Assistant Finance Director

Essential Job Functions

• Captures work for assigned staff, approves leave requests, and coordinates scheduling.
• Provides direct supervision over assigned staff, ensuring positive productivity and job satisfaction.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

  Minimum Qualifications

  • Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or a related field from an accredited higher education institution and six (6) years of experience in a government office in procurement or finance and two (2) years’ experience in supervising, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Licenses or Certifications: Possession of a valid Class "E" Florida Drivers License and compliance with vehicle use policy requirements, Section 8.15(c) in the City's Personnel Manual.

  Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Knowledge of all City functions and activities.
  • Knowledge of principles of planning and budgeting.
  • Knowledge of Financial Software Programs such as ADG.
  • Knowledge of procurement practices and techniques either public or private including purchasing, cost reductions, inventory control, and quality control.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, department heads, the general public, professionals, and representatives from other governmental agencies.
  • Ability to delegate and accept responsibility and authority.
  • Ability to manage and resolve conflict.
  • Ability to solve problems involving a high degree of complexity and consequence.
  • Ability to express ideas, concepts, and statistics in written form and letters, using proper punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
  • Ability to make complex mathematical computations.
  • Thorough knowledge of audit practices in the municipal financial field.
  • Knowledge of governmental accounting principles.
  • Ability to detect errors and to determine proper corrective measures to be taken.
  • Ability to lead, motivate, and to plan and direct the work of subordinate employees.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
  • Ability to use various software programs (i.e. Word, Excel, Access, etc.).

  Physical Demands

  • The work is light and requires the ability to exert up to 25 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.
  • Also requires the following physical abilities: manual dexterity, grasping, mental acuity, reaching, speaking, auditory acuity, visual acuity, driving, walking, and bending.

  Work Environment

  • The work is performed in an office environment.

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