Finance Manager

* City Application Required*

The Finance Manager is a key member of the City’s management team, playing a central role in safeguarding the City’s financial health and supporting sound fiscal decision-making across the organization. The Finance Manager oversees advanced financial, accounting, and budgetary functions and assists in guiding the City’s long-term fiscal strategy. Reporting to the Director of Finance, the position plans, coordinates, and supervises daily department operations while ensuring compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and applicable laws and policies.

The Finance Manager participates in and assumes responsibility for all departmental functions including financial audits, quarterly reports, G/L accounting, purchasing, payroll, A/P, A/R, fixed assets, bank reconciliation, and other municipal financial activities. This position also oversees and manages daily cash flow, transfers funds between bank accounts; processes wire transfers; meets with bank representatives and related parties; prepares audit schedules for external auditors, monitors and controls citywide expenditures, assess the City’s fiscal position;

ensures current and compliant financial procedures are maintained; prepares staff reports and makes presentations to City Council as needed. Under general direction from the Director of Finance this position may perform other related duties as necessary to ensure the successful performance of the City’s Finance/Treasury Services Department.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, combining financial expertise with strong leadership and communication skills. The successful candidate is comfortable navigating complex financial issues, interpreting regulations, ensuring compliance, and making sound, ethical decisions that support the City’s mission and long-term sustainability, while also establishing positive relationships with City staff, consultants, and the public. The ideal candidate should also have professional experience selecting, training, motivating and evaluating assigned personnel, and be able to effectively assist with the development and administration of departmental goals.

(The following are the minimal qualifications necessary for entry into the classification.)

Education/

Experience:

At least five (5) years of increasingly responsible professional financial experience in the public sector including two (2) years of supervisory experience. A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university, in finance, accounting, business, public administration or a closely related field is required.

License/Certificate: Possession of a valid Class C California driver’s license or the ability to get from point to point for meetings, events and trainings.

Benefits: The City provides competitive insurance plans for employees including paid family HMO health, dental and vision coverage, in addition to a $50,000 life insurance policy, cell phone stipend and longevity incentive opportunities. Also available at the employee’s expense are voluntary life, accident, critical illness, cancer/short-term disability insurance options and flexible spending accounts.

Leave Accruals: The City offers the option of a 9/80 or 4/10 alternative work schedule, twelve (12) paid holidays per year and generous leave accruals including:
Vacation, Administrative, Sick and Personal Leave.

Retirement: The City is a member of the San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association (SBCERA) which is reciprocal with CalPERS. The City’s retirement formula is 2% @ 55 with prior qualifying public service or effective January 1, 2013 the formula is 2.5% @ 67 for new participants.

Salary/Compensation: $129,875 - $157,851 per year