Affirmative Action No.:: 19P082

Department:: Wright State Research Institute

Position FTE::

100%

Minimum Annual or Hourly Rate: Negotiable

Job Purposes::

The Controller is responsible for direct supervision of all accounting and financial functions. Primary responsibilities include supervision of the monthly close process, monthly, quarterly and annual billings to clients for services provided, billing reimbursements from clients, collection of accounts receivable, supervising accounts payable, payroll, monthly reporting, monthly preparation of a reforecast, annual preparation of a budget, facilitate the preparation of quarterly tax projections and annual tax return preparation and all treasury administration. The Controller will also be the key part of a team that creates and implements policies and procedures to identify, resolve and document accounting issues in addition to creating procedures to make the close and reporting processes more efficient and accurate.
Key Objectives:

• Strengthen fiscal administration and reporting and lead WSARC/WSRI fiscal affairs including fiscal controls, compliance.
• Provide and enhance fiscal compliance, lead and oversee organization's audit responses to state auditor, as well as federal audit agencies and cognizant program office. Implement solutions to any findings in audits of the WSARC and WSRI.
• Provide the interface with WSU fiscal leadership and infrastructure and ensure that as a component unit of WSU, WSARC produces all required fiscal details to support various WSU reporting and audit needs on an as required basis.
• Provide monthly updates of the income statements, accounts payable, operational expenses, budget versus expense, labor utilization, fixed assets and depreciation schedules, profitability by project, unallowable tracking, service centers, accounts receivable, balance sheets, bank account balances as well as monthly revenue and expenses to the WSARC officers agreed to templates and formats, not later than 10 business
  days after the end of the month.
• Streamline and document the current process leveraging capabilities of the ERP to improve quality and reduce effort.

Required Qualifications::

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or business administration
• 10+ years of broad industry finance and accounting experience to include government contracting
• 5+ years of management experience
• Demonstrated experience of successfully managing finance accounting, budgeting, control, audit, compliance and reporting within a complex financial environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in working with grants, contracts, MOU’s and similar legal instruments.
• Experience overseeing compliance with financial management and reporting for Federal and State awards.

Preferred Qualifications::

One or more of the following is preferred:

• MBA
• Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Certified Defense Financial Manager or other recognized third-party certifications
  *Strong hands-on knowledge of Costpoint Financial System Software and back-end data sets (tables).
• 5+ years' experience with a government contractor
• Experience with BANNER Accounting System

Essential Functions and percent of time::

25% Financial and Operational Management and Compliance