Associate Director of Accounting​/Controller

For questions regarding this position, please contact:
Scott Williams, scott.williams
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Museum of the Rockies seeks an Associate Director of Finance / Controller. The Associate Director of Finance/Controller reports to the Director of Finance and is responsible for accurate accounting records, maintaining GAAP and other regulatory compliance, maintaining MSU policy compliance, timely financial statement reporting, and managing MOR annual financial audits. The Associate Director of Finance/Controller will be a professional, experienced accountant that manages daily operations of the accounting office and implements effective financial controls and processes.

This role will enforce accounting policy organization wide, educate departmental leaders for financial compliance, train accounting personnel, and produce monthly financial statements. The Associate Director of Finance/Controller must work both independently and collaboratively to ensure excellent customer service and highly effective financial reporting is available.

Classification

Title:

Managing Director;

Working Title:

Associate Director of Accounting/Controller.

Benefits:
Eligible for benefits. Salary: $68,000 - $78,000 annually, commensurate with experience, education and qualifications.

• Supports the Director of Finance to implement and execute effective and compliant accounting controls and processes organization wide to produce accurate and timely financial statements.
• Maintains quality control over the following areas:
  Accounts payable, general ledger, purchasing cards, debt service accounting, construction and fixed assets accounting and accounts receivable.
• Oversees day-to-day fiscal management activities by working closely with department managers and finance team staff.
• Establishes and maintains effective chart of accounts that support accurate and compliant fund accounting for effectively reporting for grant requirements and departmental or project decision makers.
• Reviews monthly expenses to ensure proper coding for expense categories as well as fund and project accounting treatment.
• Manages all cash accounts and MSU index reconciliations. Works closely with OSP to manage grant transactions, requirement compliance, and reporting. Also works closely with fiscal shared services to ensure accounts reconcile and budgets are followed.
• Manages payroll reconciliations including time and effort reporting, purchasing policy controls, and approving all accounting journal entries.
• Assists in the management of human resource functions for the organization by working with university HR to onboard, reappoint, and systematically maintain a diverse staff of professional, classified, and student employees. Maintains appropriate confidentiality safeguards of MOR’s financial and personnel records while providing excellent external and internal customer service for inquiries and requests.
• Works closely with the auditors to ensure that timely completion of the audit and 990. Completes and provides the audit work papers to the auditors. Answers all questions the auditors may have regarding the audit and 990.
• Be the subject matter expert for Blackbaud Financial Edge, Blackbaud Altru, and Xtrulink.
• Provides excellent external and internal customer service for inquiries and requests.
• Works with the Director of Finance and auditors to ensure timely completion of the audit.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or closely related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience, in a non-profit environment, maintaining GAAP, GASB, and other accounting standards while managing transactional accounting and complex financial data with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated experience managing an accounting team, implementing accounting controls in a large organization, and managing the entire financial audit process including adjusted trial balance preparation.
• Ability to incorporate other tools like MS Excel, to compile or analyze complex data for presentation and simple…