Hybrid External Auditor: Lead Financial Reporting

Filetwigbay; City of Syracuse (NY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Personal development plan

Job summary

Filetwigbay seeks a mentorship-focused External Auditor in Syracuse, NY to partner with leadership on Financial Reporting, planning, and capital decisions. The role demands leadership to guide, not just execute, with a NY-based salary range of $65,000–$93,000.

You will lead quarter-end cycles, build budget-to-actual analyses, and oversee cash positioning, grant reporting, and payroll reconciliations, while developing an External Audit model to retire manual workbooks.

Qualifications

• Around 4+ years of hands-on experience in a finance role.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a mid-level capacity.
• Enough Excel to be dangerous, enough Financial Reporting to be trusted.
• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly.

Responsibilities

• Turn quarter-end into the calmest week of the finance cycle
• Build budget-vs-actual reviews managers across Syracuse look forward to
• Run weekly cash positioning and short-term borrowing decisions
• Steer the part-time grant reporting that keeps funders confident
• Build the External Audit model that finally retires the manual workbook
• Surface the three expense lines quietly eating the finance margin
• Reconcile payroll liabilities so the NY filings never bounce

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial Reporting

Leadership

Empathy

Tools

Excel

Job description

Filetwigbay seeks a mentorship-focused External Auditor in Syracuse, NY to partner with leadership on Financial Reporting, planning, and capital decisions. The role demands leadership to guide, not just execute, with a NY-based salary range of $65,000–$93,000.

You will lead quarter-end cycles, build budget-to-actual analyses, and oversee cash positioning, grant reporting, and payroll reconciliations, while developing an External Audit model to retire manual workbooks.