Bookkeeper (Brownsville Child Care)

Responsibilities

• Works on General Journal, General Ledger and trial balance.
• Trains Assistant to perform all bookkeeping functions as needed.
• Maintains complete set of records of all financial transactions.
• Balances books for the preparation of reports showing income, expenses, and other bookkeeping items.
• Checks computation of bills.
• Checks deposits, fees collected, and receipts issued.
• Checks petty cash payments.
• Prepares food claim reports.
• Collections fees, issues receipts, and reconciles receipts totals with actual cash collected.
• Prepares bank deposit slips and deposits receipts weekly.
• Posts and summarizes fee cards.
• Reports weekly on fees in arrears.
• Prepares children’s attendance reports and enters attendance in DOE Vendor Portal.
• Maintains petty cash funds by receiving bills and necessary change, entering expenditures daily, balancing petty cash daily, and entering receipt of petty cash funds.
• Keeps daily records of staff attendance, including vacation and sick leave balances.
• Acts as receptionist for childcare center and answers phones.
• Performs all typing for center, such as lists, children’s records, absence notices, late fee notices, permanent equipment requisitions, minutes and agendas for staff meetings, reports, etc.
• Maintains permanent equipment inventory.
• Affords assistance to parents in completing Child Intake Packages and Child Certification and Recertification paperwork.
• Maintains up-to-date child files.
• Requires basic computer skills - email, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and ability to do online trainings.
• Performs other duties as assigned, consistent with the above and with programmatic needs.

Qualifications

• Graduation from a commercial high school or business school with one year of high school Bookkeeping courses or six credits of college accounting.
• Knowledge of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• One-year experience related in Bookkeeping.