Chief Financial Officer

Applications should be accompanied by a cover letter and resume. 

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a key member of the City’s leadership team, responsible for managing the financial operations of the city. This position involves strategic financial planning, management of city funds, budgeting, accounting, and financial reporting. The CFO will ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations and will provide leadership in optimizing the city’s financial performance and strategic position.

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• Plan, direct, organize and review general procedures and results of fiscal management including accounting, budgetary control, revenue collection, special assessments, investment programs, City purchasing, and budget preparation.
• Develop and institute systems, operations and procedures relative to fiscal control programs, draft and issue department rules and regulations, policies and procedures; implement directives from the City Manager.
• Review expenditures and budget appropriations; make adjustments resulting from budget revisions; prepare reports which would serve as a basis for budget requests; analyze cost of operations; develop annual and long-range budgets; confer with the City Manager and Department Directors to solve budgetary and fiscal problems, prepare of cost estimates and resolve related issues.
• Oversee the administration and enforcement the City's tax and license ordinances; ensure the City conducts audits to determine tax liability as required; interpret and explain legal provisions, regulations and procedures relating to taxation and license requirements.
• Support the cross departmental utility billing functions of the City; ensure that billing policies are adhered to.
• Oversee and support staff in the following functions: purchasing, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and auditing.
• Meet and confer with City officials, consultants, interested community groups, and the public on all facets of the Finance Department and its related responsibilities.
• Responsible for all financial compliance reporting including IRS, federal regulations, state requirements, etc.; implement accounting methods to ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP) and manage the annual audit of City's financial records and transactions.
• Develop and implement sound financial policies to ensure fiscally responsible decisions and guidelines are institutionalized; administer the debt and related legal requirements of the City.
• Direct the maintenance of a variety of department records and files; issue and preserve official documents and records; serve as Treasurer of the City.
• Attend conferences and meetings to keep abreast of the current trends of the field.
• Perform related work as required and assigned.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:   Works under broad policy guidance and direction of the City Administrator.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:  Exercises supervision over Finance Department

KNOWLEDGE:  Thorough knowledge of the principles and methods of fiscal management and budgetary control; of fiscal accounting principles, practices and procedures.  Considerable knowledge of municipal organizations including applicable budgetary laws and regulations.  Working knowledge of electronic data processing principles, practices, software and equipment.  

SKILL:  Demonstrated skill in preparing written and verbal reports and projects; skill in the operation of equipment necessary to perform the functions of the job.

ABILITY: Ability to analyze variety of fiscal problems and make recommendations; to plan, organize, supervise and evaluate the work of others; to communicate effectively verbally and in writing; establish and maintain effective working relationships with the employees, City officials, other departments, banking and investment officials, and the public.  Ability to be bonded. 

TRAINING:  Graduation from college or a university with a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Public Administration or closely related field; Master’s degree desired. 

EXPERIENCE:  Eight (8) years of increasingly responsible professional fiscal experience in public operation of moderate size and complexity with minimum of five (5) years managerial experience or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides evidence that the applicant possesses the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

Possession of a valid Colorado Driver’s license with a safe driving record is desired.  Ability to pass a thorough background investigation, including a credit check.

This position is primarily administrative in nature, working indoors (90%) completing tasks such as reading and reviewing reports, papers and other documents, writing reports, papers, correspondence and other documents.  This portion of the job will require acute mental skills, a lengthy attention span, and ability to focus on close work and involves sitting (75%), walking (15%), and standing (10%) and the use of hands to fingers.  Interaction with co-workers is an everyday occurrence and requires the ability to direct, negotiate and mediate.  Will be required to attend some evening or weekend meetings.

This position establishes the policies and procedures for the department.  Situations will often dictate that this position must interpret those policies and procedures or in the absence of any relevant policy or procedure this position may be called upon to make decisions and judgments based upon facts and circumstances presented.  This requires the ability to think independently and to use logic along with all the known facts to render appropriate decisions.

The ability to properly operate or use the following equipment is necessary for this position:  telephone, personal computer and associated software, fax machine, photocopy machines, calculator, and other office equipment.