Controller

• Oversight and management monthly closing activities to ensure timely and accurate preparation of financial reports.
• Financial accounting and reporting: Oversight of monthly closing activities to ensure timely and accurate preparation of financial reports.
• Reviewing journal batches, preparing correcting entries as needed.
• Reviewing recorded revenue, ensuring that revenues are consistently recorded in accordance with current promulgated revenue recognition rules.
• Review reconciliation of all real accounts and selected nominal accounts, directing follow up as necessary.
• Ensuring compliance with lease reporting requirements per the FASB.
• Supporting the Accounting Director in reviewing reconciliation between job cost ledger and general ledger directing corrections as necessary.
• Working in conjunctions with contract billings/, ensuring that revenues are consistently recorded in accordance with current promulgated revenue recognition rules.
• Risk Management: In collaboration with the Accounting Director, assists the CFO in documenting agency risk assessment.
• Government and Other Funding Sources: In collaboration with the Accounting Director, designs and maintainsprocess for monitoring project status at macro level.
• Meets with appropriate operations staff regarding project status, recommending corrective activities as needed.
• In conjunction with Accounting Manager – Contract Billings/Management, communicates with project managers on project status.
• Cash Management: Monitors daily transactions, ensuring all transactions cleared are in accordance with accounting records.
• Monitors cash balances to ensure sufficient cash balances to pay employees and vendors.
• Monitors activities of contract billings/management division to ensure billings are submitted regularly and timely.
• Contract Billing/Management: Reviews contract billings/management to ensure billings are submittedin accordance with terms and conditions.
• Monitors project status at least monthly, recommending corrective action as needed.
• In collaboration with the Accounting Director, works with the contracts department to ensure proper instruments (Vendor v. subrecipient) are assigned to project partners and compliance with procurement policy.
• Managing staff: Supervises the department staff.
• Ensures staff development.
• Sets goals and monitoring performance against those goals.
• Audit Activities: Ensures the accounting and finance department is in state of audit readiness at all times.
• Assigns audit related tasks per auditor information request.
• Reviews audit requests before submitting to auditors.
• Reviews Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (SEFA) for completeness and accuracy.
• Reviews audit schedules.
• Assists in preparation of 990 and related information returns.
• Prepares necessary audit schedules for annual independent audits.
• Ad hoc analysis as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting from an accredited college/university at minimum.
• Advanced knowledge of accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
• Extensive understanding of cost accounting principles and applications.
• 10+ years relevant accounting experience (Preferably nonprofit organizations), particularly with government contracts/grants accounting and compliance.
• 5+ years of supervisory experience.
• Experience or working knowledge of auditing processes.
• Proficiency in accounting ERP systems, financial reporting tools, and intermediate to advanced electronic spreadsheet skills.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of other general computer applications such as Microsoft Word and document management applications such as Adobe Acrobat Pro.
• Familiarity with the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance or 2 CFR 200 [Formerly OMB A-110, A-122 and A-133]), the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
• Strong interpersonal skills, with experience collaborating in a multidisciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly the ability to explain financial terms in simple language.
• Above average organizational and time management skills to manage multiple projects, set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Flexible work style with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Strong work ethic with a defined sense of urgency, ownership, and accountability for job duties.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving.
• Self-starter who can work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent management and supervisory skills.
• Strong analytical skills with strong attention to detail.

• Master’s degree or CPA, or CPA candidate, is desirable but not required.
• CPA firm experience is a plus.
• Above average understanding of auditing standards with hands-on auditing experience desired.
• Experience with Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) enabling the use of third-party applications such as Crystal Reports.

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