Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The City of Tucson is a municipal government organization. The Finance Manager manages and forecasts citywide financial data, including budgets, financial statements, audits, grants, and related policies and processes, while supervising financial personnel. The Finance Manager - Accounts Payable variation manages Accounts Payable, Travel, Purchasing Card, and related Workday functions.
Responsibilities
- Manages and forecasts departmental financial and operational data including department budgets, financial statements and supporting documents in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Prepares financial statements and reports, in preparation for annual audits and financial reviews. Manages the preparation and reimbursement requests for federal, state and local grants. Participates in citywide annual audits. Reviews, reconciles, and analyzes department systems and necessary configuration to compile accurate financial statements
- Manages, coordinates, and determines priorities of workload, monitoring levels of resources, establishing timelines, assigning work, monitoring progress and recommending changes. Provides feedback, offers suggestions, reviews and edits reports prepared by staff and approves completed projects and reports. Formulates policies and procedures for assigned tasks. Collaborates with various stakeholders to support the City’s annual comprehensive financial reporting process
- Supervises financial staff, providing direction and guidance. Ensures timely and quality activities to respond to the needs of the city, community, department, and unit. Reviews and implements personnel actions, including employee hiring actions, training sessions, and evaluations. Reviews and approves employee timecards and time-off requests
- All other duties as assigned
- Manages the Accounts Payable, Travel and Pcard Teams daily activities to ensure City payments and reimbursements are completed timely and in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as well as City policies and procedures
- Manages the functionality and data within the City’s Enterprise Resource System (Workday) for the Supplier, Expenses (Travel) and Purchasing Card programs. This includes: Supervising the creation and updating of supplier information, Sales tax or Per Diem rate changes, managing and testing of Workday functionality, Overseeing the Pcard Program issuance of cards, etc
- Completes annual 1099 reporting for the City of Tucson
- Performing ad hoc reporting for internal City of Tucson customers as well as responding to Supplier and/or media inquiries
Skills
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in a related field
- Work Experience: Five (5) years of directly related experience
- Any combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis
- Experience in Accounting, Budget Management, Financial Management and Supervision Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business Administration
- Experience in governmental accounting and budgeting
- Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, preferably systems such as Workday
- Experience in Accounts Payable – Applicable to Finance Manager – Accounts Payable Division
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- FSA coverage
- Rich pension plan
- Optional Roth and pretax deferred compensation savings
- 38 paid days off in the first year of employment, with time off increasing steadily in subsequent years
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave
- Paid tuition reimbursement
- Student loan repayment
- Off-the-job and on-the-job training
- Opportunities to forge connections with peers and the community through employee resource groups
- Paid volunteer hours
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