Specialist II
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$ 55000 - 65000
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Job Description
Posting # 1251
Posting date: July 23 2025
Posting close: August 3 2025
Location: Sioux City
Begin: Immediately
Overview
Northwest AEA provides visionary leadership and quality student-centered services through relationships with families schools and short our focus can be summed up in these four words: Inspiring Learning. Changing Lives.
Our vision is to be the first contact for timely and ongoing support to improve the performance outcomes and well-being of all learners.
About the Agency
Northwest AEA provides special education and school improvement services to 34 public school districts and 32 accredited non-public schools. The agency serves 45000 students and more than 5000 educators in a 10-county area of Northwest Iowa (Lyon Osceola Sioux OBrien Plymouth Cherokee Woodbury Ida Monona and Crawford).
Our headquarters is located at 5800 Discovery Blvd. Sioux City with regional offices in Cherokee Denison Le Mars Onawa and Sioux Center.
Why Northwest AEA
Our vision mission and anchors guide our actions. Staff at Northwest AEA believe that what they do inspires learning and leads to changed lives for the students staff and families we serve. Our work is anchored in building positive professional relationships with stakeholders and with one another. We embrace responsiveness in how we serve so that students staff and families can see improved results.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Qualifications:
- High school graduate with accounting and/or business office emphasis.
- Data entry and general bookkeeping experience.
Job Purpose: To achieve productivity and accuracy in a multi-task clerical position with emphasis on payroll accounts payable and accounts receivable.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Perform duties related to semi-monthly payroll processing.
- Maintain privacy and confidentiality of AEA employees payroll information.
- Maintain and approve leave records for all staff.
- Final processing of payroll printing reports deposit notices checks and electronic files for direct deposit.
- Review and execute EFT and wire transfers related to payroll processing
- Manage all aspects of accounts receivable.
- Retrieve and compile information to assist the various auditors.
- Build and maintain a detailed knowledge of benefits leaves
- Maintain reports as required by law including electronic federal/state tax deposits
- Complete all aspects of employee on-boarding and off-boarding and provide necessary documentation.
- Monitor employee open enrollment update data with the vendors and update the data in the financial software.
- Provide assistance to current and new staff concerning health insurance and other employee benefits.
- Reconcile and process payments for medical dental life and long-term disability premiums.
- Work with medical dental and life insurance providers to resolve issues and discrepancies.
- Maintain data in payroll and human resource systems.
- Assist in work related to fiscal year-end close.
- Monitor bank cash flow activity.
- Assist the business manager as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
It is the policy of Northwest Area Education Agency not to discriminate on the basis of race color national origin sex disability religion creed age marital status sexual orientation and socioeconomic status in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy please contact Jerome Schaefer Equity Coordinator 5800 Discovery Blvd. Sioux City Iowa 51111 .
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
