Assistant Controller

Title: Assistant Controller

Position Type: Professional Tech Full time

College: Lamar Community College

Division: Finance and Administration

Department: LCC Business Office

Campus: Lamar Main Campus

Location: Lamar

Salary Range: $60,000 - $65,000

At Lamar Community College, you'll find the rare opportunity to build a meaningful career while enjoying the benefits of rural Colorado living. Trade traffic for open roads, crowded neighborhoods for friendly faces, and long commutes for more time doing what you love.

Our campus is at the center of a vibrant and supportive community where employees have the chance to make a visible impact, build genuine relationships, and help shape the future of students and the region. From community festivals and local sporting events to outdoor adventures, stunning prairie sunsets, and some of the best stargazing in Colorado, Lamar offers a lifestyle that is both rewarding and refreshing.

If you're looking for a career where your work matters, your voice is valued, and your community knows your name, Lamar Community College may be exactly the place you've been searching for.

The Assistant Controller oversees all payroll functions for the college and works closely with HR in order to ensure timely and accurate payments are made through campus payroll processes. The Assistant Controller assists the Controller with fiscal oversight, monitoring, and reporting, assuring adherence to GAAP. The position also serves as the Accountant for the Lamar Community College Foundation.

Payroll Management

Oversees all payroll functions and provides leadership to the payroll team, working closely with Human Resources, the LCC Business Office, and CCCS to ensure accurate and timely payments to employees.

Reviews and reconciles all scheduled (monthly and biweekly) and ad hoc (CHOPS) payrolls.

Audits salary increases, position changes, and other employment actions in Banner to ensure accuracy before payroll processing and works with HR to ensure Banner is updated/corrected as necessary.

Processes redistributions in Banner related to changes or corrections in employee’s funding source and works with HR to ensure that necessary updates/corrections are reflected in the employee’s job record in Banner.

Reviews feeds from benefit enrollment platform to ensure that they are accurately transferred into Banner, working with HR to ensure Banner is updated/corrected as necessary.

Prepares all payroll-related journal entries.

Provides training and support to payroll processing staff and serves as backup for processing monthly and bi-weekly payrolls as needed.

Audits Banner to ensure that employee status changes, leave accruals, and with holdings, such as taxes, deductions for benefits, charitable contributions, retirement contributions, etc., are accurately entered into Banner (HRIS System) and works with HR to ensure Banner is updated/corrected as necessary.

Monitors compensated absence accruals and works with LCC HR and the System Controller’s office to ensure that accruals are accurate.

Stays up-to-date with changes in payroll laws, regulations, best practices, and information provided by the System Office about policy and procedural changes that could impact LCC internal processes and makes necessary adjustments.

Ensures proper internal controls are in place and monitors for adherence, updating internal controls as necessary.

Fiscal Support

Assists with day-to-day financial analysis, reporting, and reconciliation, and provides oversight and guidance to the Business Office in the Controller’s absence.

Acts as a backup for the Controller and helps oversee financial accounting for the college.

Assists in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc…