Fiscal Manager (Comptroller) - Promotional Only

City of St. Louis; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of St. Louis is seeking a Fiscal Manager (Comptroller) to lead the Comptroller’s Office accounting functions in Downtown St. Louis.

This position is promotional and open to permanent City employees; it oversees year-end processes, cash-bas is financial statements, and the ACFR, while coordinating with auditors and city officials. Qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business with 30 accounting hours and five years of financial management experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a Business degree with 30 accounting credits and five years of financial management experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversees and manages the year-end process for the City of St. Louis financial records.
• Oversees and manages the preparation of cash basis financial statements.
• Oversees the annual ACFR and serves as the main contact for the annual financial audit.

Job description

Job Description - Fiscal Manager (Comptroller) - Promotional Only (260000NG)

Job Description

Fiscal Manager (Comptroller) - Promotional Only - ( 260000NG )

Position Grade: 219M

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1791

Location: Downtown - St. Louis, MO

Promotional - Open to Permanent City Employees Only.

Incumbents in this position are responsible for managing the overall accounting functions for the Comptroller’s Office.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Oversees and manages the year-end Process for the Financial Records of the City of St. Louis.
• Oversees and manages the preparation of the City of St. Louis' Cash Basis Financial Statements.
• Oversees and manages the annual ACFR for the City of St. Louis.
• Serves as the main point of contact for the annual financial audit for the City of St. Louis.
• Plans, organizes, coordinates and controls the work unit’s operations/programs to establish operational priorities, coordinate these operations with other functions within the agency, and ensure program objectives and standards are established, attained and congruent with overall goals.
• Determines and requests/submits staff, material and equipment needs for managed operations/programs.
• Contributes to the formulation and justification of budgetary requests for the agency as a whole.
• Determines performance evaluation standards and procedures to provide information to subordinate staff on individual work performance expectations to ensure complete and objective appraisal of subordinates’ performance.
• Develops and directs the implementation of operational plans pertinent to managed operations/programs to ensure the establishment of appropriate goals and the development of action steps to achieve these goals.
• Develops and recommends new and revised statutes, rules, policies, and procedures to respond to changes in operational/program needs, objectives, and priorities and to improve the effectiveness of managed operations/programs.
• Coordinates daily activities of office by planning and scheduling activities and assigning staff.
• Establishes policies and procedures.
• Resolves problems or complaints from other departments, staff, city officials, vendors or the public.
• Reviews and approves payment of payroll, insurance, vouchers, requisitions, city expenditures, and travel requests.
• Examines and approves fiscal monitoring reports to be released.
• Prepares annual budget for respective office or division.
• Confers with outside agencies such as vendors, auditors, businesses, and neighborhood groups.
• May act as a consultant or advisor to other departments regarding fiscal matters.
• May serve on related committees or boards.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid to upper-level data analysis including the ability to coordinate, strategize, systemize and correlate, using discretion in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations within an organizational framework. Requires the ability to implement decisions based on such data, and overseeing the execution of these decisions.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to manage and direct a large group of employees, which may include firstline supervisors. Oversees and controls employee discipline, selection and allocation, and planning of human resources.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a personal computer, printer, calculator and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as contracts, revenue and audit reports, budget requests, guidelines and nonroutine correspondence.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; requires the ability to interpret descriptive statistics.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
• Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.
• Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling of objects weighing five (5) to ten (10) pounds, such as office supplies. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
• Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and sounds textures associated with job‑related objects, materials and tasks, such as working on the computer.

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a Business degree with a minimum of 30 credit hours in Accounting; plus five years of financial management experience. OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Scoring Components and Their Weights

Experience and Training: 100%

May be Subject to:

Background Investigation: Pass/Fail

Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request

When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

City Residence Preference Points

City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points.

Accommodations

If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.

• City of St. LouisCity Hall1200 Market StreetSaint Louis, MO 63103