Chief Financial Officer - Clerk's Office

Established by the Indiana Constitution, the Marion County Clerk serves as the custodian of court records, issues marriage licenses, serves as fiscal agent for the courts, and performs financial responsibilities related to child-support payments. The Clerk's Office provides services through multiple locations, including continuous operations at the Community Justice Campus, and administers high-volume court revenue, trust, custodial, and pass-through financial activity.

The office is committed to accurate, secure, transparent, collaborative, and compliant public service for the residents of Indianapolis and Marion County.

The Chief Financial Officer is a member of the Clerk's executive leadership team and is responsible for the strategic direction, integrity, and regulatory compliance of the office's financial operations. The position directs budgeting, accounting, financial planning and analysis, payroll oversight, purchasing, contracts, banking, cash management, court revenue and trust accounting, child-support financial controls, audit response, and financial reporting. The CFO oversees the Clerk’s operating budget and provides financial oversight for the court revenue, trust, child-support, and other custodial or pass-through activity.

The incumbent establishes and monitors internal controls across multiple financial and court case-management systems, advises the Clerk and executive leadership regarding financial condition and risk, and ensures that work performed by employees and contracted service providers meets applicable legal, accounting, audit, and program requirements. The position works under limited supervision and exercises substantial independent judgment in a high-volume environment in which errors may create significant financial, operational, audit, legal, or public-trust consequences.

• Leads the Clerk’s budgeting, accounting, financial planning, payroll oversight, purchasing, contract administration, banking, cash-management, financial-reporting, and compliance functions.
• Develops, administers, monitors, and forecasts the annual operating budget, including revenue and expenditure projections, variance analysis, fund-balance projections, transfers, and fiscal adjustments.
• Provides executive oversight in the annual court revenue, trust, child-support, and other custodial or pass-through activity.
• Establishes and monitors internal controls governing collections, deposits, disbursements, electronic transfers, account access, segregation of duties, financial documentation, and reconciliation processes.
• Ensures accurate and timely reconciliation of bank accounts, general-ledger activity, court case-management systems, clearing accounts, and other financial systems; directs resolution of discrepancies and control deficiencies.
• Oversee the Clerk’s financial responsibilities within Indiana’s Title IV-D Child Support Program, including payment controls, system-access administration, time-study reporting, vendor compliance review, and adherence to applicable state and federal requirements.
• Directs financial reporting, statutory revenue distributions, year-end activities, unclaimed-property reporting, and other required submissions to courts, governmental agencies, auditors, and financial institutions.
• Leads preparation for and response to State Board of Accounts examinations, internal and external audits, and federal or state program reviews; develops and monitors corrective-action plans.
• Advises the Clerk and executive leadership regarding financial condition, resource allocation, emerging risks, proposed operational or policy changes, and long-term financial strategy.
• Directs and develops Finance and Accounting personnel and serves as the principal…