Assistant Controller

Position Summary:

This position reports to the Controller. It is responsible for analyzing financial information and preparing financial reports to determine or maintain record of assets, liabilities, profit and loss, tax liability, reconciliation of general ledger accounts or other financial activities within the Bank. This position acts as the Controller in the Controller’s absence. 

Essential Functions:

• Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Familiarity with the chart of accounts and assigns entries to proper accounts.
• Prepares and controls the entering of journal entries to the general ledger.
• Documents all transaction and general ledger adjustments. 
• Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current computer technology.
• Interacts with accounting personnel to ensure compliance with established accounting procedures. 
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, or maintain solutions to business and financial problems.
• Furnishes internal reports, revises and updates reports to be more useful and efficient, and furnishes external reports as necessary.
• Furnishes support and documentation to internal and external auditors and examiners as requested.
• Oversees bank balances.
• Coordinates the completion of the balance sheet account analysis.
• Evaluates subsidiary journals for obvious errors and omissions and prepares corrected data for entry into the general ledger. 
• Ensures proper reconciliation of all monthly account reconciliations. 
• Assists Controller with daily operations, remaining current on all duties and procedures within the Accounting Department to assist or perform duties as needed.
• Maintains an accounting of service corporation activities and related joint ventures in the Controller’s absence.
• Prepares financial statements, board reports and cash flow statements in the Controller’s absence.
• Prepares and posts all service corporation activities, i.e. cash receipts, journal entries, general ledger, cash disbursements, general ledger reconciliations, cash management backup, and tax and audit schedules in the Controller’s absence.
• Assists financial reporting supervisors with daily operations. 
• Coordinates corporate accounting activities, including accounts payable in the Controller’s absence.
• Develops and maintains complex computer-based analyses and reports of financial institution accounting records on a regular basis. 
• Monitors fixed-asset management in the Controller’s absence.
• Maintains administration of systems and applications administered by the Accounting Department.
• Reviews commercial wire agreements for proper execution.
• All other duties assigned.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Attributes:

• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Mathematical Reasoning - The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• Excellent organizational and financial management skills. 

Working Conditions:

The work for this position is conducted in an office environment and the requirement for travel is limited.  Travel for training and meetings may be required from time to time. This position may require some work on Saturdays and extended hours as work load and deadlines dictate. 

 Americans with Disability Specifications:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.  Must be able to sit at the computer and do data entry and look at the screen for extended periods of time with minimal breaks.

Experience and Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required.  Master’s Degree, CPA license and four to six years of experience in theoretical and practical accounting or banking preferred.   

 EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled