DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
CLASSIFICATION REPORTS TO
Exempt Parish President
JOB SUMMARY
Under direction, performs complex professional accounting duties, supervises clerical, accounting and professional staff involved in accounting and fiscal record keeping work; and performs related duties as required. This is a senior level position requiring a minimum of five years of accounting experience, preferably with auditing experience in a governmental related capacity. Position also requires a minimum of two years of supervisory experience.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
1. Prepares or verifies a variety of complex accounting, statistical, and narrative financial statements or reports requiring extensive analysis and interpretation of data.
2. Establishes and maintains new departmental accounting systems and procedures; makes recommendations on the implementation of departmental accounting system revisions to increase efficiency and effectiveness; establishes and maintains effective accounting controls.
3. Participates in the preparation, evaluation, justification, and maintenance of budgets and budgetary controls; confers and cooperates with staff.
4. Prepares, reviews, and monitors grants, contracts, claims and other fiscal agreements and proposals.
5. Prepares financial statements, balance sheets, revenue and expense reports, and cash flow analyses for various funds and major programs.
6. Trains, supervises, and evaluates clerical and accounting staff; may supervise professional staff.
7. Recommends rates and fees based on accounting analysis.
8. Reviews and analyzes proposed and new regulations and legislation impacting revenues; prepares recommendations regarding alternatives available to minimize financial impact.
*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Ability to plan, initiate and complete work assignments with a minimum of direction.
2. Understand and apply legal requirements and administrative policies to departmental accounting functions.
3. Interpret and analyze complex data and draw logical conclusions; detect possible weaknesses of internal control of standard accounting procedures and recommend revisions.
4. Verbally communicate accounting procedures and policies to staff, council members and other parish agencies.
5. Ability to write memos and reports clearly and concisely.
6. Experience with Microsoft Office applications. Governmental program applications a plus – example Sage Abila.
7. Establish and maintain working relationships with others.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
1. Possession of a bachelorâs degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, and/or related field and five (5) or more years of accounting experience with auditing background or CPA with auditing experience.
Date Created / Revised: November 8, 2019
2. Commensurate experience in a governmental accounting and auditing principles and practices including budgeting, reporting, taxation and revenues.
3. Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, practices and procedures including cost accounting, application of computer software to governmental accounting operations.
4. Knowledge of principles and practices of governmental accounting; and principles and practices of supervisory training.
WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers/printers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
The physical demands of this job described here representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential job functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and occasionally lift up to 20 lbs.
OTHER DUTIES
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Date Created / Revised: November 8, 2019
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $60,000.00 /year
Work Location:
- One location
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid time off
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