Description | TITLE: Chief Financial Officer, Exempt
QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business administration. Extensive experience with computerized accounting systems and public school finance operations. At least five years of experience in one of the above fields, including at least three years of experience in supervisory capacity. Such alternatives to the above qualifications that the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist the Superintendent in the preparation of the budget and control of its implementation.
- Supervises the collection, safekeeping, and distribution of all district office level funds.
- Supervises the district’s payroll operations and employee benefits administration.
- Supervises the district’s supporting services of purchasing, accounts payable, and internal auditing of school funds.
- Leads the coordination of all sources of funding and expenditures to support the district's mission.
- Supervises data processing of financial records including implementation of new financial accounting software.
- Supervises the district’s property insurance program.
- Supervises the district’s worker’s compensation insurance program.
- Prepares and submits applications for federal and state funds including Impact Aid, Medicaid, E-rate for telephone service, and State Building Funds.
- Works with bond counsel to prepare document necessary to sell bonds used to provide funds for capital improvements throughout the district.
- Works with Sumter County officials while preparing the yearly budget.
- Provides financial reports and records that may be required by the Superintendent, Board of Trustees, Federal Government, and South Carolina Department of Education.
- Works with federal, state, and independent auditors to assist with periodic reviews of the district’s financial status.
- Delegates those responsibilities to specific individuals within the business division that will expedite the business functions and allow maximum utilization of resources.
- Performs all other duties and responsibilities designated by the Superintendent.
STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Physical Requirements: Requires sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a recurring basis or routine keyboard operations. Requires mobility.
- Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
- Interpersonal Communications: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and/or directions to subordinates and receiving assignments and/or direction from supervisor.
- Language Ability: Requires ability to read a variety of laws, policies and procedures, technical and professional studies, reference books and publications, etc. Requires the ability to prepare performance appraisals, policies, strategic plans, complex reports, schedules, correspondence, etc. with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech. Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control and confidence.
- Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical, schedule or diagrammatic form; to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Requires the ability to apply influence systems in managing a diverse staff; to learn and understand complex principles and techniques; to make independent judgments in absence of supervision; to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow and give verbal and written instructions; to counsel and teach employees; to teach, discipline and counsel students. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational backgrounds and in a variety of technical and/or professional languages including education administration, curriculum development, budgeting, personnel, building maintenance, grant administration, public relations, etc.
- Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to utilize mathematical formulas, to determine percentages and decimals and to determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of algebra and statistics.
- Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape, and visually read various information.
- Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes using office machinery; to operate motor vehicles.
- Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, buttons, switches, catches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
- Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.
- Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress when confronted with emergency situations, volatile situations or tight deadlines. Worker may be subject to danger or risk to a slight degree and to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
- Physical Communications: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear).
TERMS: 233 days. Salary and work year to be recommended by the Superintendent and approved by the Board.
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on evaluation.
The district reserves the rights to modify, supplement, delete, or augment the duties and responsibilities specified in the position description, in the district’s sole and absolute discretion. Duties other than those expressly specified may be assigned from time to time. Additionally, nothing in this job description restricts the Superintendent or designee’s right to assign or re-assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Sumter School District reserves the right to update, revise or change this job description or application deadline at any time for the efficient operation of the district. Sumter School District is an equal opportunity employer.
Sumter School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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