Accountant

Position: Accountant

Organization:Charlotte Bilingual Preschool

Location: 6300 Highland Ave, Charlotte, NC 28215

Reports To: Operations Director

Organization Overview

Mission

To prepare Spanish-speaking children for success in school and life by providing superior dual language, multi-cultural early childhood education.

Enduring Vision

Charlotte-Mecklenburg is a place where differences in language and culture are mutually enriching, and all children have greater access to advantage and opportunity.

Overview

Charlotte Bilingual Preschool (CltBP) is developing the model of culturally appropriate, dual language early childhood education for Latinx children and their families in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and our nation. We bring our many programs into the service of meeting our mission. Our two-generation model:

Provides 3- and 4-year-old Spanish-speaking children with superior dual language, multi-cultural preschool instruction in the only 5-star licensed dual language preschool program in North Carolina

Helps families build literacy and kindergarten-readiness skills for their children from infancy to 5-years-old

Offers family members the resources they want to become active participants in their children's early childhood development

Trains the next generation of professionally certified dual-language early childhood educators

Expands our reach by building a decentralized dual language early education delivery system to replicate with partner sites and maximize our impact

Advocates state- and nationwide for our early-childhood education model, our children, and their families. We provide family members and supporters with the tools they want to voice their views to policymakers and remove the systemic barriers that have historically prevented them from thriving.

Opportunity

Building on this momentum,?CltBP's?board of directors approved a game-changing strategic plan in early 2020 that includes dramatic expansion over the next ten years, growing its impact to meet the needs of ten times as many children and their families annually. This plan calls for expanding reach through partnerships with other preschools, evolving the current preschool into a full-day early learning center, and developing a dual language early learning workforce

The Role

Reporting to the Operations Director, the Accountant is responsible for providing accurate financial data and recommendations based on their findings. The individual creates systems and processes for analyzing, writing, and following legal requirements and recommends improvements to business procedures.

Essential Duties

Accountable for timely and accurately capturing all financial transitions, including:

Tracks payables and expenses, ensures bills are paid, and clears the bank feed?

Maintains AP vendor files

Maintains fixed asset listing

Ensures tuition revenue is properly recorded

Works with Advancement team to ensure revenues are properly recorded

Manages weekly deposit process

Allocates/maps expenses to specific grants/funding sources

Records monthly, quarterly, and yearly adjustments for: Depreciation-Prepaid -ExpensesAccruals-Bad Debt

Ensures internal control processes are effectively executed

Supports HR Associate and Third-Party Controller to ensure payroll information is properly coded and entered correctly and on time

Point person for collecting and responding to all internal financial questions

Responsible for maintaining/collecting credit card receipts

Team liaison with Third Party Controller

Maintains appropriate fiscal records and assists with audit

Works with Third Party Controller to support preparation of financial documents such as financial forecasts and statements

Supports the Third-Party Controller in maintaining the Fiscal Policies & Procedures document with input from the Finance Committee

Prepares 1099s to be filed.