Controller, Finance & Banking, Accounting & Finance

Position:
Controller

Location:
Escondido, CA / Dallas, TX

Duration:
Full time

Must haves

• Bachelors in Business, Healthcare Administration, Accounting, Finance or similar required.

• Prior management experience preferred.

• Excellent knowledge of accounting software packages and spreadsheets.

• Must have Healthcare experience

Nice to have

• Excellent computer knowledge.

• Advanced Excel user.

Responsibilities

• Directs and participates in the development of accounting and internal control policies and systems.

• Coordinates and controls the facility's cash and investment management activities.

• Provides advice and assistance to department heads and managers in analyzing and interpreting financial data and reports and in presenting that information to their departments.

• Defines and communicates new/revised position responsibilities and/or reporting relationships and determines necessary staffing changes.

• Ensures that accurate information is provided on a timely basis and assists, as needed, in facilitating the efficient conduct of external audits, examinations and related financial projects.

• Ensures that a monthly time schedule is established for the processing of computer reports necessary for the preparation of monthly financial statements; implements corrective action as necessary to meet established deadlines.

• Consistently develops a detailed plan of action prior to implementation of a new procedure.

• Regularly examines alternative methods of providing required accounting services in order to reduce departmental operating costs.

• Promotes good staffing practices by maximizing the utilization of human resources; forecasts and anticipates the personnel needs of the department with regard to fluctuations in the projected workload; holds staffing at a functional minimum.

• Consistently demonstrates the ability to establish appropriate departmental priorities.

• Consistently completes all assignment in a timely manner, thorough and appropriately detailed.

• Demonstrates effectiveness in pulling together all the necessary information needed to compare revenue and expenses and determine the facility's actual financial position.

• Effectively maintains all required records for the department; demonstrates good organizational skills.

• Monitors the implementation of checks and balances which continually evaluate accounting practices, reporting procedures and record keeping.

• Other duties as assigned.