Job Description
About the position
- Responsibilities
- Encourage and facilitate superior customer service for all partner agencies.
- Provide strategic advice, reporting, and information to management, staff, and partner agencies.
- Support the Director in overseeing the activities of the Service Center, including accounts payable, billing, accounts receivable, financial reporting, and cash management.
- Incorporate continuous improvement strategies to promote process efficiency and effective internal controls.
- Hire, train, retain, develop, and mentor a dedicated team of clerical, technical, and professional staff.
- Exercise initiative and judgment interpreting and applying policies, laws, rules, and regulations.
- Plan, organize, and coordinate financial processes; manage workflow for and provide oversight to staff.
- Liaise with internal and external auditors.
- Ensure compliance with Maine Revised Statutes, State Accounting and Administrative Manual, GAAP, GASB, and other governmental regulations.
- Requirements
- Experience with complex financial and budgetary operations in a highly regulated environment.
- Supervisory experience and understanding of personnel management.
- Knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and standards, preferably governmental.
- Knowledge of budgeting theory, principles, practices, and techniques.
- Knowledge of cost accounting principles, practices, and methodologies.
- Knowledge of human resource management principles, practices, and techniques.
- Ability to interpret policies, laws, rules, and regulations.
- Ability to supervise and lead a staff of professional, technical, and clerical personnel.
- Nice-to-haves
- Professional certification such as CPA, CIA, CGFM or equivalent.
- Advanced degree such as an MBA in a related field.
- Benefits
- 13 paid holidays
- 12 days of sick leave
- 3+ weeks of vacation leave annually
- Health insurance coverage with 85%-95% of employee-only premiums paid by the State
- 100% of employee-only dental premiums paid by the State
- Retirement plan with 18.09% of employee's pay contributed by the State towards MainePERS
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