Accounting Manager

Job Description

Description of Primary Responsibilities

Provides management to departmental staff. Responsible for performance management of assigned staff, including recognition, performance evaluations, and formal coaching and counseling, and making decisions or recommendations regarding necessary disciplinary actions.

Responsible for making recommendations regarding hiring or firing, and the advancement and promotion of assigned supervisors, and those supervisors' assigned staff, or any other change status of assigned supervisors, and those supervisors' assigned staff.

Demonstrates core leadership behaviors and team one approach. Creates a culture of accountability and excellence. Develops and manages an action plan across assigned employee base to support the strategic direction and obtainment of goals of the organization, effectively leading change when necessary.

Empowers staff through effective communication and talent building. Delegates appropriate departmental duties and responsibilities to assigned team members while ensuring department performance.

Assists with the development of the departmental budget and monitors budget to ensure expenses do not exceed budget. Ensures regulatory compliance for assigned departments, and compliance with all workflows, policies, and procedures.

Ensures employees receive instruction / training that is in compliance with training plan, including on the job training.

Works with supervisor to ensure necessary remediation is taken. Recommends workflow, policy, and procedure changes based on observations from performance metrics, outcomes, and feedback from supervisor.

Ensures department maintains compliance with all employee related reporting and tracking.

Responsible for managing the daily activities of the Accounting Department. Develops time-line for internal and external reporting requirements.

Ensures the general ledger is closed monthly and all monthly financial reports are prepared accurately and timely. Implements software features and / or process improvements to enhance the workflow and the reporting of the department.

Develops and documents processes and procedures for the general ledger accounting, accounts payable, grant accounting. Monitors internal controls around cash handling, inventory, accounts payable, payments, etc.

Prepares accurate and timely reporting as requested by management.

Oversees various internal analyses, reporting and special projects for the organization. Assigns and reviews various governmental and grant accounting reports.

Coordinates the completion of the annual financial audit and annual budgeting process.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Description of Primary Attributes

Professional & Technical Knowledge :

• Possesses specific advanced knowledge and skills, including written and verbal communication skills, computational, computer and technical skills, and mathematical knowledge frequently acquired through completion of a Bachelor’s Degree program with a recognized major or comparable experience, and;
• Four years of leadership experience or 5 years of progressively greater responsibility or significant contributions to projects and initiatives that demonstrate leadership skills.

Technical Skills :

• Ability to perform more complex documents in Microsoft Word, including creating tables, charts, graphs and other elements.
• Ability to use Microsoft Excel to analyze data, including the use of formulas, functions, lookup tables, and other standard spreadsheet elements.
• Ability to develop sophisticated presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, including the use of embedded objects, transitions, and other elements.

Licenses & Certifications : None required.

Communications Skills :

• Job duties require the employee to effectively communicate, verbally and in writing, their opinions and extrapolations of information they collect and synthesize / analyze.
• Responsible for the resolution of conflicts that may arise because of disagreements between employees, between employees and customers / clients, or with the public, other legal entities or governmental authorities.
• Compiles, analyzes and prepares information in an effective written form, including correspondence, reports, articles or other documentation.
• Effectively conveys technical information to non-technical audiences.

Physical Demands : The physical demands here in this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.

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

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit and use repetitive hand movement to type and grasp.

The employee is frequently required to stand or walk; and the employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 20 pounds.

Pay Scale :

Min Salary Rate : $91,.90

Max Salary Rate : $,.64