Who You Are

Impact Public Schools (IPS) is looking for an experienced individual with finance knowledge and strong communication skills. If you have a fierce commitment to equity and are passionate about supporting our scholars, our team may be the perfect fit for you.

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  Finance Knowledge: Understands key financial management, reporting, and analysis components. Understands basic accounting knowledge. Acute attention to detail coupled with the ability to think and act strategically. Ability to analyze data and information quickly.
• Strong Communicator & Project Manager: Excellent communication, collaboration, project management, and problem-solving skills. Committed to growing and welcomes feedback.
• Thrives in Startup Environment: Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, highly disciplined, but sometimes unpredictable school environment. Willingness to work autonomously, collaboratively, and/or under the direction of senior staff, as needed. Maturity, humility, strong work ethic, sense of humor, and roll-up-my-sleeves attitude.
• Commitment to Mission & Equity: Strong belief in the IPS mission and educational model. Demonstrated commitment to equity. Exceptionally high integrity.

IPS seeks individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds to apply for this position. We believe that educator diversity is critically important and are striving to recruit a team that reflects our school communities.

Who We Are

This position will support accounting, payroll, and financial reporting critical to the successful operations of Impact Public Schools. Impact Public Schools has a high degree of financial complexity, as it operates multiple entities and reports to the state, its authorizer, and funders. This position reports to the Senior Director of Finance and works closely with school leaders and members of the home office team.

Essential Functions of Impact’s Associate of Finance and Accounting

• Gather all accounts payable information, accurately code invoices, ensure approvals are properly secured and stored, and ensure that vendors are paid correctly.
• Record monthly apportionment for each school.
• Partner with the Director of Finance to ensure that Impact Public Schools collects all accounts receivable in full each month and follows up on funds that are not received.
• Prepare monthly intercompany invoices and reconcile the credit card statement.

• Accurately manage and reconcile benefit collections/payments.
• Accurately manage retirement collections, reporting, and payments.
• Support preparation of payroll every month in collaboration with the Finance team.

• Conduct AR/AP management with an eye towards ensuring that Impact is in compliance with its fiscal policies, all requirements of law, requirements of its authorizer, and requirements of funders.

• Support preparation of, and in some cases prepare, monthly reports necessary for the board, state funding, and other stakeholders.
• Prepare time and effort logs and ensure other related backup documents are stored and completed.

• Support audit process, working with accounting firm, state auditor’s office, and others.

Education, Experience and Eligibility:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Financial management experience preferred
• Previous start-up experience and/or experience in a high-performing school a plus
• Prior to the start date of employment all employees need to obtain clearance on a criminal justice fingerprint and background check.
• Prior to being made an offer, the hiring manager will ask candidates to complete a character and fitness form from the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.”
• An offer is contingent upon verification that the person is authorized to work in the United States for any employer

Impact Public Schools does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following employees have been designated to handle questions and concerns of alleged discrimination:

Civil Rights and Title IX Coordinator: Amy Kiyota, Chief Executive Officer [3900 S Holly Park Drive, Seattle WA 98118, 206-712-7640, tchui@impactps.org]

Section 504 Coordinator: Emma Bean, Chief Academic Officer [3900 S Holly Park Drive, Seattle WA 98118, 206-712-7640, ebean@impactps.org]