Chief Finance and Administrative Officer

The Chief Finance & Administrative Officer is a senior executive officer of the Port and serves as the Port’s principal financial, treasury, audit, budget, and administrative leader. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer and serving as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, the CF&AO provides enterprise-wide financial strategy, fiduciary oversight, statutory compliance, capital financing support, audit coordination, and administrative leadership for the Port.

The position is responsible for safeguarding public funds, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, supporting Commission decision-making, maintaining effective internal controls, managing financial and administrative risk, and aligning the Port’s financial resources with its operating, capital, economic development, and strategic priorities.

• Advises the CEO and Port Commission on financial strategy, long-term fiscal sustainability, capital planning, reserve policy, debt capacity, risk management, and statutory financial obligations.
• Develops and maintains financial frameworks that support operating performance, capital investment, grant matching, debt issuance, and long-term infrastructure renewal.
• Provides financial review and analysis for major business decisions, leases, acquisitions, dispositions, tenant improvements, capital projects, grants, and economic development initiatives.
• Ensures financial information presented to the CEO, SLT, Port Commission, auditors, bond counsel, financial advisors, lenders, and public stakeholders is accurate, timely, understandable, and defensible.

• Develop short- and long-range plans to guide the Port’s accounting, auditing, and financial programs consistent with the goals adopted by the Port Commission.
• Directs the accounting team in the maintenance of the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, fixed assets, and other accounting-related activities.
  
  Makes policy recommendations for accounting practices in all Port operating centers.
• Manage front office reception functions provided by one of the accounting clerks.
• Directs the Deputy Auditor/Deputy Treasurer for duties related to budget, budget-to-actual analysis, annual report, audit, investments, debt management, and special projects.
• Directs grant accounting and financial reporting.
• General administrative duties related to oversight of the finance and accounting team and systems to ensure accurate and timely reporting from the accounting systems
• Organizes and implements efficiencies and improved methods to reduce costs and increase revenues.
• Reviews, develops, and revises finance and accounting policies and procedures specific to the Accounting Department.
• Stays current with accounting standards, including Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) statements.
• Holds regular accounting and finance staff meetings to inform staff of developments or new information as well as facilitating team dynamics which encourage teamwork.
• Directs and manages the Human Resources Administrator

• Leads or supports the financial components of bond issuances, state loan programs, grant-match strategies, capital funding plans, debt-capacity analysis, disclosure review, and long-term debt service planning.
• Serves as the Port Treasurer and supervises the Deputy Treasurer. The Port Treasurer is the custodian of the Port’s money and administrator of the Port’s financial transactions.
• Forecasts cash flow to determine excess funds for investing and funds needed through external financing.
• Manages investment portfolio.
• Develops and implements investment strategy that maximizes returns while staying within strict Washington State statutes and Port policies.
• Presents quarterly…