Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager

Salary : $121,812.00 - $153,228.00 Annually

Job Type : Full Time

Job Number : Account-tmanager-2025

Closing : 6 / 24 / 2025 11 : 59 PM Pacific

Location : Norwalk, CA

Department : Account-tmanager-2025

Division : Business Services

Description

Equity and Diversity

The District is strongly committed to achieving staff diversity and the principles of equal opportunity employment. The District encourages a diverse pool of applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, marital status, disability, or sexual orientation in any of its policies, procedures or practices. In fact, the college encourages applications from all segments of qualified people.

Closing Date

This position will close on June 24, 2025 at 11 : 59 PM.

College Profile

Cerritos College is ranked 14th among the top 100 schools with the highest Hispanic enrollment in the United States by the United States Department of Education. Cerritos College serves as a comprehensive community college for southeastern Los Angeles County. Communities within the college's district include Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Downey, Hawaiian Gardens, La Mirada, Norwalk, and portions of Bell Gardens, Lakewood, Long Beach, Santa Fe Springs and South Gate. Cerritos College offers degrees and certificates in more than 180 areas of study in nine divisions. Enrollment currently averages 20,000 students. Visit Cerritos College online at http : / / www.cerritos.edu .

Department Profile

The Accounting Department ensures the integrity of Cerritos College's financial reporting and enables effective and efficient campus financial processes and controls.

Summary

Plans, supervises, assesses and evaluates the duties of accounting operations to insure accurate and timely processing and payment of invoices, issuance of bills, statements, and cash receipts for accounts receivable, full cycle accounting for student body accounts, and maintenance of general ledger accounts, including journal entries and account reconciliation and analysis. The position also provides complex administrative support to the Director, Fiscal Services.

Distinguishing Career Features

The Manager, Accounting reports to the Director, Fiscal Services and is responsible for the efficient and effective operations of the accounting operations function. This position requires a demonstrated ability to maintain current accounting operations, up-to-date general ledger, and apply, interpret, and implement approved accounting controls.

Job Duties

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, and supervises the work of accounting office staff including receipt and disbursement of funds, financial performance statements including general ledger, and other fiscal activities.
• Establishes standards and work assignments, assigns staff to specific accounting areas to balance workload and optimize use of available skills. Coordinates schedules and approves absences.
• Leads, supervises, trains and evaluates assigned personnel. Certifies payroll for assigned personnel. Applies the terms and provisions of applicable collective bargaining agreements; state and federal laws; and District Board Policies and Administrative Procedures in personnel matters.
• Provides leadership in the new and emerging technologies in support of fiscal services.
• Applies, interprets, and implements accounting controls governing financial transactions and activity. Ensures separation of activities, access to and accounting of transactions, and proper levels of documentation.
• Audits and approves accounts payable transactions and documents entered and prepared by accounting technicians to assure accuracy, completeness and compliance with contracts and district policies and procedures. Verifies and approves warrants.
• Maintains the general ledger by uploading, consolidating, and incorporating transactions interfaced from admissions and records, and financial aid. Reviews prepaid expenses, stale dated checks, and due to-and-from accounts, and year-end accruals. Reconciles and analyzes accounts and prepares journal entries.
• Participates in year-end closing of the general ledger for year-end financial reporting. Assists with the coordination of annual audit report with independent auditors. Coordinates documents, answers questions, and prepares requested reports for the annual audit.
• Oversees revolving petty cash funds and issuance of checks. Verifies that requests are valid, and contain appropriate approvals and signatures. Reconciles and reimburses petty cash by charging accounts and making deposits.
• Oversees change fund quarterly with departments.
• Review retention policy of financial documents for storage or destruction.
• Works with bank and online portal providing administrative support to ensure proper deposit and payment status of accounts.
• Oversees financial aid disbursements, transferring data to oversight agencies, production of reports, and compliance with federal requirements.
• Prepares a variety of reports for management, county, state, and federal agencies. Ensures compliance with accounting and legal requirements. Prepares and distributes sales tax and 1099 forms and reports.
• Reviews financial record-keeping procedures, techniques and methods. Recommends and implements new or improved procedures and techniques, assuring efficiency and compliance with Board policies, administrative procedures, and applicable government regulations. Trains staff to perform transactions according to requirements.
• Conducts financial and procedural analysis of revenue, enrollment, financial aid, and related data. Prepares reports for the County Office of Education.
• Assists with internal and external audits, including State and Federal, by providing information and documentation for accounting transactions and petty cash, financial aid, and student body accounts. Inputs correcting journal entries recommended by auditors.
• Serves as a technical resource for the financial accounting software applications. Assists the Director, Fiscal Services with special projects and analyses. Assembles data by developing queries of the college's integrated data management systems, constructing spreadsheets,

and compiling information to common formats.

Minimum Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications for Education and Experience

Requires a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or equivalent specialty, and four years of progressively responsible experience in professional accounting, two of which must involve leadership over staff that are processing transactions and producing of financial reports.

Understanding of and sensitivity to meeting the needs of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability and ethnic background of the student, community, and employee population.

Supplemental Information

Knowledge and Skills

The position requires professional knowledge of :

The position requires demonstrated skill in :

Abilities

This position requires the ability to :

Physical Abilities

This position requires the physical ability to :

Licenses and Certificates

May require a valid driver's license

Working Conditions

Work is performed indoors where minimal safety considerations exist.

Physical Demands

Physical requirements may be met with or without reasonable accommodations. Requires ambulatory ability to move to various office and classroom-type locations. Ability to operate classroom equipment, including computer, and provide instruction and make presentations. Ability to communicate effectively with individuals or groups to carry on complex or routine conversations. Requires the ability to lift, push, and pull objects of medium weight (less than 30 lbs.) on an occasional basis.

Salary / Fringe Benefits

Grade 28 on District Management Salary Schedule ($10,151.00- $12,769.00 / month).

Health and welfare benefits include District contribution for medical / dental / vision benefits and employee life insurance ($50,000). (Cash in lieu option available on medical insurance.)

Participation in the Public Employee's Retirement System that is also integrated with Social Security or State Teacher's Retirement System

22 days annual vacation.

An annual stipend of $4,023 shall be provided to management employees with an earned doctorate degree.

Selection Procedure

After the application closing date, a search committee will review and invite the most qualified applicants for an interview. As these are highly competitive positions, meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee an interview. If you have questions or would like to follow-up regarding your application, please contact Human Resources at HR@Cerritos.edu as search committee members are unable to discuss specific recruitments.

Conditions of Employment

This is a full-time 12-calendar month classified manager position. Employment is to be effective as soon as possible following completion of the selection process. Individual who is offered employment shall be required to obtain fingerprints for a criminal history clearance through the State Department of Justice and remit the required fee for processing the fingerprints, Federal Bureau of Investigation (no fee if obtained at Cerritos College Campus Police Station), produce an original social security card, and submit negative TB test results (must be within the past four years or within the last 60 days if not previously employed in a school district in California) before employment.

Proof of eligibility to work in the United States and signing of loyalty oath per Government Codes 3100-3109.

Candidates must be available to work on site and be able to provide proof of California residency prior to employment.

Application Procedures

Application materials must be submitted by the closing date. Applicants who need special services or facilities due to disability in order to apply or interview for this position must notify Human Resources at the time of application or at least 72 hours prior to the closing date or date of a scheduled interview.

It is the applicant's responsibility to provide copies of all transcript(s) verifying all educational degree(s) and / or coursework required for the position. Transcripts must be from regionally accredited institutions. A foreign transcript must be evaluated by a NACES certified agency. The website address is www.naces.org.

Required Documents

To apply, visit https : / / www.schooljobs.com / careers / cerritosedu / jobs / 4939831 / accounting-manager

The District ensures that all qualified applicants for employment and employees have full and equal access to employment opportunity, and are not subjected to discrimination in any program or activity of the District on the basis of national origin, religion, age, sex or gender, race, color, medical condition, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or because he or she is perceived to have one or more of the foregoing characteristics, or based on association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. .

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