Financial Manager

Essential Duties: (These duties are a representative sample; position assignments may vary.)

• Supervises staff to include: prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; ensuring staff are trained; ensuring that employees follow policies and procedures; maintaining a healthy and safe working environment; and, making hiring, termination, and disciplinary recommendations.
• Manages the daily activities of an assigned operational unit, which includes planning, coordinating, administering, and evaluating programs, projects, processes, procedures, systems, and standards; ensures compliance with Federal, State, and Local laws, regulations, codes, and/or standards. Coordinates financial reporting requirements.
• Serves as a liaison with external agencies and other governmental entities.
• Provides advanced technical and administrative guidance to other divisions and departments.
• Participates in/on a variety of meetings, professional organizations, committees, and other related groups.
• Participates in budget development and maintenance efforts.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature or level
• Prepares the County's core financial statements, schedules, and note disclosures for the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and the annual external audit
• Produces the annual Budget Document and Budget in Brief
• Responsible for month-end financial reporting including variance analysis and budget to actual explanations
• Completes schedules for anual reporting requirements to internal and external agencies and ensures reports are delivered on time

Training and Experience (positions in this class require):

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a closely related field and four years of progressively responsible professional level accounting experience, supervisory experience preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.

Licensing Requirements (positions in this class require): Some positions require:

• Valid Driver's License in State of residency
• Certification as a Financial Officer II (preferred but not required)
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (preferred but not required)

Knowledge (position requirements at entry):

• Managerial principles
• Budgetary principles
• Applicable laws, rules, and regulations
• Automated financial systems
• Financial reporting requirements
• Governmental accounting procedures, practices, and guidelines
• Financial control practices and procedures
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Skills (position requirements at entry):

• Supervising and evaluating employees
• Prioritizing and assigning work
• Operating computers and applicable software
• Performing advanced mathematical calculations
• Giving presentations
• Applying laws, rules, and regulations
• Analyzing and developing financial information and procedures
• Analyzing and interpreting financial information
• Analyzing, verifying, reconciling, and reporting financial transactions
• Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction

Position Requirements

Positions in this class typically require: fingering, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions. Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met