Experience

Lansing School District

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Accounting Manager

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  Prepare financial projections, analyses, and reports to respond to both internal and external requests. Train and evaluate department employees as required. Assist in preparation of documents for the annual audit. Development oversight, and testing of internal control procedures as they relate to accounting. Development and maintenance of asystem to process and monitor financial transactions. Oversight of all district accounting, including fixed assets and categorical programs. Supervision of accountant and accounts payable positions. Development and preparation of accounting reporting to the Board of Education, Cabinet, and other District Administrators. Development and preparation of accounting reporting to various federal, state, and local governmental agencies. Reviews grant applicants for reasonableness, district obligations, spending restrictions, and reporting requirements. Development and maintenance of administrative regulations to support board policies related to accounting and finance. Provide for the education and training of district staff on accounting and budgeting procedures. Review and approval of account coding for purchase orders.

• Business Specialist

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  Purchasing duties include reviewing all requisitions entered for accuracy of descriptions, accounts used for purchases, backup documentation, and appropriate approval group. Convert requisitions to purchase orders, route POs for approval, send fully approved POs to vendor. Responsible for change order processing, closing POs, and updating existing POs and requisitions, as necessary. Train employees to use the purchasing software as well as the go to person for questions or problems concerning purchasing procedures or related issues. Accounting duties include balancing and reconciling of individual p-card (for the district Amazon account), in addition to overseeing the district p-card reconciliation process, balancing accounts, preparing, and posting journal entries. Other duties include adding new employees to and updating current employees in Card Access, as well as help manage the online facility rental for the district.



Lapeer Community Schools

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Payroll and Benefits Manager

  • May 2019 - Oct 2019

  Manage semi-monthly payroll for over 600 employees. Responsibilities include overseeing payroll deductions, salary information, payroll accounts, and Federal and State reporting including Michigan Office of Retirement Services, 941 reports, ACA reporting, W2's, unemployment reporting, and state payroll taxes. Duties also included managing dental, vision, health, life and LTD coverage for all eligible employees. This included organizing the yearly open enrollment. Other job duties are performed relating to FMLA, long-term disability, 403(b) and 457(b) accounts, onboarding, and terminations. This position included the overseeing of purchasing for the district.

• Payroll Specialist and Purchasing Agent

  • Apr 2016 - May 2019

  Job duties included Michigan Office of Retirement Services reporting and reconciliation, place and distribute yearly Co-op order for the district, inventory control, dealing directly and indirectly with outside vendors. Clerical duties related to payroll included wage adjustments, electronic timekeeping through Ultratime, performing leave accruals and deductions for employees, and calculating special pays like longevity and attendance incentives. Clerical duties related to purchasing included entering new vendors, requisition and Purchase Order processing, p-card reconciliation, and preparing journal entries. I also assisted the district through a software conversion of the HR/Finance system and restructuring of the business office which improved my technological thinking skills and abilities.