Associate Controller - Atlanta, United States - Georgia Tech

Description

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Summary

Direct the preparation of Institute and/or affiliated organizations financial statements, reports and performance metrics for management, auditors, and rating agencies. Manage accounting and financial operations and oversee financial and tax compliance audits, activities and programs. Provide guidance and advice to campus management regarding finance and accounting issues. Responsible for setting employee and/or group goals, making recommendations on organizational structure to meet the goals, assessing employee and/or group performance, providing feedback and making pay recommendations. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Institute financial management senior leadership, management, and staff; internal and external auditors; USG finance and accounting staff; State of GA management and staff. This position typically will advise and counsel: Same as above. This position will supervise: Financial and accounting managers and staff.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 - Direct the preparation of Institute and/or affiliated organizations GAAP and Budget Basis monthly, quarterly, annual and interim financial statements, reports and performance metrics for management, auditors and rating agencies.
Job Duty 2 - Manage accounting and financial operations which may include general accounting, capital assets accounting, budgets, cash and bank reconciliations, cash disbursements, cost transfers/journal entries, month/year-end closing and investments analysis.
Job Duty 3 - Oversee financial and/or tax compliance audits activities and programs working with financial managers and directors to ensure compliance with federal, state, USG and other policies, procedures and regulations.
Job Duty 4 - Develop internal control and accounting procedures and make recommendations as it relates to accounting and compliance issues.
Job Duty 5 - Serve as a liaison between internal and external audit agencies and financial units for annual financial statement audits. Coordinate and provide documentation and/or analysis of account balances for audit engagements.
Job Duty 6 - Provide direction to campus accounting and finance managers and directors regarding finance and accounting issues.
Job Duty 7 - Manage a team of accounting and finance professionals including daily oversight, setting employee and/or group goals, making recommendations on organizational structure to meet the goals, assessing employee and/or group performance, providing feedback and making pay recommendations.
Job Duty 8 - Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications
Overnight travel maybe required for up to two conferences a year.

Required Experience
Eight to ten years of job related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Experience with enterprise financial systems such as PeopleSoft, Oracle, Workday, etc and experience with associated query/reporting tools Prefer related experience in Higher Education

Preferred Educational Qualifications
Master's Degree

Proposed Salary

Proposed annual salary compensation range is $125,000 - $150,000, commensurate with education and experience.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

This job requires advanced knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, internal controls and audit standards; Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact with finance and accounting managers, director and executive leadership; Strong attention to detail, excellent customer service skills, and the ability to prioritize tasks effectively; Independent thought, judgment and action to solve complex problems; Experience preparing Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) basis and/or Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) basis financial statements. Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access).

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy .

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at .

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Other Information

This is not a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This position will not be required to drive.
This role is not considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel
This position does not require security clearance.