What You’ll Bring
Need to Have
- BA degree in Accounting required. CPA preferred.
- Minimum three to five years progressively more responsible accounting experience. Experience in a school environment is preferred.
- Michigan School Business Official certification preferred.
- Demonstrated skills with supervisory functions including but not limited to appraisal, team building, continuous improvement, data driven decision making, problem solving and conflict management.
- Demonstrated strong analytical skill and experience in working with financial data and complex financial calculation and formulas. Makes decisions based upon data gathered, interpreted and integrated from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated ability to learn, understand and apply complex statutes, rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
- Leadership skills to effectively direct and support ISD and constituent district staff within areas of responsibilities.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills in effective communication to better work with ISD, constituent district staff and other external contracts.
- Ability to organize work in order to efficiently meet deadlines and assigned tasks.
- Advanced skills in the use of technology to create complex spreadsheets and databases, enter and manipulate data and generate reports/documents.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including effective presentation skills
- Ability to understand systems and has experience with process development and improvement.
- Demonstrated leadership and experience in proposal development and project management.
- Demonstrated consultation, training and facilitation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to understand needs of our constituency and program administrators to find funding sources and grant programs to address needs.
