Finance Director

Company Overview

Tri County Health Department has been serving the Uintah, Duchesne, and Daggett counties since 1978. Our motto, "Serving for Health," represents our desire to serve our communities in a way that provides a healthy foundation on which communities and individuals can thrive physically, socially, and economically. We do this by exemplifying our core values:
Accountability, Integrity, Excellence, Innovation, and Professionalism. We are located in the Northeast corner of Utah with offices in Roosevelt and Vernal. We are a rural area encompassed by the Uinta and Bookcliff Mountains. The local economy consists primarily of oil and gas extraction, mining, agriculture, and tourism. A few minutes drive in any direction and you will find yourself in an outdoor recreation paradise consisting of several reservoirs, trails (hiking, biking, and ATV), and beautiful scenery.

We are, also, the home of the Dinosaur National Monument and Flaming Gorge Recreation Area. If you love the outdoors and small communities, this is the place for you.

Under the direction of the Health Officer, the Finance Director manages and oversees all accounting and fiscal operations of the Tri County Health Department. This position is responsible for the development, implementation, and monitoring of financial policies, procedures, and systems to ensure the effective stewardship of public funds. The Finance Director provides leadership in budgeting, financial reporting, purchasing, and grant management, ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.

This role plays a critical part in supporting the department’s mission to promote and protect the health of residents in Daggett, Duchesne, and Uintah counties.

• Direct the development and implementation of internal policies, procedures, and processes for cash collection and accounts receivable
• Assure compliance with GAAP, GASB Principles, Tri County, and Utah State Fiscal Management statutes and policies
• Oversee all accounting aspects, including monitoring of cash collections, petty cash disbursements, general ledger accounts, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and capital asset management
• Develop processes and procedures to ensure the timely collection of revenue from counties, grants, contracts, fees for services, and client billings
• Responsible for all purchasing and accounts payable activities in accordance with Tri County Policies and Procedures, assuring proper authorization and prompt payment of all legal obligations
• Establish internal policies and procedures as needed
• Establish and conduct a financial auditing system for all internal program accounts to monitor appropriate use and collection of funds with approved budgetary limits
• Generate department-wide expenditure and revenue reports for managers to assist in program development, contract compliance, and accountability of funding usage
• Track and maintain the purchasing card system
• Responsible for financial management of State and Federal contracts
• Prepares annual budget, including making presentations of budget requests and related information to the Tri County Board of Health and other appropriate bodies
• Develop the annual fiscal report
• Responsible for the year-to-date financial report to the Tri-County Board of Health at all regularly scheduled board meetings
• Review and approve employee time and attendance, work schedules, mileage, sick leave, vacation leave, leave without pay, travel, etc.
• Responsible for the submission of payroll data for all employees and making necessary payroll adjustments
• Responsible for the deposit and accounting of all revenue and the accounting policies and procedures for the department
• Perform all risk management duties and act as a liaison with UICP (Utah County Indemnity Pool)
• Develop a strong working relationship with vendors, staff and ommunity leaders
• Other tasks as assigned
• Travel may be required to any Tri-County Health Department location as needed
• Supervise clerking staff
• Oversee processing and monitoring of purchase orders and travel requests, and travel-related expenditures and reimbursements
• Ensure compliance with annual audit reporting requirements for government entities
• Establish and maintain Internal Control procedures to safeguard against fraud and abuse

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a closely related field.
• A minimum of two (2) years of professional accounting or financial management experience.
• Experience in governmental or non-profit accounting is preferred.