Controller

Note: Unless otherwise stated, all vacancies with a specific closing date close at 9:00 PM Alaska time.

Job Summary: The Controller is deputy to the director of accounting services, and as such, performs a full range of complex accounting, technical, financial, supervisory, management, and administrative duties and provides overall planning, coordination, and accountability for large, complex projects, in compliance with laws, regulations, authoritative literature, and policies.

Annual Salary: Grade 8: $87,209.62 - $120,410.37 DOE
Work Day: 8 hours
Work Year: 12 months
Bargaining Unit: Non-Represented

Job Qualifications/Requirements (please review job description for qualifications and duties of the position):

The following are required:
1. Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
2. Minimum of five (5) years of recent professional accounting and/or financial auditing experience in positions of progressive responsibility and authority and at increasingly more complex levels of demonstrated proficiency and scope.
3. Two (2) years of supervisory experience.
4. Must have general ledger experience and internal and external financial reporting experience.
5. Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) relating to accounting, auditing, grants, and other compliance areas.
6. Must have an understanding of internal controls and ability to incorporate appropriately into the workplace.
7. Knowledge of governmental accounting standards.
8. Must have recent experience using electronic spreadsheets and word processing software.
9. Must be accurate and proficient at data entry/typing and be able to use a 10-key calculator accurately, preferably by touch.
10. Must have a verifiable background in large multi-user automated ERP systems.
11. Must have recent extensive and verifiable analytical experience and demonstrated ability to perform complex analyses using a sophisticated, integrated financial management system with knowledge and judgment of inter-relationships of financial data and other information.
12. Demonstrated supervisory, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills and the ability to plan, coordinate, and direct work of subordinate staff.
13. Ability and temperament to contemporaneously organize, prioritize, coordinate, oversee, manage, and perform multiple functions, projects, and tasks, whose priorities change frequently. Ability to perform these work activities accurately, efficiently, and timely with minimal direction, sometimes under stressful situations and short deadlines.
14. Ability to understand and interpret federal, state, and local laws and regulations; contracts and other legal documents; and other authoritative sources relevant to school district accounting, grants, payroll, and accounts payable.
15. Demonstrated integrity, leadership, and maturity and the ability to maintain confidentiality.
16. Ability to use independent judgment in applying guidelines to varied situations.
17. Must be able to communicate courteously, professionally, clearly, and concisely, both verbally and in writing.

This position offers an excellent benefit package including:

• Accrued sick and personal leave
• Paid holidays
• Medical, dental, vision, and audio
• Retirement (PERS)