RGS Senior Advisor: Finance

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Would you enjoy working with a team of talented professionals who deliver top-notch finance services to a variety of local governments?

Are you a proactive professional in finance, budgeting, and accounting, and eager to collaborate?

Are you excited to work with a dynamic remote team that provides services to others both remote and onsite?

Are Full or Part-time FLEXIBLE hours your cup of tea?

Bring your expertise and passion for finance, budgeting, and accounting to Regional Government Services as the next Senior Advisor : Finance!

Regional Government Services :

RGS is a unique California public agency serving the consulting, administrative, and project management needs of local governments.

Our greatest asset is our team of expert Advisors who pride themselves on delivering outstanding services to support the mission of our partner agencies.

In order to provide this expertise, RGS has developed a highly flexible and adaptive team environment and work culture. We utilize technology to support a remote workforce of approximately 100 Advisors.

Our Advisors are trained and experienced public-sector professionals from a variety of relevant disciplines. We combine the strength of each Advisor’s unique experiences, perspectives, and skills through teaming, leveraging their combined talents to benefit our partner agencies.

As an employer, RGS offers Advisors competitive compensation, client projects that offer rewarding and challenging work, and extraordinary flexibility.

While client-interactive work must be done during core business hours, there is flexibility to do other work elements on a personalized schedule to maximize flexibility.

The Position

Under direction of the Director of Finance Services, the Senior Advisor provides comprehensive financial management services to solve a broad range of complex accounting and finance problem for local government partner agencies as a member of the Finance Services team.

Responsibilities include managing fiscal operations of a wide variety and types of public agencies; leading teams of RGS accounting professionals, performing or supervising complex professional, supervisorial, administrative, and technical accounting and finance functions necessary to maintain the accounting and financial records and systems for local governments;

advising public agency executives and elected officials; planning, organizing, and directing all financial operations.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL :

• Have strong leadership, analytical, and presentation skills.
• Have proven experience in evaluating, developing, and implementing local government and municipal financial and budgeting best practices.
• Engage City departments collaboratively to identify and strengthen fiscal processes.
• Analyze financial data and draw sound conclusions and offer improvements.
• Have experience thinking strategically to solve problems.
• Be a self-starter, flexible, reliable, and detail oriented with high standards for work product.
• Excel at working both within a team and independently.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Communicate complex technical issues and difficult realities knowledgeably and compassionately, in understandable language, to a range of audiences both verbally and in writing.

COMPETENCIES

• Adaptability and Flexibility : Responds effectively to multiple demands, ambiguity, shifting of priorities, emerging situations, and rapid change.
• Change Management : Leads team to achieve a positive and beneficial outcome.
• Creativity and Innovation : Encourages the team to generate new ideas and motivates others to be proactive and resourceful.
• Collaboration : Fosters team communication and dialogue, identifies opportunities to build consensus for team options, decisions, and outcomes.
• Customer Service : Implements activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction.
• Decision Making : Takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
• Initiative : Identifies and takes action to address problems and opportunities.
• Influence : Maintains an awareness of organizational goals and objectives while simultaneously navigating solutions towards desired outcomes.
• Leadership : Assists others in developing skills and knowledge by creating conditions that enable the team to perform at its best.
• Problem Solving : Finds solutions to difficult or complex issues.
• Results Orientation and Execution : Translates objectives into action plans, including identifying task interdependencies.
• Teamwork : Encourages cooperation, collaboration, and partnerships.

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Education and Experience :

Any combination equivalent to experience and education that could likely provide the required knowledge and abilities would be qualifying.

A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be :

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university, preferably with a major in accounting, business, or public administration, emphasis in accounting or finance is desirable.
• Five years of progressively responsible accounting or finance management experience at a Director or Department Head level in a public agency.
• Willing to consider experience that may not be within a public agency if it applies to the qualifications of this position.

Applications must be submitted on-line through this applicant tracking system. Materials must be complete and clearly indicate the candidate meets the minimum qualifications.

Incomplete, late, emailed, and faxed applications are not accepted. Resumes are not considered in lieu of the required employment application.

Certificates, resumes, and / or cover letters must be uploaded with your application through this applicant tracking system.

All statements made on the application, resume, and supplemental materials are subject to verification. False statements may be cause for immediate disqualification, removal from eligibility list, or discharge from employment.

The deadline to apply is September 27, 2024, at 11 : 59 PM PST.

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APPLICATION PROCESS AND SELECTION PROCEDURE :

Appraisal Process (Pass / Fail) After the closing deadline, applications will be screened in relation to the criteria indicated in this announcement.

This process may also include various interviews and / or a skills assessment exam to rank applications, and to prepare a Qualified Candidate List.

Application Minimum Qualification Assessment - (Pass / Fail) All completed applications and supplemental questionnaires will be reviewed and assessed for each applicant's ability to meet the minimum work experience, training, and education qualifications.

Remote Screen Interview Exam (Pass / Fail) Candidates who pass the application assessment will be invited to a Remote Screen Interview Examination to evaluate training, experience, and other job-related qualifications for the position.

The Remote Screen Interview will be conducted via a video conference platform and is tentatively scheduled to take place at the end of September 2024.

Successful qualified candidates will be submitted to RGS for further consideration.

All communication and notices will be sent via e-mail.

Additional inquiries about the position may be directed to David Prieto at [email protected].

Regional Government Services is not responsible for failure of internet forms or email in submitting your application. Candidates who may require special assistance in any phase of the application or selection process should advise RGS by emailing David Prieto at [email protected].

Regional Government Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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