Controller

Description

Summary: This position integrates and oversees the University's day-to-day financial operations, ensuring alignment with goals, accounting principles, and regulations. Highlights: 1. Directs various financial activities including General Accounting and Payroll 2. Ensures compliance with financial regulations and conducts annual audits 3. Develops processes, internal controls, and leads staff in financial functions This position is responsible for the integration of the day-to-day financial operations of the University. The position oversees various financial areas ensuring that all financial activities are in line with University goals and objectives, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles, and complying with government regulations and covenant obligations. REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES • Directs and administers the University’s assets through planning, organizing, and directing the activities of General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Grant Accounting, Student Receivables, Cash Management, and Payroll, providing management with accurate and timely information necessary to make strategic, investment and operating decisions. • Ensure optimum performance of the financial function and maintains the university’s cash management and budget functions. • Ensure the integrity of financial data produced, including adequate review of coding, student receivables, and all expense and financial position accounting. • Ensures compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal financial regulations, policies, and procedures. • Plan, coordinate, and conduct various annual audits including, financial, federal and state single audit, audit of retirement plan, and APU Foundation audit, ensuring smooth audit processes and timely completion of audit reports. • Develop understanding to ensure compliance with state and federal requirements and statutes, as well as with higher education, and changes to GAAP. • Schedule and review periodic and year-end financial entries. Oversees the preparation of financial statements and other reports. • Develop and review departmental processes, internal controls, and procedures for ongoing compliance. Ensure that established policies, rules, regulations and agreements are understood and followed and supports the university’s strategic planning efforts • Assist with and maintain annual budget preparation, training, monitoring and analysis. • Evaluate technical development and process improvements as tools toward meeting University strategic plan and goals. • Coordinate maintenance of software systems producing financial and student-related data. Develop and maintain internal controls and procedures to safeguard university assets and assist to correct system problems, ensure timely updates, and coordinate training needs for staff. • Interview, hire, plan, assign, direct work, reward and discipline employees, perform evaluations, address complaints and resolve problems. Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to assigned staff. Encourage individual employee growth and development. KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS • Knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and applications. • Knowledge of higher education accounting and compliance. • Knowledge of principles of grant management. • Knowledge of related federal, state, and local laws, codes and regulations • Knowledge of the principles and practices of cost accounting and strategic planning. • Knowledge of budget preparation and analysis techniques. • Skill in effectively managing and leading staff, and delegating tasks and authority. • Skill in analyzing financial issues and making logical recommendations based on findings. • Skill in assessing and prioritizing multiple tasks, projects and demands. • Skill in analyzing and evaluating accounting and internal control methods and financial reports. • Skill in establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with other employees. MINIMUM EDUCATION QUALIFICATION A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline. Progressively responsible work-related experience in a senior executive position, or completed coursework in accounting, finance or strategic planning may be considered as an alternative for a college diploma. PREFERRED EDUCATION QUALIFICATION A Master’s Degree in Business Administration. MINIMUM EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION Minimum of Five (5) years professional work experience in Accounting or Finance. An equivalent combination of relevant education and/or training may be substituted for experience. AND Experience in professional employee supervision in Finance or related field. PREFERRED EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION Experience working as a Controller. PREFERRED CERTIFICATION QUALIFICATION CPA and/or CMA are preferred. APPLY ONLINE: https://www.alaskapacific.edu/career/controller/