Accounting Manager

Carney, Sandoe & Associates, an educational recruitment firm, has been retained by an independent school in Atlanta, GA seeking an experienced Accounting Manager.

This key position is responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, maintaining strong internal controls, supporting audit and compliance requirements, and ensuring the integrity of the school’s financial information.

Responsibilities:

• Supports the CFO in maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger, preparing and reviewing journal entries, accruals, allocations, and account reconciliations.
• Performs monthly balance sheet and general ledger reconciliations, researches and resolves discrepancies, and assists with monthly and annual close processes.
• Prepares financial reports and supporting schedules, analyzes account activity and budget-to-actual results to identify unusual transactions, trends, errors, and necessary adjustments.
• Supports accounting and reconciliation for restricted and unrestricted funds, contributions and pledges, endowment and investment activity, and releases of donor restrictions.
• Maintains supporting schedules for restricted funds, endowments, capital projects, fixed assets, and other designated funds.
• Partners with Advancement and other departments to ensure financial activity is accurately reconciled and recorded in the general ledger.
• Prepares and reviews bank, investment, and other significant balance sheet reconciliations, researches and resolves outstanding items.
• Maintains schedules for cash, investments, prepaid expenses, accrued liabilities, deferred revenue, fixed assets, and other balance sheet accounts.
• Assists with recording investment activity, income, realized and unrealized gains and losses, fees, and other cash and investment activity.
• Performs a significant role in the annual financial statement audit, to include preparing audit schedules, reconciliations, supporting documentation, and providing responses to auditor requests.
• Assists the CFO with information required for Form 990 and other regulatory filings and help ensure compliance with GAAP and School accounting policies.
• Implements recommendations resulting from audits and internal control reviews.
• Collaborates with the CFO to evaluate accounting procedures, strengthen internal controls, and identify opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and accountability.
• Documents accounting procedures, maintaining appropriate segregation of duties, and supports accounting system improvements and integrations.
• Proactively identifies accounting issues and work withs the CFO to develop and implement appropriate solutions.
• Directly supervises the Bursar/Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable roles.
• Coordinates with the CFO, Accounts Payable, Bursar, Financial Aid, Development, Auxiliary Programs, and other departments to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and timely.
• Provides accounting guidance to colleagues and serve as a resource on account coding, documentation, and appropriate accounting treatment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• CPA, CPA candidate, CMA, or other professional accounting credential preferred, but not required.
• Five (5) or more years’ experience in accounting, to include supervising accounts payable, accounts receivable, and related financial functions desired.
• Experience working in an independent school or other educational or non-profit environment is strongly preferred.
• Experience with financial or accounting software and/or student information systems, particularly FACTS Management, and Blackbaud Financial Edge desired.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, strong analytical and problem-solving abilities are required.
• Demonstrated ability in general ledger accounting, reconciliations, journal entries, financial reporting, month-end close, and annual audits.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required for interacting with families and colleagues.

To Apply

Qualified candidates will be contacted to complete a job seeker profile in order to match them with their own job search counselor.

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