Controller, Accounting, Accounting Manager

Description

ABOUT OUR CITY

The City of Sunrise is more than a workplace - it's a community built on our Three Pillars:
Customer Service, Collaboration, and Transparency. We're committed to creating an environment where innovation thrives, teamwork is celebrated, and every employee has the opportunity to grow and make a lasting impact.

As a full-service municipality and one of South Florida's premier cities, Sunrise offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, professional development opportunities, and a strong culture of recognition. Whether you're helping residents, shaping policy, or improving city operations, you'll be part of a team that's passionate about service excellence and community pride.

We take pride in being home to the back-to-back NHL Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers, a vibrant arts and entertainment district, and a diverse community that truly embodies what it means to Live, Work, and Play in Sunrise.

Looking ahead, the City is exploring an Alternative Work Schedule designed to further support employee work-life balance - providing eligible staff with two three-day weekends per month through an every-other-Friday-off model. This initiative is expected to roll out in the early part of 2026, reflecting our continued focus on flexibility and employee well-being.

NATURE OF WORK

This is advanced, professional accounting and supervisory work in the application of accounting principles and methods in the preparation, maintenance, analysis and control of computerized financial records and reports.

Employees in this class are responsible for preparing the annual financial reports for the City, supervising a staff of professional accountants and clerical employees engaged in accounting work for all accounting activities and managing financial computer systems. Emphasis on the work is on supervision of major fiscal operations including developing procedures and techniques necessary to carry out financial activities, enterprise fund accounting, bond accounting, accounting for revenues and disbursements, and preparation of complex financial reports.

Incumbents exercise considerable independent judgment and professional knowledge of accounting principles, theories and practices as well as knowledge of governmental accounting procedures. Supervision is exercised over professional and clerical personnel through review of records and reports for adherence to established accounting principles, practices and procedures. General supervision is received from an administrative or professional superior who reviews work for attainment of desired results, adherence to professional accounting standards and program effectiveness.

Completed work is also subject to periodic internal and external audit.

Examples of Duties

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

* Plans, assigns and reviews the work of subordinate professional and clerical employees in a computerized accounting operation engaged in recording and classifying accounting transactions.

* Maintaining and reconciling journals, ledgers and other fiscal records

* Preparing and analyzing periodic financial statements, reports, schedules and tabulations, budgetary calculations, and accounts payable.

* Facilitates the annual audit, including the preparation of the audit schedules, coordinating the preparation of the Annua Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and filing with the State's Department of Financial Services and other proper governing authorities.

* Assists internal auditor and external auditors in the examination of accounting activities and preparation of audit working papers.

* Implements corrective action as the result of audit findings to improve financial operations, statements and controls.

* Supervises or prepares a variety of complex financial statements requiring considerable knowledge of computerized accounting systems and departmental operations.

* Assists subordinates with difficult or unusual problems.

* Responsible for the maintenance (i.e. budget transfers, journal entries, etc.), review and interpretation of financial records.

* Ensuring accounting system is consistent with established and accepted municipal accounting principles and…