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```Job Overview: As the leader of the finance team at the Topeka Zoo & Conservation Center, our Director of Accounting & Controller supports the organization by ensuring the financial health of the organization. We’re seeking an experienced controller to oversee this highly detailed team. The ideal candidate will have experience as an accountant, preferably in a senior role. As a strong communicator and skilled financial analyst, this individual will streamline our budgeting, payroll, tax, audit and financial reporting processes. The controller will create, manage, and analyze operations and capital improvement budgets and produce thorough financial-status reports for senior managers, CEO, and the Friends of the Topeka Zoo Board of Directors to help improve our operational efficiency and aid in our continued growth.
Essential Functions:
As the leader of the accounting team, the financial controller is responsible for closely monitoring the Friends of the Topeka Zoo’s financial health. You maintain, manage, and analyze financial statements, payroll, budgets, tax compliance issues, and more. You are looked to as the financial expert, maintaining, correcting, and producing accurate financial statements, reports, and accurate data for the Executive Board, specifically the Treasurer.
Core
· Individual streamlines our budgeting, payroll, and financial reporting processes.
· Produce thorough financial-status reports for senior managers to help improve our operational efficiency and aid in our continued growth.
· Ensure that monthly bank reconciliations are complete and accurate.
· Comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and all tax filings
· Manage the general ledger and record journal entries as needed and make monthly adjustments to the Balance Sheet
· Manage depreciation and deferred income schedules
· Produce and insure accurate monthly financials for the CEO, Treasurer and Board before the monthly Executive Board meeting.
Qualifications: (Knowledge, Skill, and Ability)
Supervisor
Administrative
· Maintain and update files, and files.
· Communications (email, phone, written correspondence)
· Record expenditures and transactions
· Manager payables and bank deposits
· Provider oversight for cash handling
· Perform reconciliation processes for bank and credit card statements
· Make needed tax payments
· Conduct fund transfers as needed
Performance Measurements & Primary Accountability:
· Accurate and timely processing of work
· Collaborative relationships are developed and maintained with customers and staff (internal and external)
o Team player that accomplishes work tasks in collaboration with others
o Ability to change while accepting and supporting management decisions
· Achievement of objectives as outlined by leadership
· Arrive and depart from work timely per schedule
The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
· Ability to exercise care to avoid accidents.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
· Casual office setting with little discomfort due to such factors as noise, heat, dust, or other adverse factors
· This is a non-smoking work environment, including all premises and other such areas
· Travel may be required, along with that entails standard travel risks
This job description does not state nor implies that these are the only activities to be performed by the team member holding this position. Staff is required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related responsibilities as requested by management.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodation will be made which may pose serious health or safety risk to the team member or others or which impose undue hardships on The Practice. An individual seeking accommodation should contact Human Resources immediately.
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Job descriptions are not intended to and do not create employment contracts. Team members can be terminated at any time, for any reason not prohibited by law.
FOTZ is an at-will employer.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $85,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year
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Work Location: In person
Full Time
$157k-199k (estimate)
03/13/2024
04/22/2024
topekazoo.com
Topeka, IN
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