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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $175.7k - $193.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛔️ Financial Controller

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Calbright College

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Calbright College is an online, competency-based California community college that offers flexible, tuition-free (for eligible adult Californians) certificate programs and workforce-focused training in areas such as IT support, cybersecurity, data analysis, CRM platform administration, project management, HR, and community health. The college emphasizes career readiness through industry-aligned curricula, personalized student support (career counseling, academic coaching, tutoring), partnerships with employers, and preparation for industry-recognized certifications.

📋 Description

• Lead the day-to-day operations of accounting, payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, procurement support, and vendor accounts • Build, execute, document, assess, and maintain internal controls, accounting policies, and procedures • Ensure compliance with GAAP, GASB, FASB, federal and state requirements, and College policies • Guide and train Finance Division staff and College departments on fiscal policies and regulations • Prepare monthly financial statements, budget-to-actual analyses, expenditure reports, and other fiscal reports • Manage inter-fund transfers, bank wires, signature controls, cash position, banking operations, and cash-handling procedures • Oversee the College credit card program and reconciliation controls • Review and approve payroll registers, employee pay calculations, payroll tax reports, and retirement reports • Lead monthly and annual close processes, including year-end statements, accruals, journal entries, and schedules • Maintain the general ledger and chart of accounts • Evaluate GASB, FASB, and GAAP pronouncements and implement accounting changes • Serve as technical liaison with county offices, retirement systems, and professional accounting/payroll organizations • Administer financial information systems and serve as system administrator for the travel and expense management system • Coordinate monitoring of federal and state grants and projects for legal compliance • Coordinate external audits, respond to audit reports, and implement accounting system modifications • Prepare financial materials for Board of Trustees agenda items and presentations • Assist with risk management and oversee fixed asset and capital equipment inventory controls • Maintain the purchasing and contracting policy manual • Directly supervise accounting, payroll, and procurement support staff, including recruitment, training, work assignment, and performance appraisal • Serve as the Chief Financial Officer’s designee for defined Finance Division functions during the CFO’s absence or vacancy

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution, preferably in accounting or a related field • Five to seven years of increasingly responsible accounting, budgeting, and/or finance experience • Experience in education finance and/or administration • Experience in payroll accounting, processing, and compliance • Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Governmental Accounting Standards Board, and Financial Accounting Standards Board requirements • Knowledge of general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, cash management, and banking operations • Knowledge of CalSTRS and CalPERS retirement reporting • Experience with enterprise resource planning systems • Experience developing and improving internal controls, policies, and procedures • Experience with public-sector accounting, auditing, financial statements, budgets, and fiscal reports • Experience coordinating annual fiscal audits and implementing audit recommendations • Experience directing, supervising, training, motivating, and evaluating personnel • Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing • Ability to handle confidential information and work independently • Ability to operate computers and software for scheduling, email, databases, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations • Ability to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds • Ability to comply with mandated reporter requirements under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, Calbright College policies, procedures, and Title IX

🏖️ Benefits

• Primarily remote work arrangement • Administrative offices in Sacramento available for use • Digital communication tools for remote work • Reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities • Equal employment opportunity protections