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Syracuse City School District · 1 day ago

Accountant I

Syracuse, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$67K/yr - $67K/yr

4+ years exp

Syracuse City School District is undergoing a transformation to enhance student achievement and is seeking dedicated professionals to join their team. The Accountant I role involves maintaining accounting records, preparing reports, and assisting in establishing new accounting systems under general supervision.

Charter SchoolsEducation

Responsibilities

Maintains a varied and complex set of accounting records, posts entries to these books from supporting records, makes adjustment entries; prepares financial statements from accounting records

Verifies unencumbered balances on the books

Assists a higher level accountant or independently establishes new accounting systems and procedures

May supervise a number of clerical personnel in the account clerical and general clerical series engaged in maintaining fiscal records

Analyzes cost data of a department or institution according to labor, material and overhead costs to compute unit costs; records data for use by management; controls expenditures

Assists in preparing a department budget

Performs internal audits on accounts, payrolls, invoices and expenditures to prove mathematical correctness

Participates in public health preparedness activities as trained and assigned

Qualification

Accounting principlesFinancial reportingBudgetingMathematical calculationsSupervisionOffice methodsAttention to detail

Required

High School Graduate

Two (2) years of permanent competitive class status in the title of Account Clerk III

Graduation from a regionally accredited college or university or one accredited by the New York State Board of Regents to grant degrees with a baccalaureate degree in accounting or a baccalaureate degree including or supplemented by 24 semester credit hours, or its equivalent, in accounting

Four (4) years of accounting, financial auditing, or full charge bookkeeping experience, or its part time equivalent, which is defined as experience which must have involved the accumulation of financial and statistical data into general and subsidiary ledgers and journals and the compilation of this material into financial reports

An equivalent combination of education and experience as defined by the limits of (A) and (B)

Ability to prepare complete and accurate accounting reports and statements of some complexity

Ability to perform detailed work including written or numeric data and to make arithmetic calculations rapidly and accurately

Ability to supervise a number of account clerical and general clerical workers

Ability to follow complex oral and written instructions

Successful completion of a fingerprint-based background check