Finance Manager

Finance Manager

This position manages and provides analysis, financial reporting, and budgeting processes to equip business leaders and senior management with the tools to make informed business and strategic decisions related to the current and future financial performance.

Essential Functions:

• Produces high-level financial analysis to provide recommendations on individual business opportunities and on longer term strategic alternatives.
• Produces comprehensive management reports, annual budgets, and long-term financial forecasts for the same.
• Serves as the System Administrator for County financial system. Responsible for ensuring financial software is functioning correctly; resolves any issues encountered with software in a timely manner so there is no down time with the software.
• Introduces new functionality as needed to improve processes; oversees implementation of new modules to ensure they will work for the County and work with other modules already in service.
• Prepares detailed and complex financial analyses to provide critical information necessary to assist Department staff and senior leadership in determining rate to assess departments for services, ensuring fund is healthy, and in identifying opportunities to improve financial performance.
• Ensures financial results and analysis of alternatives are thorough, accurate, timely, and presented in a concise and clear manner.
• Prepares financial reports.
• Develops and maintains current year and long term (5 year) financial forecasts. The current year forecast is continuously updated and reviewed to help identify risks that may impact the current and future cash needs.
• Plans and coordinates the budget process for supported Departments in compliance with rigorous standards for accuracy and thoroughness, subject to tight deadlines.
• Researches and recommends accounting practices in alignment with General Accepted Accounting Policies; related but not limited to Capitalization of Assets, Leases & Subscription Based IT Arrangements (SBITA).
• Functions as liaison with Auditor Accounting Division; regularly interacts with Auditors Accounting Division on accounting practices.
• Remains current on legislation, legal requirements, and ordinances affecting unit operations and interprets information to advise staff
• Composes general correspondence and reports; proofreads and edits documents.
• Enters, scans, updates, and maintains information in spreadsheets, databases, and reports.
• Maintains electronic filing, paper filing, and record systems to provide easy access to records and information; provides retention of records as required by Department and County policies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the County and Department's operating requirements, policies, procedures, and practices; and local, State, and Federal regulations related to department programs and operations.
• Principles, theories and concepts of accounting including Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) for all fund types.
• Organization-wide integration and coordination of strategic functions.
• Principles and practices of budgeting, fiscal management, grant writing, and project management principles and techniques.
• Policies and procedures of the County.
• Occupational hazards of the work and necessary safely precautions.
• Other computer software consistent for this position.
• Skill in preparing accounting transactions, financial statements and reports.
• Conducting thorough analytical work, including designing statistical analyses of budgetary information.
• Applying accounting principles to work activities in a municipal accounting system.
• Organizational and time management to prioritize duties to accomplish a high volume of work product while adapting to constant changes in priority.
• Analyzing complex administrative information and issues, defining problems and evaluating alternatives and recommending methods, procedures and techniques for resolution of issues.
• Researching and understanding complex written materials.
• Ability to research and analyze detailed information and make appropriate recommendations.
• Develop, interpret and implement regulations, policies, procedures, written instructions, general correspondence, and other department-specific documents.
• Establish and maintain accurate records of assigned activities and operations.
• Understand and effectively carry out verbal and written instructions.
• Perform detailed work accurately and independently in compliance with stringent time limits with minimal direction and supervision.
• Communicate clearly, concisely and effectively in English in both written and verbal form.
• Interpret and implement local policies and procedures; written instructions, general correspondence; Federal, State, and local regulations.
• Maintain professionalism at all times.
• Maintain effective working relationships with individuals within and outside the organization.
• Maintain confidentiality and discretion regarding business-related files, reports and conversations, within the provisions of the Public Records Act and other applicable State and Federal statutes and regulations.
• Work the allocated hours of the position and responds after hours if needed.

Physical and Work Environment:

• This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 25 pounds of force; work regularly requires sitting, frequently requires standing, speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and repetitive motions and occasionally requires walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling and reaching with hands and arms.
• Work has standard vision requirements.
• Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
• Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels.
• Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data and observing general surroundings and activities.
• Work has no exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
• Work is generally in a moderately noisy office setting (e.g. business office, light traffic).