Berkeley Lab's Office of the Chief Financial Officer has an opening for a Senior Accounting Manager - Financial Accounting and Controls.
What You Will Do: Reporting to the Controller, this position is responsible for the daily operations and oversight of one or more of the Controller's Office business units, with functions that include General Accounting, Banking, Taxes, Financial Compliance. These units will focus on meeting the external reporting and compliance requirements and expectations of the Department of Energy and University of California. This position is responsible for the development and execution of budgets, work plans, and performance requirements. This position will have direct management of exempt and non-exempt level professionals at various skill levels.
This position will be a member of the Controller's Office Leadership Team and have primary responsibility and accountability for various functions within the Office of the CFO, with a focus on ensuring appropriate levels of internal customer support, compliance to DOE regulations and requirements, external reporting, and compliance requirements and expectations of UC. Primary responsibilities include General Accounting, Banking, Taxes, and Financial Compliance. Responsible for management and ownership of all policies, process and technologies that support these functions. Responsible for identification and resolution of policy, processes and/or reporting issues, where analysis requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives. Identify, lead, and implement process and system improvement projects. Play a lead role in maintaining a project management and process re-engineering culture within the work unit to drive increased effectiveness and efficiency. Develop robust operational service levels to ensure that financial services performed are in alignment with Laboratory expectations including performance measurements, which monitor volume, efficiency, effectiveness, and process participant performance. Lead, manage, and supervise exempt and non-exempt level accounting professionals in a highly complex environment. Mentor and develop staff by improving and/or enhancing the skills, knowledge and ability of staff to achieve higher levels of effectiveness and efficiency. Build and maintain effective and productive partnerships, internally and externally to the Laboratory including but not limited to other OCFO departments, (Procurement, Budget Office, Field Finance, Business Systems Analysis), other operations departments (Information Technology Division), division partners (Business Managers and Principal Investigators), and sponsors (DOE Chicago and Berkeley Site Office staff and management). Provide leadership or participation on various project teams as the subject matter expert for the Controller's Office. Provide assistance to the Controller and other Managers in a leadership role, as required.
What is Required: Twelve years related experience and a Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience. Substantial experience managing and leading multiple major financial operations functional areas such as General Accounting, Cost Accounting, Financial Reporting, Financial Compliance, Banking, Tax, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Travel, and Conference Services. CPA or CMA. Demonstrated leadership responsibilities to have included people, policies, processes and technologies. Comprehensive knowledge and demonstrated understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), financial statement preparation and analysis, IRS and California state tax, regulations, ancillary accounting processes, banking and cash management, and ERP accounting systems. Comprehensive knowledge and demonstrated understanding of financial services operations in the federal contractor or management and operating laboratory environment. Proven ability to effectively manage and lead a sizeable financial unit. Proven ability to ensure compliance while maintaining a focus on customer service and supporting the mission needs of the Laboratory; Significant experience in audit and financial compliance. Experience working with and reporting from an enterprise financial/reporting system such as Oracle or PeopleSoft general ledger and project costing subledger. Experience in building and enhancing financial internal controls assurance programs, such as OMB A-123 or SOX. Proven advanced ability to analyze existing processes and recommend, lead and implement process improvement and/or enhancements, including policy and technology considerations. Proven advanced ability to implement technology solutions, from a functional perspective, that enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of a process. Demonstrated expertise in communication skills, both verbal and written; Demonstrated expertise in utilizing interpersonal skills to effectively explain, negotiate, persuade and build consensus among diverse stakeholders. Demonstrated expertise in independently creating position/white papers and detailed and readily understood briefings, reports, proposals and presentations. Demonstrated expertise in relationship building and management; establishing and maintaining strong and effective working relationships with a broad cross-section of senior management and managerial personnel, both internal and external to the Laboratory. Ability to exercise prudent judgement when dealing with complicated relationship management challenges. Ability to work in excess of a normal workweek to meet assignments/deliverables and work well under pressure and successfully meet hard deadlines.
The posting shall remain open until the position is filled, however for full consideration, please apply by close of business on May 21, 2020.
Notes: Appointment Type: Career Appointment - This is a full time career appointment. Work Schedule:Full-time, M-F, exempt (monthly paid) from overtime pay. Salary is commensurate with experience. This position may be subject to a background check. Any convictions will be evaluated to determine if they directly relate to the responsibilities and requirements of the position. Having a conviction history will not automatically disqualify an applicant from being considered for employment. Work will be primarily performed at: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA. Classification will depend upon the applicant's level of skills, knowledge, and abilities. (For dual postings - add this to the position summary at the end of the paragraph) This position will be filled at the Sr Finance Manager, Accounting (F17.3) or Sr Finance Manager II, Accounting (F17.4) level, dependent on experience.
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