Controllers Division Manager - Disbursement and General Accounting

About the role

The San Mateo County Controller's Office seeks a highly qualified candidate for the position of Controllers Division Manager - Disbursement and General Accounting. This role manages the General Accounting Division and oversees financial support functions, including accounting and financial services to County departments and agencies.

Responsibilities

• Manage and supervise professional staff in accounting and financial services.
• Prepare and review financial analysis, schedules, and reports, such as the County Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR), Annual Financial Report for the San Mateo County Joint Powers Financing Authority (JPFA), and other required financial reports.
• Administer and interpret county administrative policies and procedures.
• Develop and implement division goals, objectives, and priorities.
• Review and assess changes in governmental accounting standards and generally accepted accounting principles, and develop procedures for implementation.
• Coordinate year-end closing activities with controller’s staff, county departments and agencies.
• Provide excellent customer service to departments, including managing relationships with external and internal vendors/customers.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Business or Public Administration or a related field.
• Experience: Three years of increasingly responsible experience performing a wide variety of administrative, financial, or managerial duties in a large, complex public agency, including at least one year of direct experience managing and/or supervising an accounting or auditing function related to the assigned division.
• Knowledge: Advanced principles and practices of accounting, research methods, and financial planning; basic principles and practices of County-wide operations and their administration and organization; advanced principles and practices of management and organizational effectiveness; principles of personnel training, supervision, and evaluation; relevant automated fiscal/financial information systems, applications, and terminologies; federal, state, and local laws and regulations applicable to assigned areas of responsibility as well as laws and regulations governing the financial operations of public agencies.
• Skills: Analyze and evaluate complex accounting, auditing, and/or financial problems, records, and reports; prepare clear and concise reports; communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; direct and participate in the analysis of a wide variety of highly complex accounting and operational problems and make effective operational and/or procedural recommendations; develop, administer, and interpret policies, guidelines, and procedures related to the assigned program area; perform complex mathematical and statistical calculations accurately; establish and maintain effective work relationships with those contacted in the performance of required duties.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Business or Public Administration or a related field.
• Experience: Three years of increasingly responsible experience performing a wide variety of administrative, financial, or managerial duties in a large, complex public agency, including at least one year of direct experience managing and/or supervising an accounting or auditing function related to the assigned division.

Skills/Ability

• Analyze and evaluate complex accounting, auditing, and/or financial problems, records, and reports.
• Prepare clear and concise reports.
• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Direct and participate in the analysis of a wide variety of highly complex accounting and operational problems and make effective operational and/or procedural recommendations.
• Develop, administer, and interpret policies, guidelines, and procedures related to the assigned program area.
• Perform complex mathematical and statistical calculations accurately.
• Establish and maintain effective work relationships with those contacted in the performance of required duties.

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