Controller

**Position**:

- Controller**Location**:

- Metropolitan Office**Salary Range**:

- $100,000 - $120,000/year**Status**:

- Full-time/Exempt**PRIMARY PURPOSE**:
Ensure that the Association’s timely and accurate financial and compliances reporting is fulfilled. Information and compliancy is based on a strong internal accounting and management controls system. Reports directly to the Vice President of Finance and accounting..

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**:

- Manage all accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL, Grant
- Accounting and Revenue recognition
- Drive an efficient and effective Month end close process
- Providing Financial reports to the internal teams and external Board Committees
- Liaising with the auditors to ensure an unqualified audit report
- Administering the monthly rolling forecasts
- Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances
- Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting
- Research technical accounting issues for compliance
- Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.
- Assisting the team with coding questions and allocation advice
- Manage and comply with local, state, and Federal government reporting requirements and tax filings
- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Ensuring the accounting team work together effectively and efficiently
- Working day 10-month end close
- All reporting released to the organization and committees by working day 10
- Ensuring all budgets are completed for a first review by September
- Automating all the required reports. Internally and Externally

**Monthly Reconciliation**
- Ensuring all monthly reconciliation are done correctly and on time
- Ensuring all monthly recurring journal are completed correctly and on time
- Look at variances over month and investigate possible issues

**Reporting**
- Publish all the organizations reports on time
- Consider new technologies to automate and streamline the reporting function

**Payroll**
- Ensuring the payroll is processed on time
- Performing audits to ensure the payroll process and information is accurate

**Audit and Compliance**
- Ensuring we perform quarterly financial sample audits
- Ensuring we comply with all the audit requirements

**Budgeting and Planning**
- Ensure the new year budget is set up for all budget users
- Supporting the team in completing their individual budgets
- Consolidating all the budgets for review

**QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS**:
**Skills/Knowledge**:

- Thorough understanding of financial systems and operations needs.
- Ability to effectively interpret YMCA mission and goals.
- Ability to work effectively with staff groups and outside resources.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

**Education/Training**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required.

**Experience**:

- 4+ years experience as a full charge bookkeeper required.
- YMCA Senior Director or equivalent preferred.
- Working knowledge of financial systems and business operations.
- Valid driver’s license and clean traffic abstract.
- TB clearance required.