What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Report Specialist, Accounting position at Cleveland Metropolitan School District?
Position Type:
Administration and Professionals
Date Posted:
2025-02-06
Location:Administration or As Assigned
INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100 schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD’s approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland’s schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for
performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district’s Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective.
Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World:
In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Location: Administration or As Assigned
Reports to: Director, Accounting
FLSA Status: Exempt
Salary Band: 13
Compensation: $49,980.00 - $69,972.00
Under general direction of the Executive Director of Contract Implementation, the Director of Employee Hearings is responsible for conducting labor hearings and issuing dispositions, analyzing labor contracts, conducting labor relations research, and adjudicating disputes regarding collective bargaining agreement(s) and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
Position Summarry
The Financial Report Specialist is responsible for providing accounting, financial reporting, and document/data preparation/analysis support directly to the Director of Accounting in meaningful support of the Controller’s and the CFO’s objectives. The Financial Report Specialist is responsible for recording daily and monthly transactional activity within the general ledger and subsystems, as appropriate; performing month- and year-end closing activities; reconciling accounts; preparing financial related reports such as the general fund budget to actual report; coordinating the annual financial statement audit and other compliance, externally driven operational, compliance or financial audits/reviews, as assigned; developing and analyzing documents and schedules.
Responsibilities
- Provides technical support for external financial statement or other regulatory audits and reviews by preparing relevant, supportable, coherent, and accurate schedules and with most issues identified, resolved, and documented
- Prepares account reconciliations including bank-to-book reconciliations while researching and seeking resolution of variances to perform reconciliation of cash and investments
- Prepares account reconciliations including bank-to-book reconciliations while researching and seeking resolution of variances
- Instrumentally assists in the coordination of all activities required to produce the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Five-Year Forecast, and Tax Budget, and other documents and deliverables that may arise from time-to-time
- Conducts variance analysis between budgeted and actual GAAP or fund financial
results and thoroughly investigates, understands, and sufficiently documents the
rationale for the variances and documenting results.
- Maintain control over the district’s accounting system and the integrity of the information submitted to it
- Preparing and issuing numerous financial reports, including the Comprehensive Annual Report
- Collect Tax Reimbursements for Procurement Card transactions via clover system
- Timely and accurately posts receipts including property taxes and State Foundation resources into the General Ledger and expenditure transactions
- Provides a backup for cash management, treasury, and ACH/wire preparation or approvals and for the Director of Accounting should she/he become unavailable
- Audit, monitor, review, and process expenditures to ensure accuracy and completeness, maintenance and monitoring
- Assist with other duties related to the efficient operation of the office of the Chief Financial Officer and his/her executive staff
- Assist in the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
- Assist with the year end audit
- Prepare and record various journal entries
- Works under tight deadlines and handles multiple, detail-oriented tasks with close attention to detail
- Performs all other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Baccalaureate degree in accounting, business administration or finance preferred
- PC knowledge working in a Windows Environment, knowledge of Office 2000 Word, Access, and PowerPoint
- Robust experience with Excel including Pivot Tables, V-Lookup, Data Query, etc.
- 2 years’ experience in Financial Reporting Preferred
- Strong analytical, organizational, and multitasking skills with a commitment to accuracy
- Data entry and administrative support experience
- Excellent organization, verbal and oral communication skills, and ability to work as a team player
- Ability to multi-task, complete work within time constraints, and collaborate with coworkers
- The successful candidate should be willing to do whatever it takes to advance CMSD’s transformation work
WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Expected moving, walking, and standing consistent with an office environment and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
- The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal office environment.
- Local travel may be required for training/meetings.
NOTE: The above stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of similar nature or level of responsibility.
EEO STATEMENT
We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The District’s Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District’s Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District’s Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at
ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105
.
The District’s Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:
1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(216)-838-0070
TitleIX_EEO@ClevelandMetroSchools.org
Education
To Apply
Please submit your resume and application using Workday, our online human capital management system. Please note that an offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of an FBI/BCI background check and drug screen.
EEO Statement
We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The District’s Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District’s Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District’s Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District’s Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:
1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(216)-838-0070
TitleIX_EEO@ClevelandMetroSchools.org
Salary : $49,980 - $69,972
