Summary:
Winchester Public Schools, a city school division with approximately 4,400 students and 741 full time employees, is seeking a Finance Specialist to work in the Central Administrative Offices. The successful candidate will assist the Director of Finance by performing accounting tasks in order to support the Winchester Public Schools finance related functions.
Qualifications:
Combination of training and experience in area of grant management functions. Experience using OMEGA and automated accounting system preferred.
Responsibilities:
- Documents payments and expenditures for all grants within the office (Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV, School Improvement, Extended Learning and all others) and prepares bi-monthly budget reports.
- Maintains and tracks grant budgets (aligned with OMEGA) for the department; monitors expenditures and performs analyses on accounts.
- Responsible for reconciling billing discrepancies, balancing accounts and closing out account.
- Prepares reimbursement request to submit to the Grant Director to review and approve.
- Responsible for preparing grant amendments to the Grant Director for review.
- Inventories all division resources purchased using State and Federal Funding to ensure proper receipt and distribution.
- Trains school based staff on preparing and maintaining required state and federal programs documents necessary for auditing purposes.
- Provides all office financial management including but not limited to: preparing purchase orders, requisitions, vouchers, budget forms, travel forms and other financial data.
- Performs general clerical tasks including: preparing correspondence to be sent to school personnel, filing, ordering supplies, creating agendas, monthly timesheets, effort logs, copying, making travel arrangements and preparation of other documents for distributions.
- Prepares reports and document for auditors as required.
- Other duties as assigned.
Salary:
Range for salary is $16.49 to $35.36 per hour
Workday:
Full time/12 months/260 days
Location:
Central Administrative Office
Start Date:
Upon hire