Business Manager - Eaglecrest High School

Cherry Creek

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 develops and promotes good community relations among school and community stakeholders. The position works with adult professionals and student activities. The Business Manager advises and trains building employees on purchasing paperwork, assists with budget development and preparation, maintains automated financial records, and prepares or distributes budget drafts, statements, and reports. The role also handles building orders and purchase orders, supports student check-in and check-out and related records, and provides direction, work assignments, review, and training for other employees, including coverage for the activities bookkeeper when needed.

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 proper paperwork procedures for purchases with building funds; coordinate with district departments and staff to resolve order, shipment, and payment problems.
Assist in developing and preparing 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 for financial transactions across all budgets.
Maintain the database and issue drafts of the annual building budget and activity, athletic, and decentralized budgets to designated school and district personnel.
Reconcile and balance account books and, when needed, prepare and distribute monthly statements and reports to administration.
Input building warehouse orders and purchase orders.
Compile, set up, type, and mail the parent newsletter.
Provide direction and review for the activities bookkeeper and perform that employee’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.