Principal Financial Analyst - Supervisor

Waukesha County; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Waukesha County is seeking a strategic Principal Financial Analyst to design and implement a centralized finance service model supporting County departments with consistent, high-quality financial services.

The role emphasizes a strong accounting background, with CPA considered a plus, and includes managing dashboards, reconciling balances, and evaluating financial impacts of decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, public administration, accounting, finance, or a closely related field.
• Three (3) years of responsible professional work experience in accounting, budgets, ledgers, or computerized accounting systems.
• A master's degree may substitute for one year of work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a centralized finance service model for County departments.
• Manage department financial dashboards to present budget drivers and performance indicators.
• Implement and maintain automation tools to streamline Accounts Payable and other processes.
• Lead or coordinate staff providing centralized financial services.

Skills

Accounting

Budgeting

Financial analysis

Dashboarding

CPA consideration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, public administration, accounting, finance, or a closely related field

Master's degree may substitute for one year of experience

Tools

Excel

Financial dashboards

Job description

SALARY RANGE $47.03 - $71.12

Waukesha County is seeking a strategic, collaborative, and process-focused Principal Financial Analyst to help design and implement a centralized finance service model that supports County departments with consistent, high-quality financial services. This position will work closely with departments to fully understand their current financial procedures, reporting needs, pain points, and operational requirements. Using that knowledge, the Principal Financial Analyst will recommend improvements to financial processing, reporting, and service delivery while helping build a scalable model that allows additional departments to transition into centralized financial support with limited disruption. A strong accounting background is essential for this role, with CPA certification considered a plus. This position will be expected to help ensure account balances are properly understood, monitored, and reconciled, including balance sheet activity that may have operational or budgetary impacts. The successful candidate should be comfortable interpreting financial statements, identifying reconciliation issues, and analyzing the financial and operational impacts of business decisions. This may include evaluating the financial viability of County programs or of vendors, contractors, or other entities when the County is considering long-term contracts or service arrangements

In addition, a successful candidate will require strong technical skills. A major focus of this role will be managing department financial dashboards so that key budget drivers, trends, account activity, and performance indicators are presented in a clear and easily digestible manner. The position will also help implement and maintain automation tools used to streamline Accounts Payable and other financial processes. This role may also lead or coordinate the work of staff providing centralized financial services to County departments. The approved classification includes responsibility for planning, assigning, reviewing, evaluating, and coordinating the work of other department personnel, as well as providing necessary training.

Minimum Training & Experience Requirements

1. Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in business administration, public administration, accounting, finance, or a closely related field.
2. Three (3) years of responsible professional work experience in areas of accounting, budget preparation, maintaining expense, revenues, and general ledgers, or computerized accounting systems.
3. A master's degree in an area listed above may be substituted for one (1) year of the work experience requirement.

Waukesha County provides a comprehensive compensation and benefits package including excellent health/dental/vision, life insurance, generous paid time off (vacation, 10 holidays, 3 floating holidays, ample accrued sick time that rolls over each year), an exceptional pension plan with employer match and lifetime retirement payment plus an optional tax advantaged 457 retirement savings plan. Amongst many other benefits, employees are recognized and valued through a pay for performance system. Successful candidates will be eligible for performance-based merit increases and non-base performance awards. Employee well-being is promoted through a balanced work-life culture and through an exceptional employee wellness program that offers a variety of programs and tools to help promote an employee's wellness and health, including an on-site health & wellness clinic.

About Us: Waukesha County prides itself on operating in a business-like manner and is recognized as a leader delivering high quality services with competence and skill. With our vision of "Leading the Way", we value teamwork and collaboration, ethics and diversity, communication, efficiency and cost savings, innovation, and the wellbeing of our staff and the citizens we serve. Employees are provided professional development opportunities and encouragement to learn and practice continuous improvement and LEAN principles as we regularly ask ourselves "Is there a better way?"

Location: Located in the City of Waukesha, our campus offers an on-site fitness center, free parking, and easy access to interstate highway systems. Waukesha County offers a perfect blend of urban and rural living where one can enjoy the benefits of quiet rural lake communities or opt for nearby attractions that the greater Milwaukee area offers including vast beach and park systems, public markets, performing arts, music festivals, and sports including the Milwaukee Admirals, Brewers, Bucks, Wave, Marquette University Golden Eagles and the UW-Milwaukee Panthers Basketball programs.

EEO: Waukesha County is committed to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in employment and adheres to all Federal, State and County Equal Employment Opportunity laws, policies, plans, rules, regulations and ordinances. The County recognizes and accepts its important leadership role in providing for equal employment/service opportunities. It is the express policy of Waukesha County to promote equal employment opportunity among all who are employed by Waukesha County and who seek employment with Waukesha County.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The County does not sponsor applicants for work visas. If you have any recruitment questions or if you need an accommodation during the selection process because of a disability, please contact our office at 262-548-7044.

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