(Full-time beginning June 1, 2023)

Head-Royce School is seeking a Senior Accountant to work in the Business Office, supports budgeting, creates and administers a budgeting model for auxiliary programs, and assists the Director of Finance. The Senior Accountant is a reliable professional with well developed knowledge of accounting.

Job Responsibilities/Expectations

• Reconcile multiple Bank Accounts
• Prepare payroll journal entries
• Streamline payroll procedures and processes
• Reconcile Investment/Endowment Accounts
• Advancement: Reconcile Raisers Edge vs. Financial Edge (Blackbaud)
• General Ledger analysis - Journal entries including, but not limited to:
• Record Tuition Revenue
• Record and reconcile Prepaids and Amortizations
• Record Depreciation
• Submit 403B retirement plan on a timely basis

Month end close

• Interfund transfers
• Report on departmental actual vs budget and distribution of reports to departments heads

Quarterly

• Balance sheet schedules
• Financial reporting as needed
• Reconcile the Endowment Unitization Schedule

Annually

• Special filings, as needed
• Enforces the use of generally accepted accounting principles and bookkeeping procedures to keep an accurate continuous record of transactions and cash.

Qualifications

• Position requires 3+ years of accounting/financial management experience, preferable in an independent school environment.  
• Proven experience with budgeting and reporting.  
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, and experience with automated accounting systems.
• Excellent communications skills, and good interpersonal, organizational skills. 
• Demonstrated skill in use of accounting software systems.  Knowledge of the Blackbaud accounting package for schools is a plus.
• Ability to communicate with staff and ability to use a computer for data entry, data retrieval, and report preparation.
• Experience with accounting and business-related software, Microsoft Office applications.
• Work independently as well as with professional staff, parent and community groups, 
• Present a positive attitude, to be self-motivated and manage stressful situations with tact, including meeting schedules and deadlines.
• Experience working in a nonprofit environment is highly desirable, especially paid or volunteer work at an independent school.

• Work within a community that expects collegiality and open communication
• Able to maintain confidentiality

Skills

•  Comfortable working in and with diverse student and adult populations
•  Proficient within the Mac and Google Suite environment, using databases
•  Proficient with Blackbaud accounting system strongly preferred
•  Self-motivated, excellent work habits, including a willingness to work the hours necessary to get the job done, especially when important deadlines cause greater than normal departmental pressures
•  Ability to multi-task, work under pressure, and meet deadlines required
•  Prior experience as a manager/supervisor of others

Other Requirements

•  Must be fully vaccinated (and boosted) against Covid-19 and show proof of negative TB test within the last four years in addition to participation in background screening

Located on a 22-acre campus in Oakland, California, Head-Royce is a pre-eminent, co-educational, independent, K-12 day school with a 136-year history. Our mission is to inspire in our students a lifelong love of learning & pursuit of academic excellence, to promote understanding of & respect for diversity that makes our society strong & to encourage active & responsible global citizenship.

Head-Royce enrolls 900 students in the three separate divisions — Lower, Middle & Upper Schools — & provides a dynamic, whole-child education to every student. With our Strategic Plan, Bridge to 2022, the school’s current initiatives include advancing an innovative, student-centered program, promoting an inclusive community, driving deeper civic engagement, sustaining a culture of balance & well-being & carefully stewarding our resources.

Other Considerations

Compensation: $94,300-$105,300 

Location: Oakland, California
Travel: (minimal)
Education: Bachelor’s degree required
Start Date: May, 2023
Website:  headroyce.org 

To Apply

Interested candidates are asked to submit a letter of interest and a current resume.  

Head-Royce School is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best available person in every job. School policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on age, color, creed, disability, gender, marital status, national origin or ancestry, race, religion, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, a medical condition including genetic characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.Head-Royce School seeks to be a community in which every individual is treated with sensitivity, courtesy and respect.

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