Financial Operations Manager

Incumbents perform professional accounting and finance duties to ensure data accuracy, effective accounting controls, and compliance with District policies and State statutes. - Supervises staff responsible for daily operational accounting activities, including prioritizing and assigning work, conducting performance evaluations, coordinating training, and managing hiring, disciplinary, and termination processes. - Manages assigned accounting or finance functions, to include those related to general ledger, internal and external audits, and related activities. - Prepares and/or maintains accurate general, financial, and statistical records, reports, work papers and schedules, letters, and other documentation; work may also involve working with and updating databases and online systems, researching and analyzing information, and making recommendations based on findings. - Assists with the annual audit by preparing, gathering, and clarifying requested documentation; responding to auditor inquiries; researching discrepancies; and initiating corrective actions to ensure compliance. - Manages daily financial processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency in accounts payable/receivable. - Maintains the Accounting department’s InfoEx internal webpage, including updating forms and related content. - Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to provide information, resolve complex issues, and support effective departmental operations. - Create, enhance, and maintain the procedures which include a complete range of policies, procedures, best practices, tools, forms, and job-aids to efficiently and effectively support project operations for all functions (finance, accounting). - Monitors and ensures compliance with financial policies, internal controls, and applicable regulations. - Manages the internal control environment by strategically integrating automated financial platforms and cloud-based expense technologies - Additional duties – Perform other duties of a similar nature or level as assigned. Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or related area - Three () to four (4) years of experience in accounting/finance support or related area Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with Banner (Ellucian) ERP - Experience in higher education accounting - Experience working in complex or matrixed organizations Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Knowledge of supervisory principles - Knowledge of general accounting and bookkeeping practices - Knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules and regulations - Knowledge of computers and related software applications - Knowledge of general ledger reporting techniques. - Knowledge of mathematical concepts - Knowledge of data review techniques - Knowledge of recordkeeping principles - Knowledge of customer service principles - Knowledge of automated accounting software packages - Knowledge of data entry techniques - Skilled in applying accounting principles and practices - Skilled in tabulating, recording, and balancing transactions - Skilled in compiling and verifying financial data - Skilled in preparing and maintaining financial and complex clerical records and reports - Skilled in providing customer service - Skilled in conducting mathematical calculations - Skilled in maintaining confidentiality - Skilled in operating a computer and related software applications - Skilled in utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interactions with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, and others sufficient to exchange or convey information. Physical Requirements Positions in this class typically require reaching, standing, walking, keyboarding, holding, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions. Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Se…