What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Financial Officer position at BeachFleischman?
Our team is growing!
We are seeking a proactive and self-motivated Chief Financial Officer to join our Accounting and Finance team.
BeachFleischman is Arizona's largest locally-owned public accounting firm and one of the Top 200 largest CPA firms in the United States. With offices in Tucson, Phoenix, and Nogales, Arizona, we provide accounting, assurance, tax, and advisory services to U.S. and foreign-based entrepreneurs, organizations, and businesses.
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
The Chief Financial Officer is a leadership and management position responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and monitoring all financial aspects of the firm. This position reports directly to the President.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
- Directly supervises, provides overall leadership and management for the activities of the Controller, Finance and Payroll Manager, and Finance and Payroll Coordinator.
- Oversees the collection, recording, processing and reporting of all financial transactions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, general ledger and fixed assets ensuring the integrity of the financial information.
- Serves as primary resource on accounting transactions, financial statements, forecasting, and capital and operating budgeting.
- Presents financial statements to Management Committee and BOD as requested.
- Monitors the fiscal position of the firm.
- Oversee the preparation of cash projections and manages cash flow to adequately fund operational needs.
- Identifies, analyzes, and evaluates strategic opportunities; promotes and facilitates firm, department, office and engagement management and profitability.
- Ensures adequate working capital and manages line of credit.
- Recommends, facilitates, drafts, and implements new work flow approaches, internal controls, policies / procedures, and strategic initiatives in the Internal Accounting Department based on observations, research, collaboration with staff and principals, economic factors, and firm culture.
- Monitors firm standards of performance including write-offs, write-downs, chargeable hours, collections, net realization, and other standards and statistics as may be defined.
- Responsible for the effective utilization of CCH time and billing system.
- Oversees the preparation and review of firm tax returns.
- Manages banking relationships.
- Provides financial analysis and peer comparison performance measurement.
- Provides profitability analysis.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Education and Experience Requirements
Physical Requirements
