FINANCE DIRECTOR

Description

Finance Director

Definition: Under general direction of City Council and in coordination with City Manager, provides executive leadership and supervision to a coordinated program of fiscal management including a managed budget that allows the administration to carry out the City Council’s policies.

Essential Functions: (Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following tasks, knowledges, skills, and other characteristics. This list of tasks is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by positions in this class.)

TASKS:

Plans and directs activities relating to fiscal management programs, including assignment, scheduling, supervision, and monitoring of the Department. Maintains clarity of purpose and communications with staff; ensures appropriate distribution and accountability for decision making and the authority to act. Assists in the preparation of and monitors the budget. Monitors expenditures and revenues consistent with budget requirements. Oversees purchasing of equipment and supplies, inventory control and accounting procedures. Responsible for seeking alternative revenue sources. Attends staff, Council and other meetings as required.

Responsible for the City’s budget in accordance with State Tax Department rules and regulations. Analyzes the disbursement activities to provide adequate cash controls for all funds. Manages City financial assets. Meets with financial staff to discuss need or requirements relating to changes in financial management processes related to enterprise funds (water and sewer) and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), and other federal programs. Attending meetings to participate and learn from various organizations at the state and local levels.

Directs the preparation of quarterly, annual, special, and compliance reports to provide to various federal, state, and local regulatory and bond agencies. Aids with completion of the annual audit in the form of assigning various duties to personnel to accommodate the requests of auditors. Provides timely reports to the administration and City Council. Manges computer systems to provide operation departments reports necessary for their areas. Serves as a member of the management team. Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Other Characteristics:

• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles as they apply to public jurisdictions.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of budgeting.
• Knowledge of the various financial reporting requirements of federal, state, and local governments.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all levels of the organizations including elected and appointed officials, City employees, and the public.
• Skills in developing, defending, and administering budgets.
• Skill in analyzing complex financial information and drawing conclusions.
• Skill in planning, organizing, and directing the activities of a fiscal management function.
• Knowledge of the principles and techniques of management, supervision, budgeting, forecasting, and program evaluation.
• Skill in acquiring new revenue sources.
• Skill in identifying, listening skills, and communicating effectively with diverse members of the public having variation in education, socioeconomic status, and values.
• Skill in converting abstract ideas to easily understood procedural guidance.
• Skill in analyzing and evaluating information accurately, and in expressing ideas clearly, when skill in analyzing problems, identifying realistic, feasible solutions, projecting consequences of proposed actions, and contributing to a consensus which can be implemented.
• Skill in modeling professional, creative problem-solving behaviors, and attitudes for subordinate staff.
• Skill in organizing and prioritizing workload and managing multiple projects at the same time.
• Skill in application of communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with co-workers, subordinates, supervisors, and the public, sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
• Skill in planning, organizing, and directing, through subordinate staff, the efficient and effective delivery of services.

Materials and Equipment:

West Virginia State Code Wheeling City Charter Wheeling City Code

Computer Wheeling City Budget City Policy Documents

Standard Office Equipment Financial Mainframe Computer

Mental and Physical Abilities: Mental work efforts involves long periods of close attention to detail while working on complex financial and budgetary documents, extensive interpretation and application of federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations requiring independent decisions and assuming managerial responsibility which could have considerable impact on the City’s financial status. Ability to interact with individuals and groups who may have different viewpoints. Physical requirements require extended periods of computer entry of financial data, the ability to sit for long periods of time while conducting administrative work and the ability to move light (0-25lbs) materials short distances.

Working Conditions: Work involves a normal office setting.

Qualifications

Qualifications: A bachelor’s degree in accounting with at least five (5) years’ experience in a progressively responsible position. An equivalent combination of experience and training which indicates possession of knowledge, skills, and other characteristics may be substituted for the above qualifications. A master’s degree and CPA preferred.

FLSA Status: Exempt