Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager

Holyoke Public Schools FINANCE & OPERATIONS - Holyoke, Massachusetts Open in Google Maps

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• Job : 5802450
• Final date to receive applications: Jul 09, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
• Posted: Jun 25, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)
• Starting Date: Immediately

District Overview

Holyoke Public Schools is a PreK-12 public school district serving nearly 4,800 students, of whom 80 percent are Latino/Latina, in 11 schools. We employ nearly 1,300 people who together educate and support a richly diverse community of learners. We are committed to recruiting and retaining top-quality educators who believe all children can and will learn and who strive daily to make school a joyful place of discovery, support, and belonging.

Holyoke Public Schools’ strategic plan, “Moving Forward Together,” builds on the strengths of our past while serving as a call to action to accelerate student learning by thinking differently about how we teach, how we work together, and how we support students’ well‑being.

Many successes contributed to Holyoke’s return to local governance after 10 years in state receivership, including:

• The highest graduation rate on record of 77.1 percent, an increase of more than 15 points over 10 years
• Meaningful, applied learning opportunities for high school students, including theme-based academies, career vocational technical education programming, work-based learning, and advanced coursework
• A comprehensive approach to early literacy that includes strong core instruction and one‑on‑one tutoring, contributing to more students reading at grade level
• A thriving dual language English/Spanish program, where nearly 900 students are on their path to becoming bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural
• More than one‑third of Holyoke teachers identify as people of color, a 19‑point increase over 10 years. Many partnership programs support staff to earn licensure or additional certification.

Visit the Holyoke Public Schools website to learn more about us, our recent accomplishments, and our commitment to equity.

The Accounting Manager is responsible for providing direction and compliance with all accounting functions of the District and ensuring that the office uses school business strategies and practices that promote the best educational outcome for Holyoke Public Schools. The Accounting Manager is required to perform a variety of complex professional, administrative, supervisory, and technical accounting and finance functions that promote efficient and expeditious administration of the day‑to‑day financial operations that maintain compliance with established guidelines.

• Monitors budget allocations, expenditures, fund balances and related financial activities for the purpose of ensuring that allocations are accurate, revenues are recorded, expenses are within budget limits and/or fiscal practices are followed
• Interprets data and presents information to senior management
• Manages all fiscal and cash controls, including student activity accounts
• Performs other related duties as assigned for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit
• Develops and implements process improvements that promote compliance and efficiencies
• Responsible for mentorship of several Finance Office staff
• Responsible for Month End and Year End Close
• Financial lead for assigned cost centers
• Other duties and projects as assigned by the CFOO or Designee

• Conduct internal audits to ensure maximum efficiencies and compliance with state and federal regulations in order to minimize risk exposure
• Ensures the integrity of financial data
• Create and assist in creating policies and practices that safeguard district assets
• Responsible for all auditing, compliance, and reporting
• Serves as main point of contact for all external audits
• Responsible for ensuring the reconciliation of all fund balances on a monthly basis between the school and city accounting systems
• Evaluate and analyze current data to identify areas of inefficiency and develop recommendations to maximize efficiency within the…