JNANENDRA RAY

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DEDICATED SCHOOL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR

School Business Administrator • Assistant School Administrator • School Manager • School Lead

Budget Planning • Business Administration • Variance Analysis • Strategic Planning

Achieved Cost Savings • Increased Revenue • Reduced Costs • Improved Efficiency

WORK EXPERIENCE

Pride Academy Charter School, East Orange, NJ July 2009 - June 2021

School Business Administrator

●Major Accomplishments:

●Increased the student enrollment counts.

●Increased the fund balance to 3 million dollars by 2016-2017 school year and then maintained the ending fund balance by 1 million dollar each year until 2020-2021 school year.

●Facilitated the real estate capital project and arranged the loan from the bank to renovate the existing facility and add a new facility.

●Achieved clean financial audit for last 10 years on a row.

●Installed the time clock to track and monitor the daily attendance for teacher and staff.

●Installed a Bio metric system to ensure the tracking of daily meals count.

●Responsibilities:

●Implemented defined fiscal procedures for the acquisition of supplies and equipment for the district in accordance with the law and board fiscal policies.

●Completed student enrollment in concert with established policies and maintained student files.

●Executed free and reduced meal procedures in line with established policies and procedures.

●Created and maintained sophisticated financial models and analysis tools using Microsoft Excel and other available software packages.

●Prepared and developed general fund budget by line items with the school leader.

●Participated in strategic planning and decision-making with school leadership regarding expansion, management, and budget.

●Led Business Office operations staff to ensure high quality delivery of services to students.

●Ensured a clean financial audit and worked with the principal to monitor and manage contracts.

●Executed applications for new employees for pension, health, dental, and prescriptions.

●Processed bi-monthly payroll, payroll changes and reconciled voluntary payroll deductions.

●Oversaw and maintained compliance and adherence to defined Board policies and procedures.

●Maintained business office documents and ensured the school complied with various reporting requirements from federal and state agencies.

●Processed PO requests from school, assignment to fund accounts, ordering, and receipts.

●Reviewed and approved vendor invoices following Board approved fiscal policy and procedures.

●Performed Accounts Payable systems closing procedures at the end of the month.

●Analyzed vendor accounts and negotiated extended terms when necessary.

●Maintained vendor master reports to reflect accurate and updated information.

●Routed checks received to the Board Treasurer to make deposits to the bank daily.

●Coordinated all human resource activities in concert with board policy and procedures and applicable administrative and legislative code.

●Processed new employees' paperwork (updating forms, packets and other information new employees need regarding payroll and benefits).

●Recorded employee information such as personal data, compensation, benefits, tax data, attendance, performance reviews or evaluations, and termination date and reason.

●Designed and maintained human resources databases and maintained files.

●Administered employee benefits programs such as health, disability, and workers compensation.

●Prepared Board Resolutions and agendas each month for all Board meetings.

●Monitored and reviewed the lunch application process from determination to certification.

KIPP Freedom Academy Charter School, Camden, NJ June 2006 - June 2009

Director of Finance and Operations

●Trained new employees within 30 days of hire and trained existing employees every 2 years.

●Implemented defined fiscal procedures for the acquisition of supplies and equipment for the district in accordance with the law and board fiscal policies.

●Prepared voucher packages which identified claims, invoices and demands against the board, presented to the Board Secretary for review and audit.

●Managed operations staff to ensure high quality delivery of services to staff and students.

●Processed payroll, payroll changes and reconciled and paid voluntary payroll deductions.

●Oversaw and maintained compliance and adherence to defined Board policies and procedures.

●Maintained business office documents and ensured the school complied with various reporting requirements from federal and state agencies.

●Interfaced with the Finance Committee and complied with any information requests made.

Prior Experiences: University of Pennsylvania, Accountant/Financial Analyst;

Chester Charter School, Business Manager; AT&T, Manager

EDUCATION

Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ

Master of Business Administration, Finance

Utkal University, Orissa, India

Master of Arts, Economics

Bachelor of Arts, Economics

TECHNOLOGIES & AWARDS

Technologies: Intuit, BEN Financials, ProgramOne, Business Object, MS-Excel, MS-Word, WordPerfect, PeopleSoft, QuickBooks, Lotus 123, PowerPoint, Harvard Graphics, MS-Outlook, Windows 97, 98, 2000 & XP

Awards: Received Several Recognition Awards

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