Assistant Controller
SALARY:
External Candidates: $129,637 - $131,582
Internal Candidates: $133,526 - $135,471 Based on Longevity
At Episcopal Community Services (ECS), employees work with participants who may be experiencing homelessness, behavioral health conditions, substance use challenges, and other difficult life circumstances. While this work is meaningful and mission-driven, it can at times be stressful, demanding, or unpredictable. Employees are expected to exercise sound judgment, remain aware of their surroundings, follow established safety, communication, and de-escalation procedures, participate in all required trainings, and promptly report incidents, threats, injuries, or unsafe conditions, in accordance with ECS policies and procedures.
Position Summary
The Assistant Controller, under the direction of the Senior Controller, assists in managing the Finance Department and its team. Working closely with the Senior Controller, this role will handle all aspects related to the documenting and auditing of internal controls, credit card management, and team supervision. The Assistant Controller will review ECS’s financial results with the Senior Controller and handle ad-hoc financial analysis and projects as needed.
Primary Duties
- Assist the Senior Controller with the preparation of the monthly financial statements.
- Assist the Senior Controller with the establishment and maintenance of internal controls.
- Research accounting issues for compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and research tax matters as assigned.
- Ensure general ledger accounts are analyzed and reconciled on a regular basis.
- Oversee the aging and transactions of selected balance sheet accounts as assigned.
- Prepare the invoicing of various agency-wide expenditures and the monitoring of these accounts.
- Work with Accounting personnel to reconcile the intercompany account balances on a monthly basis.
- Assist in the preparation of financial forecasts and projections.
- Partner with the Senior Controller in the preparation of documentation for annual external audits.
- Conduct periodic counts of the petty cash funds throughout the agency and resolve any issues.
- Review the preparation of the weekly bank deposit made by the Accounting Manager.
- Ensure the monthly government billing, related invoice postings, and payment receipts are recorded in the accounting system.
- Monitor monthly insurance and benefit payments.
- Perform ad hoc projects and other duties as assigned by the Senior Controller and CFO in a timely and complete manner.
- Support staff training and development.
- Collaborate with the Senior Controller to set departmental strategies and benchmarks.
- Provide back-up support for selected tasks typically performed by the Senior Controller and the Accounting Manager during their absence.
- Supervise capital expenditures schedule and monitor additions and disposals along with related depreciation.
- Oversee property and sales tax filings and reporting.
- Lead the unclaimed property reporting process.
- Prepare internal consolidated financial statements on a regular basis.
- Supervise, lead, and support the Accounting Manager.