Business Manager - Eaglecrest High School

Cherry Creek Schools•Centennial, CO

About The Position

The Business Manager administers the bookkeeping office at Eaglecrest High School and performs bookkeeping functions including posting, general ledger maintenance, reconciliation, journal entries, accounts receivable and payable, trial-balance reporting, and management reporting. The role maintains registers for student fines, fees, and yearbook purchases, and fosters positive community relations among school and community stakeholders. It works with adult professionals and student activities.

Requirements

Vocational, technical, or business school education.
Ability to balance figures.
Basic accounting knowledge, including posting and account reconciliation.
Basic arithmetic skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Ability to develop computerized spreadsheets.
Ability to operate software packages such as accounting, purchasing, and educational software.

Nice To Haves

1 to 2 years of experience in accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or bookkeeping.

Responsibilities

Advise and train building employees on paperwork procedures for purchases with building funds, and work with district departments and staff to address order, shipment, and payment problems.
Assist with the development and preparation of decentralized budgets; meet with administrators, department coordinators, coaches, and club sponsors about budget procedures; prepare special reports and statistical analyses as needed.
Maintain ledgers and daily journals in automated records of financial transactions across all budgets.
Maintain the budget database and prepare drafts of the annual building budget and activity, athletic, and decentralized budget requests for school administrators and the district accountant.
Reconcile and balance accounts, and prepare and distribute monthly statements and reports to administration as needed.
Enter building warehouse orders and purchase orders.
Compile, prepare, type, and mail the parent newsletter.
Direct and review the activities bookkeeper’s work and perform that role’s duties in their absence.
Design, revise, and implement building, activity, and student check-in accounting and budgeting systems, including manual and automated procedures.
Coordinate student check-in and check-out throughout the year; collect fines and fees and maintain records as needed.
Provide problem-solving assistance to less experienced employees.
Schedule and assign work, provide work direction, review similar work, and train employees.
Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.