The Financial Controller for the College provides key support to the AVP Finance and the Chief Financial Officer by preparing monthly financial statements, variance reports and month end consolidating entries. Furthermore, this position will aid in the areas of project accounting, fixed assets, deposits, annual financial statement audit, annual tax returns and ad hoc financial analysis. This position supervises the Senior Staff Accountant, overseeing their entries to ensure that donation and pledge cash receipts are recorded in the accounting system correctly. The Financial Controller reviews the Endowment and contribution related reconciliations prepared by the Senior Staff Accountant verifying these are properly reconciled monthly. This position also acts as a budget liaison for designated divisions, performing monthly variance analysis to include reviewing and communicating monthly variance reports for assigned budget managers.
Salary Range: $75,000 - $85,000
Required Qualifications:
Education: Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business-related field.
Other skills important to this position:
- Strong organizational and time-management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Ability to work quickly to complete high-volume tasks in an accurate and timely manner
- Detail-oriented
- Ability to work courteously and effectively under pressure
- Strong analytical skills and ability to solve moderately difficult to difficult problems
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, and strong customer service skills
- Strong computer skills
- Strong team player
- Confidentiality
- Commitment to company values
Preferences may be given to applicants who have three or more years working in a college Business or Controller’s office and/or possess a CPA certificate or license.
The successful candidate will be subject to a criminal history background check.
Regular, reliable or predictable attendance is an essential function of the job.
Working Conditions and Efforts: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands and vision for office equipment such as computers; talk or hear; moderate telephone usage. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Work environment: Office environment. Outside travel is rarely required. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
This position is classified as an exempt position because it requires that the candidate/employee exercise independent judgement and discretion regarding matters of significance.
Employment with VCOM is “at-will”. This means employment is for an indefinite period of time and it is subject to termination by the employee or by VCOM, with or without cause, with or without notice, and at any time. Nothing in this position description or any other policy of VCOM shall be interpreted to be in conflict with or to eliminate or modify in any way, the “at-will” employment status of VCOM employees.
VCOM core values: The employee is expected to adhere to all VCOM policies. As the environment is a professional college, VCOM faculty / staff are expected to dress and behave in a professional manner at work. VCOM faculty / staff are expected as VCOM employees, to be a person who obeys all laws and professional expectations of an upstanding citizen of the community. VCOM expects all employees to maintain a positive attitude in all working relationships with all VCOM departments, employees, medical students, prospective medical students, interns, and residents and to treat all other engaged in the duties of the employment, with mutual respect.
I am notified that the College is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability.