Comptroller

COMPTROLLER Job Description

POSITION TITLE:

COMPTROLLER

DEPARTMENT: FINANCE

OBJECTIVE:
Administers financial policies and directives, finance and accounting systems and activities, and fiscal reporting systems for BBNA in accordance with generally accepted accounting and audit principles, with a strategic focus towards ensuring that BBNA is financially stable, fiscally sound, and able to meet BBNA’s mission, purpose, and values.

QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• A thorough knowledge of fund accounting, to include a sound understanding of overall accounting processes, financial statement preparation and related disclosures.

• P.L. 93-638 compacting and contracting experience

• Advanced Financial Management. Degree in business administration with a major in accounting or finance and four years supervisory experience. At discretion of BBNA, additional years of experience at an upper management level may substitute for college education.

• Professional level accounting experience includes the areas of general accounting, payroll operations, fixed assets and depreciation with increasing responsibility at an executive level.

• Adept with contemporary computer applications and software that is used on a daily basis including advanced excel; accounting software, preferably MIP Fund Accounting software or similar;
Confluence and Jira, and other current Microsoft products.

• Familiarity or experience specifically with complex non-profit fiscal systems, Tribal Governments, concepts and application of financial management systems.

• Knowledgeable of federal regulations, especially those covering Bureau of Indian Affairs.

• Demonstrated administrative skills and sound fiscal judgment.

• Ability to explain financial policies and procedures to staff and organizational leaders.

• Background clearance including fingerprints.

Preferred:

• Direct experience with Alaska Native non-profit organizations and rural service delivery.

• Familiarity with Bristol Bay area, people, and cultures.
Complete achievement of certain of the above specifications may not be required if, in the opinion of BBNA a particular candidate possesses significant offsetting characteristics, such as past accomplishments, experience, education, or estimate of future potential.

JOB RESULTS:
Achieves BBNA’s Long-Term Financial Goals by

• Ensuring that BBNA is financially stable, fiscally sound, and able to meet BBNA’s mission, purpose, and values.

• Working with Senior Management in efforts to diversify funding so BBNA is not overly reliant on a single funding source, can achieve greater access to unrestricted cash and maintain consistent cash flow.

• Collaborating with members of BBNA’s Senior Managers to keep a pulse on Department development and growth
Provide Fiscal Management by

• Serve as the primary point of contact for outside agencies for financial matters, financial regulations, including BBNA Financial Management Procedures and P.L. 93-638 and reporting requirements while maintaining relationships with banks and finance agencies; oversee all accounting functions (including payroll, accounts receivable/payable, purchasing, property management, and internal auditing); act as custodian of records for funding contracts and insurance; and ensure continuous commercial insurance coverage.

• Administering BBNA’s Compact funding systems including:
-Ensures the Annual Funding Agreement for the Compact is submitted timely to ensure cash flow for operations.
– Reconciles and certifies Tribal Allocations in the Reprogramming Request submitted to OSG.
– Formats the Funding Agreement into budgets for each Director and submits to the President / CEO.
– Attends the annual Compact Negotiation to verify tribes in and out of the Compact.
– Compact funds draw down in the ASAP system.
– Calculates the Contract Support Cost funding.
– Being prepared to explain Compacting issues and funding to the Board of Directors as directed by the President / CEO.

• Calculate and facilitate the tribal pass-through amounts (including JOM) and ensure tribes are in compliance to receive funds.
• Prepare Compact audit work papers, grant analysis, and cash receipt schedules for annual audit.
• Calculate…