"Accountant (Temporary)"

Accountant (Temporary)

Ohlone College

Salary: $38.23 - $42.16 Hourly

Job Type: Temporary

Division: Administrative Services

Opening Date: 11/14/2025

Location: Fremont Campus

Job Number: 202300168

Department: Administrative Services

Bargaining Unit: N/A

Ideal Candidate Statement

Under the direction of an administrator, perform professional fund accounting and budgetary work involved in establishing, analyzing, auditing, reconciling, and maintaining financial records; provide administrative support in the review, analysis, and development of designated budgets and accounts; prepare and audit a variety of financial, statistical, and budgetary reports, statements, and records.

This is a temporary position, limited to a maximum of 165 working days within a fiscal year.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Perform professional fund accounting and budgetary work involved in establishing, analyzing, auditing, reconciling, and maintaining financial records;
2. Set up account codes per BAM and prepare and enter opening budget, budget transfer requests, budget increases and decreases throughout the year;
3. Assure that financial activity of assigned accounts complies with applicable laws, codes, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures;
4. Calculate, post, audit, and adjust journal entries and update accounts to reflect revenue and expenditures;
5. Audit accounts for errors and make appropriate adjustments and reconcile various fiscal statements and budgets to assure accurate fund accounting and financial statements and cash amounts match organizational records including initiating account transfer and other transactions as needed;
6. Provide support, assistance, monitoring, and filing reports for deposits, grants, and categorical programs;
7. Prepare year-end closing reports for various assigned funds;
8. Provide support to auditors for assigned categorical and grant funds and assure the accuracy and completeness of auditable documentation and records. In addition, review and provide necessary data and submit required forms to appropriate Federal and State agencies;
9. Assist and communicate with management in creating and maintaining different restricted budgets to assure compliance with applicable laws, rules, regulations, codes, and College policies and procedures, and generate, update, and distribute expenditure sheets;
10. Oversee, maintain and monitor the appropriate disbursement and expenditure of program-specific and restricted funds;
11. Assure program compliance with applicable laws, regulations and codes related to capital projects, scheduled maintenance and assigned bond measures, and assure invoice approval in accordance with audit requirements;
12. Reconcile and develop a variety of accounting systems, media, and documents for presentations as required, inclusive of any oversight committee presentations as assigned;
13. Oversee the auditing and reconciliation of endowments, including downloading bank statements and preparing journal entries to record and reconcile earned interest for various bonds;
14. Demonstrate sensitivity to and respect for the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability and ethnic backgrounds of the College's students, faculty, staff, and community.
15. Effectively engage and support historically disproportionately impacted groups by addressing issues of equity and improving culturally responsive service-oriented practices;
16. Perform other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge:

1. Methods, procedures and terminology used in professional fund accounting work;
2. General accounting and business functions of an educational organization, including general ledger, sub-ledger, budget, and payroll functions;
3. Financial and statistical record-keeping techniques;
4. The preparation of financial statements and comprehensive accounting reports;
5. Budgeting practices regarding monitoring and control;
6. Research and statistical evaluation techniques;
7. Applicable laws, codes, regulations, policies and procedures including those related to Federal OMBs, sales tax and IRS laws pertaining to 501(c)3 status;
8. Professional oral and written communication.

Skills:

1. Interpret budgetary and financial records;
2. Apply and explain budgetary and accounting rules, regulations, policies and procedures;
3. Analyze financial data and prepare reports, forecasts, and recommendations;
4. Utilize sound mathematical skills, principles, reasoning, and statistical analysis;
5. Develop financial and statistical charts, databases, and spreadsheets;
6. Institute effective organizational, and management skills;
7. Utilize problem-solving and reasoning;
8. Operate a computer and assigned software, including database systems;
9. Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Ability:

1. Perform professional accounting and budgetary work involved in establishing, analyzing, auditing, reconciling, and maintaining financial records;
2. Review, analyze and develop designated budgets and accounts;
3. Compare numbers and detect errors efficiently;
4. Reconcile, balance, and audit assigned budgets and accounts;
5. Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and develop collaborative relationships;
6. Maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others;
7. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide quickly and accurately;
8. Meet schedules and timelines;
9. Operate standard office equipment, including a computer and assigned software.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination equivalent to a bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field

AND

three years of professional accounting experience performing varied financial analysis, record-keeping, and report preparation.

AND

Must have evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practices.

Physical Demands

This position requires physical abilities needed to work in a standard office setting, including but not limited to: standing and/or sitting for prolonged periods; occasional stooping, bending, kneeling, and twisting; occasional lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling light and moderate amounts of weight; operating office equipment which may require repeated fine motor skills (e.g.: keyboard use); and the ability to communicate in written and verbal forms. The position requires vision and hearing in normal ranges (with or without correction) sufficient to operate any assigned equipment and the ability to clearly communicate with others in written and verbal forms.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Environmental Elements

Primarily, work will be in an indoor office environment.

To apply, please visit https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/ohlone/jobs/5143621/accountant-temporary