Deputy Chief Financial Officer

Salary Range

Salary Range: $148,767 - $223,150
This is an exempt position.
Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity.

About the role

The County is seeking an exceptional leader to serve as its next Deputy Chief Financial Officer (Deputy CFO). This is a strategic, high-impact role for a motivated, collaborative, and forward-thinking professional who thrives in a complex environment and can lead with confidence and limited direction.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and direction for both strategic and tactical financial activities.
• Partner with the CFO to develop and implement long-term financial strategies and best-practice initiatives.
• Deliver clear, timely, and transparent financial analysis across areas including taxation, debt, investments, cash flow, insurance, and budget forecasting.
• Lead efforts to improve processes, enhance service delivery, and support innovation across the Finance Department.
• Build dashboards and decision-support tools to drive data-driven leadership decisions.
• Ensure Finance operations meet internal and external service expectations.
• Strengthen collaboration across Finance and with County departments.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to simplify processes, highlight trends, and support strategic initiatives.
• Provide expertise, training, and guidance to improve financial literacy, internal controls, and understanding of key policies.
• Develop and maintain strong internal controls and ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and professional standards.
• Oversee Treasury functions, ensuring accurate and efficient transactions.
• Provide proactive guidance on the financial impact of regulatory or legislative changes.
• Ensure timely submission of all required tax returns, filings, and reporting.

Requirements

• Experience: Eight years of progressively responsible experience in public financial management, auditing or business management; two years of management experience leading complex projects and assessing organizational issues; three years of supervisory experience.
• Education: Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, Public Administration, or related field. Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted: Yes.

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of Business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Principles and processes for providing customer services.
• This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, and agency rules, and the political climate.
• Expertise in area of assignment.
• Superior verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Lead cross-organizational change management efforts, incorporating feedback from internal and external stakeholders.
• Foster an environment of creativity and innovation, focusing on the empowerment and support of staff through tools and continuous process improvement.
• Develop, coach, and mentor staff, providing constant feedback and clear direction.
• Promoting Collaboration: Unifying teams, setting common goals building trust and rewarding/encouraging collaborative behavior.
• Navigate and respond to multiple competing priorities, delivering quality outcomes under strict deadlines.
• Building Strategic Work Relationships: by Developing and using collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Alligning Performance for Success: Focusing and guiding others in accomplishing work objectives.
• Strategic Decision Making: Obtaining information and identifying key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision; committing to a course of action to accomplish a long-range goal or vision after developing alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints, and organizational values.
• Formal Presentations: Presenting ideas effectively to individuals or groups; delivering presentations suited to the characteristics and needs of the audience.
• Leading through Vision and Values: Keeping the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of associate decision making and action.
• Advanced proficiency in various computer application including Microsoft Office Suite.

Qualifications

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits

Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Pay

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Schedule

Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.