ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN

JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL

Southwest

Traditional 220 work days

FTE: 1.0

Salary Range: $16.43 - $16.98

Essential Functions and Objectives:

Perform any combination of routine calculating, analysis, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records, according to accounting procedures, and related policies and procedures.

- Debit, credit, and total accounts on computer spreadsheets and databases, using specialized accounting software.

- Check the accuracy of figures, calculations, orders, and postings recorded by other workers.

- Resolve Denver Public Schools (DPS) vendor issues (e.g., billing errors, non-receipt of invoices by contacting vendors, researching information; and communicating results.

- Process vendor payments by entering data (e.g., invoices) into computer software systems; calculating and verifying amounts and preparing vendors checks.

- Verify and reconcile invoice data against invoice description amounts.

- Prepare and ensure accuracy of reports (e.g., summary, reconciliation, annual vendor usage) and spreadsheets

- May maintain and update substitute paraprofessional SEA time and attendance

- Compiles, organize, track and update data for one or more different accounts, and complete various reports.

- Update, organize and file accurate records (e.g., invoices, payments)

- Calculate, prepare, and issue bills, invoices, account statements, and other financial statements according to established procedures

- E nsure compliance with state, federal and DPS organizational policies.

- May maintain and update substitute paraprofessional SEA time and attendance.

- May order supplies for departments.

- Perform other duties as requested

Knowledge, Experience & Other Qualifications:

- A bility to work in a team-oriented environment.

- A bility to work effectively with staff, all levels of supervision and the public.

- Ability to receive, coordinate and assign various job related tasks simultaneously

- A bility to communicate clearly in both written and oral formats.
- Ability to demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills.

E ducation Requirements:

- High school diploma or equivalent is required. Associates degree or higher is preferred.

- Two (2) to three (3) years of related experience in accounting, finance or bookkeeping

- Intermediate level experience with variety of computer applications, including spreadsheets, word processing and databases, and automated on-line accounting system

A bout Denver Public Schools:

Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.

Under the leadership of Superintendent Susana Cordova and guided by the tenets of The Denver Plan, DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org.

Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.