Treasurers & Controllers
Also called:
Chief School Finance Officer, Controller, Finance Director, Treasurer
What they do:
Direct financial activities, such as planning, procurement, and investments for all or part of an organization.
On the job, you would:
- Develop internal control policies, guidelines, and procedures for activities such as budget administration, cash and credit management, and accounting.
- Coordinate and direct the financial planning, budgeting, procurement, or investment activities of all or part of an organization.
- Maintain current knowledge of organizational policies and procedures, federal and state policies and directives, and current accounting standards.
Business
- accounting and economics
- management
Math and Science
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Arts and Humanities
Safety and Government
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Basic Skills
- thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
- reading work related information
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
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Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Math
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
Ideas and Logic
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
Visual Understanding
- quickly know what you are looking at
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People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Integrity
- Analytical Thinking
- Leadership
- Initiative
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
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You might use software like this on the job:
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics software
- Oracle PeopleSoft
Accounting software
- Automatic Data Processing EasyPay software
- Hyperion Enterprise
Data base user interface and query software
- Database software
- Microsoft Access
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master's degree or
bachelor's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$109,740
per year, on average
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