DISTRICT ACCOUNTANT

DEFINITION:

Under general direction, perform specific accounting functions in connection with maintaining the District's financial or statistical records involving manual and machine accounting systems; to perform the most complex District accounting functions; and to do other related work as required.

DUTIES:

Assists the Comptroller in development and implementing the annual budget; assembles, tabulates, calculates, verifies and files accounting data; performs financial record keeping operations related to the District's various accounting activities; assists in the revision, formulation and implementation of accounting record keeping; systems and procedures; arranges, posts, and balances financial data; prepares trial balance and financial statements; establishes and maintains journals, ledgers and other accounting records; prepares and verifies the accuracy of various financial and statistical reports; compares, schedules, and completes fiscal records and reports; prepares account analyses, as required; operates bookkeeping and other office machines; makes complex arithmetical calculations and verifies computations; performs responsible tasks related to the preparation and management of accounting records and reports, such as revenue, attendance, transportation, cafeteria, payroll, purchasing, accounts payable, federal, county and state funded programs, general accounting and assists district auditor with the annual audit.

EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS:

Knowledge of:

• legal provisions governing school district financial transactions
• purpose, methods, systems and practices of school district bookkeeping, financial record keeping, and audits
• operation of computer terminals and office equipment
• data processing techniques and practices

Ability to

• accurately perform difficult accounting functions with minimal supervision
• prepare, review and analyze financial statements and related summaries and reports
• make complex arithmetical calculations with speed and accuracy
• operate bookkeeping and office machines including computer terminals
• understand and carry out oral and written directions
• establish and maintain cooperative working relationships

Experience:

• four years of increasingly responsible experience in fiscal record keeping and reporting involving manual and machine accounting systems, payroll, purchasing, annual reports and cash funds, preferably in a public school district business office environment

Education

• equivalent to the completion of the fourteenth grade, including or supplemented by coursework in business administration, purchasing, accounting or a closely related field

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Range: 16.5 8/95