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Performs complex professional and administrative work assisting the Chief Financial Officer in planning, organizing, and directing the financial management of the City, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the general direction of the Chief Financial Officer. Departmental supervision is exercised over a subset of the Divisions of the Financial Management Services Department and indirectly over all Divisions of the Department. Divisions within the Financial Management Services Department include Administration, Accounting and Financial Reporting, Payroll, Purchasing, Revenue, Risk Management, and Treasury.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function 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 the essential functions.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

Essential Functions

• Assists the Chief Financial Officer in planning, organizing, and directing the activities of the City’s Finance Department.
• Performs personnel functions (i.e., interviewing, evaluating, supervising, coaching, etc.) for the purpose of maintaining adequate staffing, enhancing productivity of personnel, and achieving City and Departmental objectives.
• Oversees the Accounting Division’s work on the annual audit and the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report.
• Oversees the implementation of accounting changes related to GASB pronouncements.
• Prepares and/or reviews and approves financial statements and reports.
• Coordinates the development and implementation of financial systems.
• Oversees the maintenance of financial and accounting systems for the City.
• Evaluates the City’s internal controls.
• Creates policies and procedures and reviews business processes for efficiency and control improvements.
• Assists with special projects and analysis.
• Makes and prepares projections.
• Participates in management of cash and investments and the debt issuance process.
• Participates in the oversight panel for City sponsored defined contribution retirement plans
• Supervises the preparation of other reports of the fiscal condition of the City.
• Directs activities relating to the City’s police pension in the absence of the CFO
• Assists with planning and organizing debt financing, projections, updating and reviewing bond documents & analysis.
• Assists CFO with economic development projects, capital financing projections, and other complex financial analysis.
• Coordinates or assists with budget development for Finance, Benefit Funds and Trust Funds.
• Presents information and responds to a variety of inquiries to/from City management and departments.
• Attends Council or Commission meetings in the absence of the CFO
• Acts as the Director in the absence of the Chief Financial Officer

TYPICAL QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Thorough knowledge of governmental accounting and budgeting principles, rules and regulations; thorough knowledge of accounting terminology, methods, procedures and equipment; thorough knowledge of principles and procedures of financial record keeping and reporting; knowledge of and ability to utilize software including word excel, and governmental financial software; ability to understand and follow oral and written directions; ability to evaluate complex financial systems and efficiently formulate and install accounting methods, procedures, forms and records; ability to post accounts and to perform mathematical computations with speed and accuracy; ability to understand and apply laws and established policies to the maintenance of financial records; ability to prepare complete and accurate financial reports from various accounting data; ability to plan, organize, and evaluate the work of employees in the specialized field of accounting; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, elected officials, attorneys, contractors, engineers, vendors, auditors and the general public.

Education and Experience

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a Bachelor's degree with coursework in accounting, finance, or directly related field, with a minimum of 24 hours in accounting coursework, supplemented by at least 6 years of experience that includes progressively responsible experience, including 4 years of supervisory or management experience and extensive experience with local government finance and accounting or equivalent combination of education and experience. Master’s degree preferred.

Physical Requirements

This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 10 pounds of force; work regularly requires sitting, speaking or hearing and using hands to finger, handle or feel and occasionally requires standing, walking, reaching with hands and arms, pushing or pulling and repetitive motions; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data and observing general surroundings and activities; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION / SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

CPA or NC Local Government Certified Finance Officer Preferred

Valid Driver’s License

Position requires an individual fidelity / faithful performance bond. Individual must be bondable.

RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS

This position falls under the residency policy that requires the person selected maintain their principal residence within a thirty-mile radius of the Winston-Salem City Hall or establish their principal residence within a thirty-mile radius of the Winston-Salem City Hall within 180 days of the effective date of the personnel action.