Executive Director Finance

About the role

The Samish Indian Nation is looking for a Finance Executive Director to lead its accounting team and help keep the Nation's finances accurate, compliant, and well run. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you'll work closely with accounting staff and colleagues across the Nation to drive the month-end close, general ledger functions, account reconciliations, capital assets accounting, and interfund payables and receivables.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team: Supervise the accounting staff, delegate work thoughtfully, and give direct reports the mentoring and support they need to grow their careers within the Nation.
• Set clear expectations, encourage open communication, and foster a team-oriented environment
• Provide training on tribe-wide financial systems.
• Work with Human Resources and the CFO on hiring, personnel matters, and keeping job descriptions current.
• Keep the books in order: Own the month-end close and look for ways to make it more efficient.
• Analyze the general ledger, reconcile cash and general ledger accounts to subsidiary ledgers (or reviewing and approving the work of others), and prepare and approve the journal vouchers those reconciliations require.
• Maintain capital asset records, build systems to make sure interfund payables are recorded properly and their balances cleared, and help prepare for the annual financial statement and single audits.
• Keep the Nation in compliance with local, state, and federal reporting requirements and tax filings, grounded in sound accounting principles and strong internal controls.
• Help shape the Nation's direction: As part of the Senior Officer Team, offer guidance to Tribal government.
• Work with the Executive Director Team to make the most of available funding so every department and activity approved by the Samish Tribal Council stays on solid footing.
• Contribute to broader work such as policy changes, strategic planning, business process improvements, workplace culture, emergency management, community outreach, and security controls.
• Advise the Chief Executive Team: Carry out policies approved by the Tribal Council and recommend changes when appropriate.