Finance Manager

**JOB SUMMARY**

Manages, supervises, trains, administers, and evaluates financial operations and personnel, including accounts payable, payroll, and general ledger. Reviews and approves financial transactions to ensure adherence to policies and procedures. Perform financial analysis and forecasting. Assists in developing the annual financial report, budget, capital improvement plan, and other compliance reports. Designs and implements an accounting system to assemble, analyze, classify, record, and report financial data accurately and timely.

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**
- Reviews and approves transactions to financial records, including invoices, payroll, purchase orders, contracts, journal entries, grant billings, and capital assets.
- Reconciles general ledger accounts and subsidiary ledgers.
- Maintains the accounting system, which includes adding funds, account numbers, project numbers, budgets, system users, and transaction workflow rules.
- Ensures the safety and accountability of monies received and paid out, reports on receipts and expenditures.
- Reviews, approves, and processes payroll tax payments and quarterly tax filings.
- Makes debt service payments and submits debt compliance reports.
- Performs financial analysis, such as analyzing accounts, budget variances, and financial/cost impacts.
- Performs fiscal/managerial research, including financial reporting, statistical analysis, and responding to inquiries concerning sales tax, vendor issues, and policy/procedure questions.
- Performs financial forecasting, using statistical and comparative analysis and estimating methodologies.
- Assists in budgeting by expenditure monitoring, maintaining/preparing budget documents, and developing cost projection worksheets for fund revenue, staffing levels, and expenditure estimates.
- Ensures departmental budget documents are complete and meet reporting deadlines.
- Responds to budget inquiries and resolve budgetary issues.
- Assists in the final publication and distribution of adopted budget.
- Assists in the capital improvements planning process by providing technical assistance and recommendations to departments, and by developing a depreciation schedule for capital assets.
- Assists in risk management.
- Assists with special projects, cash management, policy development, sales tax monitoring and compliance.
- Maintains records of activities and submits reports as needed.
- Hires, directs, supervises, counsels, trains, develops, and evaluates division staff. Addresses employee concerns and issues, counsels and redirects staff as necessary, and completes appropriate evaluations for direct reports.
- Investigate and recommend corrective action(s) to resolve complaints.
- Performs all work duties and activities in accordance with department and/or Town policies and procedures.
- Works in a safe manner and reports unsafe activity and conditions. Follows Town-wide safety policy and practices and adheres to responsibilities concerning safety prevention, reporting, and monitoring as outlined in the Town’s Health and Safety Manual.

**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES**

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Supervising and evaluating the work of subordinate personnel through planning, organizing, prioritizing, assessing, motivating, and evaluating performance objectively.
- Maintaining confidentiality and exercising good judgment in handling sensitive information
- Interpreting and implementing authoritative pronouncements dealing with accounting and finance principles.
- Evaluating and analyzing complex financial data.
- Preparing statistical reports.
- Mathematical calculations and drawing logical conclusions.
- Performing complex assignments.
- Handling multiple projects simultaneously.
- Using good judgment in prioritizing work assignments.
- Observing, reviewing, and checking the work of other department staff members to ensure conformance to standards.
- Interpreting applicable Federal, state, and local laws, codes, ordinances, rules, and regulations.
- Maintaining records efficiently and accurately to prepare clear and concise reports.
- Planning, working, and thinking conceptually, observing, and evaluating trends, analyzing data, drawing logical conclusions, and making sound decisions and recommendations.
- Solving complex problems and making sound decisions.
- Communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, and other interested parties sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field.
- Five years’ experience in accounting, budgeting or a related