Job Summary
Work related to budgeting, forecasting, and analytical processes that support the organization''s financial health and business strategy.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The following duties and responsibilities are illustrative of the primary functions of this position and are not intended to be all inclusive.
- Prepare, review and edit budget vs. actual variance analysis and narrative assessment reports. Validate variance root causes, develop recommendations for course of action, and review and communicate impacts and results with upper management and cross functional stakeholders.
- Drive budget development and forecast projections with management team. Develop alternatives for most effective utilization of resources. Document and review team details and rationale for use in periodic variance reporting.
- Analyze, interpret and communicate complex data utilizing broad advanced accounting and finance conceptual knowledge.
- Data mine, compile, model and lead teams in analysis of data from various sources and systems (including ERP). Proactively identify and highlight business issue concerns and opportunities.
- Develop recommendations on business decisions based on broad knowledge of best practices and data supported financial analysis, and lead implementation of solutions.
- Participates and leads service area in capital improvement plan for core City infrastructure, coordination, validation, and assessment. Designs and actively seeks process improvements and cost-effective efficiencies.
- Oversee teams and manage financial ad hoc projects of complex nature, capital estimates, grant research and reporting, and process improvement initiatives with service area and organization-wide implications.
- Using wide experience and subject knowledge, helps to identify and explain complex issues of a financial nature, makes recommendations for resolution and works with operational and cross functional leadership to implement corrective and policy actions as needed.
- Performs and reviews standard financial and accounting work procedures while continuously looking for ways to improve processes and methods; implement improvements.
- Reconcile accounts, verify and ensure data integrity across service area.
- Establish and analyze performance metrics and measures. Identifies opportunities for improvements and recommends solutions.
- Review data entries, accounting journals, payments (AP), invoices (AR), and general bookkeeping per documented procedures, Recommends process improvements to department staff.
- Research accounting issues for compliance with reporting entities with extensive knowledge of local, state, and federal regulations, as applicable to accounting.
- Leads the capital asset accounting for all Utilities groups including proper classification of costs, proper tracking of costs in ERP through life of capital project, and periodic reconciliation for reporting to internal customers.
- Supports preparing financial materials for presentation to City Council.
- Provides consultation regarding accounting theory and internal controls to Utilities internal customers.
Management Responsibilities
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