Sr. Accountant - Grants​/Special Education

If you love spreadsheets and purpose, you’ll fit right in. Our Finance Team brings analytical minds to real-world impact—supporting schools, guiding smart decisions, and making sure every dollar works as hard as our educators do. Plus, we genuinely like solving problems together (and a good pivot table never hurts).

The Special Education Senior Accountant oversees a wide range of complex duties and responsibilities, including budgeting, accounting, procurement, and HR/payroll functions. Other roles include in-depth analysis of SPED budget trends and forecasting, interpretation of SPED fiscal policies and statutes at the local/state and federal levels and extensive tracking of the ECEA/IDEA revenues and expenditures that comprise Special Education’s State/Federal Grants and the various General Fund Programs: SPED Instruction, Speech Language Pathology, Transition, Work Study, Psychology Services, Social Work, Audiology Services, Occupational/Physical Therapy, Behavior Intervention, SPED Preschool and SPED Administration.

• Performs accounting/financial related activities for SPED’s IDEA federal grants, including budget modifications and forecasts, expenditure reporting, requesting monthly funds from CDE, and writing/modifying federal narratives and performance reports.
• Drafts original and amended annual and semi-annual financial reports to the Colorado Department of Education and/or appropriate federal offices. Performs extensive accounting functions for all ECEA and IDEA revenue and expenditure accounts.
• Reviews and approves SPED payroll for extra work, overtime, temporary and substitute hours
• Performs financial/budgeting related activities for SPED’s ECEA General Fund Programs, including budget monitoring and modifications, forecasts, expenditure reporting, and budget proposals.
• Reviews grant-funded teachers in SPED for proper CDE licensure.
• Oversees and manages the financial support staff in the SPED department.
• Analyzes and monitors departmental authorized FTE and performs associated budgeting for state and federal funds.
• Approves all District 11 P-Card statements for SPED P-Card holders
• Serves as the District’s SPED Grants Fiscal Point of Contact and assists independent auditors with grant fiscal information required for audits.
• Approves invoice payments for SPED’s multiple Program expenditures.
• Oversees the purchase requests/orders process for all ECEA and IDEA contracts in Business Plus.
• Approves FTE budget for all personnel requisitions for multiple SPED Support Programs, in addition to approving FTE budget for all SPED teacher and SPED Paraprofessional personnel requisitions from schools.
• Maintains accounting information in accordance with applicable record retention (archive) laws, policies, and regulations
• Analyzes and monitors General Fund expenditures in SPED for Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirements for the Colorado Department of Education.
• Manages the journal entry and budget transfer processes for the SPED department.
• Prepares financial information for conversions of FTE to pay for contracted vendors.
• Provides oversight of the monthly Time and Effort submissions for the federal grants’ staff.
• Budgets, monitors, and reports IDEA expenditures to CDE for all Charter schools.
• Liaisons with Business Services, Human Resources, Information Technology, Budgeting,
• Procurement and other Departments as needed
• Provides accounting/budgeting support to the Director of Individualized Education. Performs other duties as assigned

• Diverse working knowledge of governmental accounting principles and practices as applied to public school accounting and budgeting (GAAP, GASB accounting standards).
• Strong working knowledge of federal, state and CDE fiscal policies
• Extensive knowledge of budgeting and forecasting skills to implement Special Education’s multi-program budgets.
• Knowledge of Single Audit and program audit requirements, processes and procedures as applied to SPED.
• Advanced analytical skills to analyze accounting/budgeting data and prepare SPED financial reports for the District and CDE.
• Knowledge of Colorado Department of Education’s…