KIPP Colorado Public Schools

KIPP Colorado Public Schools

People & Finance Associate

Columbus, OH, United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 3 days ago
SpringAccountingExcelHREmployee RelationsHRISLeadershipCommunicationOrganizational SkillsInternal Audit

About the role

  • Higher-judgment employee relations, labor relations, accounting, financial planning, and approval responsibilities remain with the Director of Human Resources and the Finance leader.
  • The distinctive third dimension of the role is intelligence operations.
  • This is not a software engineering role.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare offer and employment documents from approved templates and maintain accurate team-member records in UKG Ready and related systems.
  • Manage routine team-member inquiries and the shared HR inbox, escalating policy, employee-relations, labor-relations, or other judgment-intensive matters to the Director of Human Resources.
  • Provide logistical and recordkeeping support for HR projects, trainings, investigations, and collective bargaining administration without independently advising on or deciding those matters.
  • Maintain organized vendor, purchasing, and accounting records and assist with reconciliations between invoices, purchase orders, account balances, and internal reports.
  • Gather, organize, and validate supporting documentation for month-end close, audits, grant reporting, and other recurring finance cycles.
  • Maintain the approved source files, data dictionaries, reference materials, and organizational context used by KIPP Columbus intelligence tools, following clear ownership and update schedules.
  • Perform recurring data-quality checks across People and Finance systems; identify missing, conflicting, stale, or unusual information and coordinate correction with the appropriate data owner.
  • Maintain a transparent update log documenting source changes, refresh dates, known limitations, and unresolved questions so users can understand what is current and trustworthy.
  • Test agent outputs against approved source data and expected answers using a defined set of recurring questions; document inaccuracies, gaps, and patterns for resolution.
  • Support the addition of new questions, metrics, definitions, and context as KIPP priorities evolve, ensuring changes are reviewed by the appropriate People, Finance, or organizational leader before release.

Nice to have

  • identify discrepancies and route exceptions for resolution.
  • monitor deadlines and follow up on missing requirements.
  • Support day-to-day purchasing and accounts-payable workflows, including reviewing requests for required documentation, preparing requisitions and purchase orders, and tracking items through completion.
  • Review invoices and expense submissions for completeness and alignment with approved purchasing procedures
  • route exceptions and approval questions to the Finance leader.
  • Respond to routine purchasing and payment-status questions from school and operations teams and provide clear guidance on established processes.
  • identify missing, conflicting, stale, or unusual information and coordinate correction with the appropriate data owner.
  • Test agent outputs against approved source data and expected answers using a defined set of recurring questions

Benefits

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  • Compensation and Benefits
  • KIPP Columbus offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit plan including medical and dental insurance, as well as group term life insurance, retirement plan and paid time off.
  • Coordinate defined portions of onboarding and offboarding, including document collection, system setup, required forms, benefits and payroll handoffs, transition communications, and completion tracking.
  • Process routine employee changes-including job, compensation, status, benefits, and separation updates-after required approvals are documented.
  • Support payroll readiness by validating time, attendance, leave, compensation, and change data; identify discrepancies and route exceptions for resolution.

Company info

  • Founded in 2008 with 50 students in 5th grade, KIPP Columbus currently serves nearly 2,000 students in grades Kindergarten through twelfth.
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