Controller

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepares the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report and the summary schedules with the assistance of staff.
• Celebrates the conduct of the annual independent audit of the City's financial records between the City's staff and the independent auditor and resolves auditors requisitions.
• Plans and executes preparation of the annual comprehensive financial report as required by Government Accounting Standards Board and bondholder covenants.
• Oversees and assists with the workloads of all accountants within the Finance Department, under direction of the Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer.
• Provides day-to-day supervision of the accounting clerks, including involvement in the hiring process, providing employee coaching and feedback, assigning of day-to-day and significant duties, input on disciplining and terminating employment; exercising independent judgment to direct others' work and having the authority to take corrective action; and, utilizing people skills to communicate, motivate and direct or oversee staff.
• Assists the Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer in the development of the City's budget, including building and maintaining the personnel budget database, compiling and analyzing financial data, creating reports for publication, and assisting in developing budget instructions and formats.
• Conducts detailed financial analysis of budgeted and actual citywide or departmental costs and revenues on behalf of city departments and/or other budget staff, including complex cash reconciliation for multi-fund/multibank accounts, creates interfund and transfer charges, creates budget worksheets (such as the budget digest) and financial information reports for the service level reports.
• Produces the salary projection report.
• Oversees all bookkeeping and any audits under the direction of the Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer.
• Assists departments with budget preparation, analysis, and composition.
• Analyzes user and operational needs and business requirements in order to develop or modify budgets.