Chief Financial Officer
Company: Allentown School District
Location: Allentown
Posted on: May 8, 2024
Job Description:
- Position Type:
Executive Administration/ Chief
- Date Posted:
3/18/2024
- Location:
Administration Center - Allentown, PA
- --- Bachelor's Degree in business administration/management,
accounting or related field.
- --- Master's in Business Administration or CPA certification
preferred.
- --- Minimum five years' experience as a business manager or
related role.
- --- Knowledge of current laws and regulations relating to
public school accounting. --- Evidence of school and/or business
leadership experience.
- --- Excellent communication skills.
- --- Executive Core Qualifications, including the ability to
lead change and lead people, the ability to meet to meet District
goals with a focus on results, the possession of business acumen,
and the ability to build coalitions. Must be able to lead and
manage, and to ensure that targeted goals and initiatives are
achieved. --- Demonstrated skills in computer technology and
financial / HR computer software applications.
- --- Satisfactory work record & criminal/child abuse clearances
(Acts 34, 114 and 151). --- To perform this job successfully, an
individual must be able to perform each essential duty
satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of
the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform the essential functions.
- --- Such additional or alternatives to the above qualifications
as the Board and/or Superintendent may determine appropriate and
acceptable. Summary Supervises system-wide business affairs, fiscal
management, tax collection, procurement, budgetary development,
operations, transportation, child nutrition, federal programs,
technology, employee benefits, and related support functions while
maintaining accurate and complete records of the District's
financial affairs; The Chief Financial Officer works to ensure
fiscal accountability and to maximize the use of human and
financial resources through reallocation of overall resources;
Collaborates with Human Resources to complement their functions for
employees of the district. Chief Financial Officer -
Salary Level: $185,000-$200,000 -
Qualifications: -
- --- Bachelor's Degree in business administration/management,
accounting or related field.
- --- Master's in Business Administration or CPA certification
preferred.
- --- Minimum five years' experience as a business manager or
related role.
- --- Knowledge of current laws and regulations relating to
public school accounting. --- Evidence of school and/or business
leadership experience.
- --- Excellent communication skills.
- --- Executive Core Qualifications, including the ability to
lead change and lead people, the ability to meet to meet District
goals with a focus on results, the possession of business acumen,
and the ability to build coalitions. Must be able to lead and
manage, and to ensure that targeted goals and initiatives are
achieved. --- Demonstrated skills in computer technology and
financial / HR computer software applications.
- --- Satisfactory work record & criminal/child abuse clearances
(Acts 34, 114 and 151). --- To perform this job successfully, an
individual must be able to perform each essential duty
satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of
the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform the essential functions.
- --- Such additional or alternatives to the above qualifications
as the Board and/or Superintendent may determine appropriate and
acceptable. - Summary Supervises system-wide business affairs,
fiscal management, tax collection, procurement, budgetary
development, operations, transportation, child nutrition, federal
programs, technology, employee benefits, and related support
functions while maintaining accurate and complete records of the
District's financial affairs; The Chief Financial Officer works to
ensure fiscal accountability and to maximize the use of human and
financial resources through reallocation of overall resources;
Collaborates with Human Resources to complement their functions for
employees of the district.
- Essential Duties and Responsibilities -
- Supervises the accounting system necessary to provide school
officials and administrators with accurate financial facts as the
basis for formulating policies and decisions; provides the proper
safeguards for custody of public funds.
- Performs pre-audit of internal procedures; determines that
prepared statements present fairly the financial position,
propriety, legality, and accuracy of financial transactions; proper
recording of all financial transactions; post-audit procedures;
external audits; reconciliation of internal and external audits;
conducts internal reviews of student activities and petty cash
funds in the District schools; monitors food service accounts.
- Develops procedures and policy on cash management and
investments; develops cash projection report of revenues and
expenditures of the general fund; selects the type and source of
investments; secures proper collateralization of investments;
maintains records and prepares monthly report of cash and
investments; provides for full investment of all surplus
funds.
- Holds responsibility for debt service and capital fund
management. Performs long and shortterm financing, including Tax
Anticipation Notes (TANS); maturities and debt payments; long range
capital improvement programs; short-term debt management; debt
service payment procedures and reports; investment of surplus
capital funds; refunding of bond issues.
- Implements the School District's financial accounting system in
accordance with "The Manual of Accounting and Related Financial
Procedures for Pennsylvania School District, 1983"; translates the
school budget into a business office accounting system; prepares
the annual financial report of the
- District and other financial reports as required for submission
to the State; prepares monthly financial reports to the Board of
School Directors; interprets the annual audit report; supervises
accounting procedures on payroll operation, accounts payable, trust
and agency accounts, local, state and federal taxes, retirement,
social security, insurance programs, capital reserve funds, student
activity funds, and construction funds.
- Holds responsibility for financial planning and budgeting.
Compiles and prepares the annual education budget; long-term fiscal
planning; operating budget control; expenditure and revenue
estimates; fiscal relationships with other governmental units;
prepares monthly financial reports for the Board of School
Directors.
- Administers Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) Plans for all
employees.
- Holds responsibility for insurance and risk management.
Performs review of insurance programs in collaboration with human
resources; determines coverage to be provided; obtains insurable
values on building and contents; files insurance claims and
reports; directs insurance procurement procedures; maintains
insurance policies and claim records; develops specifications and
places insurance with companies, agents, and brokers.
- Supervises payroll operations for payment of all employees in
accordance with negotiated contracts and Board policies; supervises
completion of local, state, and federal reports on payroll
deductions; has responsibility for establishing payroll policies
and procedures; supervises proper accounting of all payroll
disbursements; supervises and audits all payroll records.
- Acts as designated purchasing agent for the School District;
processes purchase orders; recommends and enforces purchasing
policies, procedures, and regulations; prepares specifications and
determines quality of equipment and supplies; enforces school code
requirements for bidding and purchasing; responsible for storage
and delivery of supplies; Chief Financial Officer Position
Description 3 maintains inventory control; serves as the School
District's expert on the source and cost of supplies, equipment,
and services; maintains records and catalogues on items to be
purchased.
- Holds responsibility for Real Estate and Fixed Asset
Management. Maintains inventory records and determines values of
fixed assets; secures adequate insurance and provides for security
of fixed assets; responsible for management of real and personal
property records. --- Reviews the tax collections of, and when
necessary, provides input to the locally elected and appointed tax
collectors for the District.
- Provides financial data for state and federal financial grants;
provides assistance in securing financial grants; monitors District
use of grant monies.
- Works collaboratively with the Chief of Schools, Chief Academic
Officer and Director of Facilities to establish accountability for
energy consumption and to establish a District energy management
program for the reduction of utility consumption. --- Supervises
the Executive Director of Financial Planning, Employee Benefits
program and department staff and responsibitlies.
- Supervises the Executive Director of Facilities and all
department responsibitlies.
- Supervises the Director of Child Nutrition and Food Services
and department responsibilities.
- Supervises the Director of Technology and all department
responsibitlies.
- Supervises the Director of Safety and Security and all
department responsibitlies.
- Supervises the Supervisor of Transportation and all department
responsibitlies.
- Supervises the Director of Federal Programs and all department
responsibitlies.
- Serves as the District's Record Retention Officer for
non-educational records and the District's delegate to the Lehigh
County Tax Collection Committee.
- Attends Board meetings and work sessions. Attends meetings and
conferences as required by the position. Attends professional
seminars and workshops.
- Serves as a member of the District's Emergency Management Plan
Team.
- Ensures proper adherence to District policy and procedures, and
ensures proper adherence to applicable contract language that is in
effect for the District.
- Provides increased fiscal oversight for Title I, Title II,
ACCESS, and IDEA Federal funds.
- Performs any other duties assigned by the Superintendent.
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