Manager - Financial Operations

Collier County strives to be an employer of choice, and many of our employees build long-term careers with us. The salary listed in the job description reflects the full pay range for this position, from entry level through advanced career stages.

NEW EMPLOYEES ARE HIRED AT, OR NEAR THE ENTRY POINT SHOWN, DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE.

• Manages and directs the financial and business operations of the Public Utilities Department, including budgeting, financial planning and analysis, accounting, procurement, contract administration, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and other assigned financial and administrative functions. Provides strategic financial leadership to support the Department's operating and capital programs, ensure fiscal accountability and compliance, optimize the use of financial resources, and support the delivery of reliable and sustainable public utility services.
  
  Oversees assigned staff and functions and provides financial and operational guidance to Department leadership in support of organizational goals and priorities.
• Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.
• Organize, prioritize and assign daily work activities; monitor status of work in progress and review completed work; confer with assigned staff, assist with complex situations/issues, provide technical expertise.
• Direct the assigned staff to ensure all financially related transactions are accurate and processed in a timely manner and are following financial guidelines relative to the Clerk's office and Budget Office requirements, divisional budgetary allowance, senior management, and all other Division directed policies.
• Lead operating, capital and revenue budget development with Directors, managers, project managers and analysts; includes creation and roll-out of analytical tools to provide a critical basis of information to facilitate budget development and provide framework for a coordinated Department submittal, roll up Division budgets into fund budgets and overall Department budget, analyze to identify trends and drivers, conduct budget review meetings that depict and explain the overall budget, trends, drivers and exceptions and obtain budget approval.
• Prepare Division budgets for operations support; monitor and manage expenses throughout fiscal year including periodic target and forecast analyses.
• Work cooperatively with the Clerk of Courts on the annual audit and preparation of the CAFR; provide analyses and explanations related to operating environment and variances.
• Promote operational and financial optimization by creating and rolling out analyst tools to provide a critical basis of information for annual operating financial targets and forecasts development periodically throughout the year and framework for a coordinated department response, roll up divisions by fund, and analyze to identify trends and drivers.
• Respond to inquiries and advise client divisions on such items as budgeting, forecasting, budget amendments, purchasing policy, research in SAP, Excel, pivot tables, etc.
• Perform complex financial and operational ad hoc analyses and advise to support business decisions.
• Serve as the financial liaison to the Office of Management & Budget and the Clerk of Courts Finance Staff ensuring that budgets are developed on time, that they adhere to the required formats and that invoices and bills are properly reviewed, analyzed and processed; answer all questions related to the Department's financial matters; provide information and data to the Clerk of Courts Finance Staff in association with Division audits.
• Develop, direct, and implement capital and operating budgets for assigned divisions; develop and adhere to schedules and deadlines and monitor progress of annual budget activities; review budget submissions and modify as necessary; ensure various income generating divisions balance fees with expenses; critique, oversee and manage allocations; prepare/delegate portions of annual budget consolidation process, including summarization of data for review; manage the proactive actions required to meet budgetary restrictions and required statutory reserve levels.
• Provide financial management and oversight to all business areas and Divisions within the assigned section; provide leadership and supervision to financial and operational staff in support of the Department's business activities; oversee general accounting, accounts payable, revenue management, purchasing, and other financial functions.
• Oversee all accounts payable transactions for assigned divisions; ensure all financial transactions with all responsible divisions are reconciled in a timely manner to SAP general ledgers and that all reports, especially external reports are accurate and agree with supporting evidential matter; authorize disbursements and review and approve payment vouchers and requisitions for…