Job Description of a Church Bookkeeper
Job descriptions for church bookkeepers vary from one denomination to another, and also vary by congregation size. In larger churches, the bookkeeper might have only financial duties, while other churches might require a bookkeeper to perform administrative tasks.
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Bookkeeper for a Lutheran Church, Missori Synod
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The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, is the second-largest Lutheran church body in the United States, with more than 2.5 million members. As a service to its congregations, the synod provides a generic job description for a church bookkeeper that church leaders can modify to suit their needs. The synod describes the bookkeeper's purpose as providing appropriate and accurate accounting services and records for the church.
Duties
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The bookkeeper's main duties include maintaining records such as payroll, accounts payable and receivable, general ledger, bank accounts, monthly income statements and balance sheets, investment and other accounts, tax reporting, and individual contributor's records.
The bookkeeper makes weekly bank deposits, receives, records and acknowledges gifts given as memorials, prepares and mails giving statements to donors each quarter, and performs other duties as assigned. -
Reporting Status
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In this job description, the person to whom the bookkeeper reports and from whom she would receive additional instructions is not delineated.
Job Decription for a Bookkeeper for the Christian Layman Church
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The Christian Layman Church is a single church in Oakland, California. The church's job description for a bookkeeper includes duties besides financial endeavors.
The job description indicates that the bookkeeper is responsible for routine accounting services and procedures, and for making sure all financial policies adhere to those of the church.
Financial Duties
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The bookkeeper handles payroll for church employees, takes care of month-end closings and variance analysis, inputs data into the church database, analyzes all the church's accounts, including accounts receivable and creating and mailing invoices, maintains the general ledger, reconciles bank statements and makes journal entries, prepares financial statements and reports, takes care of year-end closing and any analysis required to complete that task, and prepares contribution letters and statements for donors.
Administrative Duties
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The position also involves administrative duties such as answering phones, typing, faxing, filing, and handling e-mail.
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