Finance Manager

Under general direction, manages, coordinates and performs day-to-day accounting functions for the Authority including auditing, analyzing and verifying financial transactions, preparing financial reports and statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and maintaining and improving the Authority’s accounting system; provides highly complex and responsible support to the Chief Financial Officer in areas of expertise; performs related duties as assigned.

Receives general direction from the Chief Financial Officer. Provides technical and functional direction to technical and/or administrative support staff on an as-needed project-by-project basis.

This is a management-level classification responsible for planning, organizing, and participating in day-to-day accounting activities for the Authority. Employees are responsible for performing specialized, complex work with significant accountability and decision-making, including recommending and implementing operational policies, procedures, priorities, and standards. Incumbents serve as a resource for organizational, managerial, and operational analyses and studies. Performance of the work requires the use of considerable independent judgment, initiative, and discretion within broad guidelines.

Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind work assignments for different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of their jobs.

• Manages and participates in all activities related to the Authority’s accounting function, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, processing and issuance of checks and cash receipts; ensures all revenue received is properly tracked and deposited.
• Work with contracted staff to reconcile revenues and process insurance claims related to agency-related accidents and incidents.
• Develops and standardizes procedures and methods to improve and continuously monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the accounting and finance function; identifies opportunities for improvement and makes recommendations to the Chief Financial Officer and General Manager.
• Maintains and reconciles a variety of ledgers, reports, and accounting records; prepares and posts all monthly and quarterly journal entries; examines accounting transactions to ensure accuracy; approves journal vouchers to post transactions to accounting records.
• Performs month-end, fiscal year-end, and calendar year-end accounting system processing.
• Prepares and analyzes a variety of complex financial reports, statements, and schedules; prepares new-year, mid-year, year-end, and special reports, including the State Controller reports and the Transit Operators Financial Transactions Report.
• Assists in yearly audit by providing supporting documentation when requested by auditors; conducts records research and organizes various files as needed to complete orderly internal and external audits; assists management with worksheets in relation to internal audits, as assigned, including internal controls, inventories, and contracts.
• Prepares, calculates, and analyzes various financial reports and data in the annual operating and Capital Improvement Program budgets.
• Participates in the development, revision, and maintenance of policy and procedure manuals governing fiscal matters; monitors financial procedures across the authority, including internal audits and checks and balances, to ensure that necessary corrective actions are taken.
• Assists in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and work standards for the department.
• Attends and participates in professional group meetings; stays abreast of new trends and innovations in the field of public agency finance and accounting; researches emerging products and enhancements and their applicability to Authority needs.
• Monitors legal, regulatory, legislative, technology, and court decisions that may affect the work of the department or the Authority’s funding requirements and obligations.
• Performs other…