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At Palm Beach State College, you will discover a place where ideas come to life and the heartbeat of a county begins. By joining us, you will be exposed to professionals from across the U.S. and abroad who are the strivers, reinventors, explorers, and influencers dedicated to developing talent that fills the most needed workforce roles. As the Panthers, we embrace a community of belonging, caring, and connection for our students and employees. We seek creative individuals to help PBSC fulfill its mission of inspiring hope, advancing skills, and transforming lives.
About this role
Responsible for providing leadership and oversight of the College's accounting, financial reporting, financial compliance, and related internal control functions on a college-wide basis. Ensures the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of the College's financial records and reporting, supports strategic decision-making through financial analysis, and promotes consistent financial practices across all campuses and operational units.
What a day of a Controller looks like:
Serves as the College's principal accounting officer and provides college-wide leadership, guidance, and oversight related to accounting practices, financial reporting, reconciliations, internal controls, and financial compliance.
Develops, recommends, implements, and monitors college-wide accounting policies, procedures, and internal control standards to safeguard assets, ensure compliance, and promote consistent financial practices.
Reviews and ensures application of appropriate internal controls, compliance and financial procedures. Performs internal examinations of functions and operations of the College to determine compliance with policies, procedures and standards.
Enhances accounting systems, processes, tools and control systems to improve methods and procedures.
Partners with executive leadership to ensure continuity of critical accounting, payroll, treasury, financial reporting, and financial system operations during emergencies and disruptions.
Prepares comprehensive financial reports and ensures reports maintain compliance with federal state, and local laws and regulations. Delivers accurate and timely external reporting and drives meaningful internal financial analysis, reporting and forecasting.
Executes plans relating to cash management based upon the long-term needs of the College. Includes maintenance of appropriate bank balances.
Forecasts short-term and long-range cash and budgetary needs. Determines specific ways and costs of obtaining funds and investing excess funds.
Analyzes current or proposed investments in equipment, stocks, and bonds with respect to predicting future performance. Includes preparation of proformas.
Provides financial analysis, historical financial information, forecasting support, and accounting guidance to support the budget development process.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
We’d love to hear from you if you have the following:
Education and Experience:
Master’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or related field of study
Eight years of progressively responsible experience in accounting, financial reporting, or public-sector finance, including supervisory or management experience
Knowledge of:
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) reporting standards including federal tax laws and financial reporting
Microsoft Office Professional or similar application
Skilled in:
Strategic thinking including effective planning, setting goals, monitoring progress, tracking results and making appropriate adjustments to plans based on circumstances and context
Identifying details to assess cause and effect
Managing and resolving conflict in a positive manner
Ability to:
Plan and implement financial goals and strategies for the agency, and develop complex financial reports
Effectively communicate verbally and in writing on a regular basis with internal and external customers, build…