Building Bookkeeper

Salary Schedule: Office Assistant
Overtime Exempt: No
Days: 210 Days, 8 Hours Per Day
Reports To: Building Principal
Location: Schools

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION
The incumbent is responsible for preparing all purchase orders, ordering needed items and monitoring the schools budget to insure accuracy at all times. Handle all financial transactions both revenue and expenditure for all operating and activity accounts, and other duties as assigned. Balance building budget and all activity accounts.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Enter purchase requests and make purchases as directed.
• Prepare purchase orders and invoices to be paid. Call in orders when purchase orders are returned from the central office.
• Prepare and make deposits.
• Handle building substitutes by making calls to request subs for absent teachers.
• Count all money collected by teachers for field trips, snacks sales, etc and deposit into proper accounts.
• Responsible for keeping copy machines and other machines running and supplied.
• Enter all bus requests for the building and schedule buses for field trips as necessary.
• Relieve staff for lunch and assist in answering telephones as needed.
• Handle payroll and complete staff absence(s) through AESOP.
• Request and handle building door cards.
• Enter requisitions for maintenance on building and grounds.
• Responsible for helping to order, set up and clean up for staff meetings, faculty in-services, parent teacher conferences and open house.
• Responsible for filling postage machine, maintenance and upgrades and delivering daily mail to teacher boxes as needed.
• Handle fines and lost books.
• Appropriately assist students and parents that enter the office.
• Prepare monthly report of all vendors who do not charge sales tax and send to central office.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
High school, plus specialized schooling and/or on the job education in a specific skill area; e.g. data processing, clerical/administrative, equipment operation, etc, plus 12 to 18 months related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.

SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED

• Mastery: Alphanumeric Data Entry
• Advanced: 10-Key
• Intermediate: Spreadsheet
• Basic: Accounting, Contact Management, Word Processing/Typing

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Bentonville School District is committed to having an academic and work environment in which all students and employees are treated with respect and dignity. Harassment of any type will not be tolerated. All employees will follow all State and Federal laws including, but not limited to, HIPAA and FERPA laws.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations. While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, talk or hear; occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; and color vision.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.