Department: Accounting
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Essential Functions: The Financial Controller will provide ongoing leadership in financial management by offering guidance and training to management. Key duties include maintaining precise and timely financial reports, ensuring robust internal controls, managing and preparing the company budget, complying with all local, state, and federal regulations, and creating and upholding the companies internal standard operating procedures.
Responsibilities:
- Efficiently handle and communicate cash flow matters, including the management of receivables, payables, cash balances, control mechanisms, and timely deposits.
- Oversee the Capital planning process by assisting management with return on capital improvement calculations, supporting and monitoring the bid process, and ensuring proper property maintenance by evaluating the scope of work and specifications.
- Cultivate relationships with financial institutions.
- Ensure compliance with all contracts and legal agreements, execute all operational taxes correctly, and assist management in maintaining all licenses, permits, insurance, and regulatory contracts.
- Analyze financial data and operations to provide advice to management, aiding in achieving and maintaining the financial goals of the community association.
- Establish and continuously audit all internal financial controls, including purchasing, cash handling, disbursements, inventories, master keys, payroll, and employee records.
- Hire, train, supervise, and develop staff, including providing coaching, counseling, and discipline.
- Ensure compliance with the company’s standard operating procedures and safety guidelines.
- Directly prepare or oversee the preparation of all financial reports, including monthly financial statements and forecasting.
- Participate in and contribute to all periodic meetings and monthly financial reviews with all Departments.
- Maximize productivity efforts, identify problem areas, and assist in finding and implementing solutions.
- Clearly convey information and ideas, including complex or technical issues, both orally and in writing.
- Quickly and accurately evaluate and select among alternative courses of action.
- Perform effectively in stressful, high-pressure situations.
- Handle workplace problems effectively, including anticipating, preventing, identifying, and resolving issues as necessary.
- Assimilate complex information from various sources and adjust or modify it to meet specific needs.
- Listen, understand, act when required, and clarify concerns effectively.
- Understand and interpret financial information, internal accounting software data, and complex arithmetic functions.
- Prioritize departmental functions to meet deadlines.
- A four-year college degree with a concentration in Accounting/Finance.
- 7 plus years in a Controllership role.