Finance Director

Organization: City of Anna

Location: Anna, Texas

Job Type: Entry-Level Job, Full-time

Salary: Depends on Qualifications

Deadline: Open until filled

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the City Manager, the Finance Director oversees the Finance Department’s staff and Customer Service Division, which includes the Utility Billing and Municipal Court divisions. The Director manages budgets totaling $862,124 and a total of eight full-time employees. IT services are provided to the various City departments through a contract with a third party vendor. The Finance Director manages this contractual service.

The Accountant II, Budget and Finance Analyst, Customer Service Supervisor, and Information Technology contractor report directly to the Finance Director.

The City has developed the following goals and objectives for the Finance Department for 2017:

Finance

·        Implement partnership with new auditor

·        Oversee development on Annual CAFR and apply for GFOA CAFR award

·        Implement new transparency program from State Comptroller

·        Maintain GFOA budget award

·        Improve accounting procedures

·        Evaluate and improve financial controls and procedures

·        Develop a financial procedures manual

·        Transition from multiple bank accounts to a pooled cash system

Municipal Court

·        Continue work towards Level III Court Certification

·        Implement and plan to participate in the Texas Warrant Round-up

·        Continue to work with AMS and PD on collection of warrants

·        Further cross train UB office staff to help with the processing of cases

·        Increase community awareness of Municipal Courts’ Week

·        Evaluate system to allow defendants to receive notification of citation and pay ticket via smartphone

Utility Billing

·        Provide all UB forms on City website in a user-friendly format (coordinate with updating website)

·        Continue working with AMS on delinquent account collections

·        Develop customer reports with Asyst to improve efficiency

·        Support implementation of AMI system

To Apply: 

Please apply online at: http://bit.ly/SGRCurrentSearches

For More Information: For more information on this position contact:

Molly Deckert, Senior Vice President

Strategic Government Resources

MollyDeckert@GovernmentResource.com

816-804-2818

Or view the full job description at: http://annatexas.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1982