Staff Accountant/Purchasing Agent
Position Title: Staff Accountant/Purchasing Agent
Department: Business Office
Immediate Supervisor’s Title: Coordinator of Financial Services
Positions Supervised: None
Term of Position: 12 Months - Non Exempt
Position Description:(primary functions)
Records and maintains financial transactions by updating the general ledger, ensuring appropriate coding, preparing financial statements, reconciling bank statements, and reviewing accounts payable documentation. Acts as the institution’s Purchasing Agent, reviewing/approving procurement packets, following State of Mississippi and institutional policies.
Minimum Requirements:
Must have an Associate Degree; Bachelor Degree preferred. Must have at least 2 years of business related experience.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Review/approve vendor procurement packets relative to the institutions’ purchases of goods and services. Ensure adequate budget exists for the purchases and the institution’s system of account coding is accurately documented and appropriately requested by supervision/leadership. Maintain a systematic vendor file inclusive of current remittance addresses and FEIN’s.
- Obtain supervisory approval for price increase variances related to approved purchase orders.
- Assist with receipt posting, student registration, billing inquires, payment plans, filing and retrieving vendor packets and opening mail.
- Create/maintain bid documents for contract solicitations and provide packets to advertisement and web services for posting.
- Provide departmental expenditures reports and complete grantor cash reimbursements.
- Complete bank reconciliations, ensuring to document for variances and/or inconsistencies.
- Provide input and assist in the planning, organizing, and implementation of office policy and procedure revisions.
- Assist with the reviewing/processing accounts payable check dockets.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
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Non-Discrimination Statement
Coahoma Community College is an equal opportunity institution in accordance with civil
rights and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex,
disability, age, or other factors prohibited by law in any of its educational programs,
activities and employment opportunities. The following person has been designated
to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: Taneshia T. Winston,
Director of Employee Services/Coordinator for 504/ADA, Title IX Compliance Officer,
Office #A100, Vivian M. Presley Administration Building, 3240 Friars Point Road, Clarksdale,
Mississippi 38614, Phone: (662) 621-4853, Email: twinston@coahomacc.edu