Controller
Apply NowCompany: Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
Location: Fairbanks, AK 99709
Description:
Position Type:
Administrative Services/Accounting
Date Posted:
2/7/2025
Location:
Administration Center-Accounting
Date Available:
ASAP
Closing Date:
02/17/2025Note: Unless otherwise stated, all vacancies with a specific closing date close at 9:00 PM Alaska time.
Job Summary: The Director of Accounting Services oversees the district's accounting operations, financial reporting, and grants compliance functions, ensuring the delivery of accurate and timely financial information. This role includes performing a wide range of complex accounting, technical, financial, supervisory, and administrative duties. The director provides strategic planning, coordination, and accountability for large-scale and complex projects, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, authoritative guidance, and district policies.
Annual Salary: Grade 8: $87,209.62 - $120,410.37 DOE
Work Day: 8 hours
Work Year: 12 months
Bargaining Unit: Non-Represented
Job Qualifications/Requirements (please review job description for qualifications and duties of the position):
The following are required:
1. Bachelor's degree in accounting.
2. Minimum of five (5) years of recent professional accounting and/or financial auditing experience in positions of progressive responsibility and authority and at increasingly more complex levels of demonstrated proficiency and scope.
3. Two (2) years of supervisory experience.
4. Must have general ledger experience and internal and external financial reporting experience.
5. Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) relating to accounting, auditing, grants, and other compliance areas.
6. Must have an understanding of internal controls and ability to incorporate appropriately into the workplace.
7. Knowledge of governmental accounting standards.
8. Must have recent experience using electronic spreadsheets and word processing software.
9. Must be accurate and proficient at data entry/typing and be able to use a 10-key calculator accurately, preferably by touch.
10. Must have a verifiable background in large multi-user automated ERP systems.
11. Must have recent extensive and verifiable analytical experience and demonstrated ability to perform complex analyses using a sophisticated, integrated financial management system with knowledge and judgment of inter-relationships of financial data and other information.
12. Demonstrated supervisory, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills and the ability to plan, coordinate, and direct work of subordinate staff.
13. Ability and temperament to contemporaneously organize, prioritize, coordinate, oversee, manage, and perform multiple functions, projects, and tasks, whose priorities change frequently. Ability to perform these work activities accurately, efficiently, and timely with minimal direction, sometimes under stressful situations and short deadlines.
14. Ability to understand and interpret federal, state, and local laws and regulations; contracts and other legal documents; and other authoritative sources relevant to school district accounting, grants, payroll, and accounts payable.
15. Demonstrated integrity, leadership, and maturity and the ability to maintain confidentiality.
16. Ability to use independent judgment in applying guidelines to varied situations.
17. Must be able to communicate courteously, professionally, clearly, and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
The following are preferred:
1. Certified Public Accountant certificate.
2. Experience in the following areas is preferred: governmental accounting, governmental purchasing, encumbrance accounting, grants accounting and compliance and single audits, management of a (governmental) accounting or finance office, payroll, capital assets, accounts payable, and cash reconciliations.
3. Cross training or experience in any of the following functions is desirable: information technology, financial auditing, governmental finance, electronic procurement and payment processing, human resources and labor contracts, banking services, accounts receivable, and cash handling.
4. Experience with recent versions of the Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, and Publisher) and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
5. Automated accounting system experience in a governmental or large-sized entity is desirable.
This position offers an excellent benefit package including:
If there are ways we can support you in becoming a district employee, please email recruiting@k12northstar.org.
Attachment(s):
Administrative Services/Accounting
Date Posted:
2/7/2025
Location:
Administration Center-Accounting
Date Available:
ASAP
Closing Date:
02/17/2025Note: Unless otherwise stated, all vacancies with a specific closing date close at 9:00 PM Alaska time.
Job Summary: The Director of Accounting Services oversees the district's accounting operations, financial reporting, and grants compliance functions, ensuring the delivery of accurate and timely financial information. This role includes performing a wide range of complex accounting, technical, financial, supervisory, and administrative duties. The director provides strategic planning, coordination, and accountability for large-scale and complex projects, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, authoritative guidance, and district policies.
Annual Salary: Grade 8: $87,209.62 - $120,410.37 DOE
Work Day: 8 hours
Work Year: 12 months
Bargaining Unit: Non-Represented
Job Qualifications/Requirements (please review job description for qualifications and duties of the position):
The following are required:
1. Bachelor's degree in accounting.
2. Minimum of five (5) years of recent professional accounting and/or financial auditing experience in positions of progressive responsibility and authority and at increasingly more complex levels of demonstrated proficiency and scope.
3. Two (2) years of supervisory experience.
4. Must have general ledger experience and internal and external financial reporting experience.
5. Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) relating to accounting, auditing, grants, and other compliance areas.
6. Must have an understanding of internal controls and ability to incorporate appropriately into the workplace.
7. Knowledge of governmental accounting standards.
8. Must have recent experience using electronic spreadsheets and word processing software.
9. Must be accurate and proficient at data entry/typing and be able to use a 10-key calculator accurately, preferably by touch.
10. Must have a verifiable background in large multi-user automated ERP systems.
11. Must have recent extensive and verifiable analytical experience and demonstrated ability to perform complex analyses using a sophisticated, integrated financial management system with knowledge and judgment of inter-relationships of financial data and other information.
12. Demonstrated supervisory, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills and the ability to plan, coordinate, and direct work of subordinate staff.
13. Ability and temperament to contemporaneously organize, prioritize, coordinate, oversee, manage, and perform multiple functions, projects, and tasks, whose priorities change frequently. Ability to perform these work activities accurately, efficiently, and timely with minimal direction, sometimes under stressful situations and short deadlines.
14. Ability to understand and interpret federal, state, and local laws and regulations; contracts and other legal documents; and other authoritative sources relevant to school district accounting, grants, payroll, and accounts payable.
15. Demonstrated integrity, leadership, and maturity and the ability to maintain confidentiality.
16. Ability to use independent judgment in applying guidelines to varied situations.
17. Must be able to communicate courteously, professionally, clearly, and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
The following are preferred:
1. Certified Public Accountant certificate.
2. Experience in the following areas is preferred: governmental accounting, governmental purchasing, encumbrance accounting, grants accounting and compliance and single audits, management of a (governmental) accounting or finance office, payroll, capital assets, accounts payable, and cash reconciliations.
3. Cross training or experience in any of the following functions is desirable: information technology, financial auditing, governmental finance, electronic procurement and payment processing, human resources and labor contracts, banking services, accounts receivable, and cash handling.
4. Experience with recent versions of the Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, and Publisher) and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
5. Automated accounting system experience in a governmental or large-sized entity is desirable.
This position offers an excellent benefit package including:
- Accrued sick and personal leave
- Paid holidays
- Medical, dental, vision, and audio
- Retirement (PERS)
If there are ways we can support you in becoming a district employee, please email recruiting@k12northstar.org.
Attachment(s):
- Job Description - Controller