Director of Accounting

Title: Director of Accounting

Salary Range: $55,392.00 - $69,252.00

Contract Term Length: 12 Months

Standard Hours: 37.5

Work Location: On-Site

FLSA Status: Exempt

College: Big Sandy Community & Technical College

Campus Location: Prestonsburg Community College

Department: Business Affairs

Total Rewards

Big Sandy Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:

• Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
• Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Work-Life Balance
• 9.5 Paid Holidays
• 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
• Employee Assistance Program

Job Summary

Big Sandy Community & Technical College is seeking a Director of Accounting. This position handles and/or supervises the non-student financial functions including all aspects of purchasing, inventory tagging and monitoring, cash and accounting journal entries, bank/GL reconciliations, pulling various queries/reports, preparing occasional reports, and assisting with budget development as needed. The position will be located on the Prestonsburg Campus (with occasional travel to other campuses as needed).

Job Duties:

Accounting - Handles the non-student financial functions including preparing accounting journals; reconciling bank, GL, and clearing accounts; preparing financial reports, works with other departments to clear outstanding items, etc.

Inventory Monitoring – Compiles Inventory reports, tracks and monitors inventory changes, oversees all tagging of inventory, collects and tracks all Off-Site Use of Equipment forms, and works closely with purchasing of items to be inventoried.

Purchasing – Supervises purchasing; assists with purchasing and business procedure trainings as needed; prepare reports; provides oversight of utility, lease, custodial, fleet, and contract payments and reconciliation; etc.

Budgeting – Assists with budget development, monitoring, HR encumbrances, and reports; pulls payroll reports for grants and other reconciliation purposes; assist with grant budget entries and revisions; etc.

Mail Room – Provides oversight of mail room operations.

Other financial duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree and three to four years related experience preferably Business, Finance or Accounting or work equivalency. 

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's Degree and three to four years related experience preferably Business, Finance or Accounting or work equivalency.

Additional Skills Requested:

Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel

Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection Act

Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.