Accountant/Business Manager

Salary Range: $71,305.18 - $89,131.48

This professional position is responsible for assisting the Director of Accounting and Financial Services in financial analysis and activity of the College including all campus locations, district office, and the direct service organizations.

The position requires knowledge in GAAP, GASB standards, modified accrual-based accounting, financial statement preparation, uniform guidance on grants, payroll, accounts payable, and fixed asset accounting methods.

• Reviews and participates in complex financial accounting activities, which may include: calculating, researching , and analyzing financial data and transactions; tracking and analyzing expenditures; reconciliations; projecting revenues and expenses; reviewing and approving financial invoices and contracts; researching account discrepancies; assessing, maintaining, testing, and interpreting financial and accounting systems; and/or performing related activities.
• Implements and maintains a system of internal controls and security over all financial transactions and assets; following standard accounting practices and procedures, federal, state, and local laws, rules, regulations, and entity specific policies and procedures.
• Ensures compliance with financial guidelines; oversees manual work processes, ensuring efficiency and providing direction and feedback.
• Requires the ability to use many different computer applications and systems and knowledge on their set-up;
• Prepares supplemental schedules and reports and the annual financial statements, management discussion and analysis, and footnotes.
• Prepares, submits, reviews, and analyzes a variety of reports and reconciliations to/from internal departments, financial institutions, and external agencies.
• Manages state and federal tax and compliance reporting for State sales tax, Unrelated Business Income (UBI), and IRS Form 990-T.
• Prepares year end workpapers, data, and analysis for the annual financial statement audit.
• Prepares budgets; reviews and modifies budget as necessary; tracks revenues and expenditures; and prepares and provides financial information as requested in accordance with federal, state, or local funding regulations and guidelines. Serves as generalist to support grants accounting, accounts payable, and general accounting responsibilities as needed.
• Writes procedures and work instructions including mentoring and training staff through new processes and requirements accordingly.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Bachelors degree in accounting, business, or one related to assigned area; five (5) years of related work experience in accounting or auditing preferably within a development, foundation, or fundraising organization; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or business-related field from an accredited institution supplemented by at least six (6) years of related work experience in accounting or auditing, preferably within higher education or nonprofit organization.

At least six (6) years of college/university/governmental auditing/accounting experience.

Professional Certification(s) and or related graduate degree.

Governmental Accounting Standards (GASB), OMB Code of Federal Regulations for Grants and Agreements, Federal State, and Local laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines for higher education.

Certified Public Accountant desired or, Certified Management Accountant desired or, Chartered Global Management Accountant desired

• Specialized functional expert with comprehensive accounting knowledge.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with experience working with spreadsheets .
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and/or instruction.
• Financial analysis techniques.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); GASB. and a pplicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines
• Experience with ERP Financial Management Systems or other Accounting Software applications .
• Account preparation, reconciliation, review, and control methods.
• Preparing comprehensive financial reports.
• Gathering, analyzing, and evaluating financial data.
• Research techniques and correcting discrepancies.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team

Knowledge of on-line communication platforms (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc.)

Business/Accounting Specialist desired.

Certified Payroll Professional desired if so assigned.

This work typically requires the following physical activities to be performed.

A complete description of the activities below is available upon request from Human Resources.

(X = Required to perform essential job functions)

Balancing maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.

Pushing use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.

Climbing ascending, descending ladders, stairs, ramps, requires body agility.

Reaching extending hands or arms in any direction.

Crawling moving about on hands, knees, or hands, feet.

Repetitive Motion substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.

Crouching bending body forward by bending leg, spine.

Speaking expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.

Feeling perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.

Standing for sustained periods of time.

Fingering picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.

Stooping bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.

Grasping applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.

Talking 1 expressing ideas by spoken word.

Handling picking, holding, or working with whole hand.

Talking 2 shouting to be heard above ambient noise.

Hearing 1 perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.

Visual Acuity 1 prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.

Hearing 2 receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.

Visual Acuity 2 color, depth perception, field of vision.

Kneeling bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.

Visual Acuity 3 determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.

Lifting raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.

Visual Acuity 4 operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.

ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.

Visual Acuity 5 close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.

Pulling use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.

Walking on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

Work performed is primarily:

Sedentarywork : Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Light work : Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.

Medium work : Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Heavy work : Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Very heavy work : Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects

May be required to work hours other than the regular schedule including nights and weekends.

This position requires regular and reliable attendance and the employee's physical presence at the workplace.

May be subjected to fumes, odors, dusts, gases, extreme temperatures, work space restrictions, and intense noise.

Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity to change and responsiveness to changing goals, priorities, and needs.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in a job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in a job description.

St.

Petersburg College has the right to revise a classification or job description at any time.

St.

Petersburg College has the right to revise a classification or job description at any time.

The Board of Trustees of St.

Petersburg College affirms its equal opportunity policy in accordance with the provisions of the Florida Educational Equity Act and all other relevant state and federal laws, rules and regulations.

The college will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or against any qualified individual with disabilities in its employment practices or in the admission and treatment of students.

Recognizing that sexual harassment constitutes discrimination on the basis of sex and violates this Rule, the college shall not tolerate such conduct.

Should you experience such behavior, please contact JoCynda Hudson , the director of EA/EO/Title IX Coordinator at 727-341-3261; by mail at P.O.

Box 13489, St.

Petersburg, FL 33733-3489; or by email at [email protected].

Please indicated the position you wish to apply for in your request.

The College shall not discriminate against a qualified individual with disabilities because of the disability of such an individual in regard to job application procedures, hiring, advancement, or discharge of employees, employees compensation, job training or other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

Except when undue hardship exists, the College shall endeavor to provide reasonable accommodations to a qualified individual with a disability.

If you have questions regarding this policy please contact the Director of EA/EO by phone at (727)341-3261, by mail at PO Box 13489, St Petersburg Fl 33733-3489, or by email at eeo_director @spcollege.edu.

listed in a position description are used as a guideline to hiring.

Other comparable qualifications of a candidate may be considered by the President in lieu of those suggested in a position description. (BOT rule 6hx23-2.02).

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions described herein. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in a job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in a job description .

The Board of Trustees of St. Petersburg College affirms its equal opportunity policy in accordance with the provisions of the Florida Educational Equity Act and all other relevant state and federal laws, rules and regulations. The college will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or against any qualified individual with disabilities in its employment practices or in the admission and treatment of students. Recognizing that sexual harassment constitutes discrimination on the basis of sex and violates this Rule, the college will not tolerate such conduct. Should you experience such behavior, please contact the Title IX Coordinator at 727-341-3261 ; by mail at P.O. Box 13489, St. Petersburg, FL 33733-3489; or by email at [email protected] .

St.

Petersburg College has the right to revise a classification or job description at any time