Controller (WMS3)

Benefits, Questions, Description

• Collaborate with the Chief Financial Officer on the management of all agency revenues and expenditures.
• Use independent judgment and a firm understanding of law, regulation, professional accounting standards, and the operating environment to formulate agency financial policies.
• Develop and implement fiscal policy and procedures to assure effective and efficient management and accounting for agency revenues of $6.8 billion biennially to include expenditures and purchases.
• Develop the agency's accounting policy to ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Coach, mentor, and develop program leadership and management skills within the Accounting Services Unit.

• Six (6) years of experience as an accounting manager or other equivalent accounting experience.
• 30 quarter hours (20 semesters) of accounting credits.
• Experience must include five (5) years of experience of the following: Supervising entry level, paraprofessional, professional fiscal staff to include leading, developing, and leveraging managers and staff.
• Managing a program/unit budget to include monitoring budgets, tracking expenditures, making recommendations for staffing and equipment for the purpose of accounting unit budget development.
• Using of Microsoft products including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams to create written documents, charts, graphs, presentation documents and communicate with expert level proficiency.
• Analyzing, interpreting, and explaining or applying complex or technical accounting information regarding rules, rights, regulations, policies, procedures, programs, or services to answer questions, resolve problems, and make or communicate decisions.
• Professionally communicating with teams and customers both verbally and in writing.
• Ability and willingness to model cultural competency by employing knowledge of the morals and beliefs of other cultures.
• Ability and willingness to partner and collaborate at an upper management level.
• Collaborate in the creation and implementation of holistic, creative, and strategic ideas.
• Build and maintain internal and external customer satisfaction with the products and services offered by the organization.
• Adapt easily to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities.
• Adapt approach, goals, and methods to achieve successful solutions and results in dynamic situations.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing to a diverse audience including executives, management, professional/technical, and front-line staff, OFM and other state agencies.
• Understand and cultivate stakeholder relationships.
• Make independent decisions.
• Understand customer needs and help ensure customer satisfaction.
• Convey clear, timely, persuasive messages that positively influence the thoughts and actions of others.
• Develop innovative ideas that provide solutions to all types of workplace challenges.
• Well-developed accounting, written and verbal communication skills, with experience coaching and developing others in the same.
• Experience and commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

• Health insurance
• 401k matching
• Flight privileges
• Paid leave
• Staff training
• Deferred Compensation Program
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness
• Holidays
• Sick Leave
• Vacation (Annual Leave)
• Bereavement Leave
• Leave Sharing
• Parental Leave
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Leave Without Pay

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