The City of Grover Beach is a vibrant, coastal community nestled along California's picturesque Central Coast. Covering 2.25 square miles, it is located between Santa Barbara and Monterey, offering easy access to stunning beaches and diverse recreational activities. This city of over 13,500 residents combines small-town charm with a moderate climate and year-round tourist appeal, including a unique drive-on beach. Grover Beach prioritizes enhancing the quality of life for its community, making it an exceptional place to live and work. Role Description The Finance Manager is a full-time position responsible for overseeing the fiscal operations of the City of Grover Beach. Key responsibilities include creating budgets, managing financial reports, conducting audits, ensuring regulatory compliance, and overseeing expenditure and revenue processes. The role involves providing guidance to team members, analyzing financial data to inform city decisions, and liaising with stakeholders to maintain fiscal responsibility. This hybrid role is based in Grover Beach, CA, with opportunities for partial remote work. Receives direct supervision from the Administrative Services Director. This position may exercise technical supervision over assigned support staff. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: (include but are not limited to the following) Directs the preparation, maintenance, verification and reconciliation of a wide variety of accounting and financial reports. Participates in the preparation of the City’s Comprehensive annual Financial Reports (CAFR). Participates in the preparation of the City’s budget, coordinate budget preparation with the Director of Administrative Services. Ensures that the City’s financial records are complete, accurate, and in compliance with laws, ordinances, and regulations which affect municipal finance operations (i.e. Governmental Accounting Standards Boards ‘GASB’ and generally accepted accounting principles “GAAP”). Participates in the maintenance and analysis of general ledger accounts, and other account subsystems such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory, fixed assets, revenues and utility billing systems. Participates in the preparation of financial statements, schedules and other statistical and financial reports; prepares financial statements and various reports for federal and state agencies as well as for internal accounting purposes; assists management staff in preparing and reviewing fund balance projections. Responsible for the compilation of budget requests, preparation of preliminary and final budget documents, and various transactions required for budget control and administration. Supervises utility billing, payroll, accounts payable and receivable, business license and all other customer service activities. Examines, reconciles, balances and adjusts accounting records; reconciles and prepares bank reconciliation for multiple accounts. Prepares a variety of state, federal, and local claims, statements and reports from a variety of sources including computerized data, accounting records and other source documents. Interprets data and generates related statistical and fiscal reports; prepares and submits accounting information for data processing and inputs data. Assists in the development, maintenance and enhancement of computerized information systems for accounting and financial functions. May prepare public and staff presentations on a wide variety of issues having fiscal implications to the City. Participates in the management of the City’s investment portfolio. Establishes positive working relationships with representatives of community organizations, federal/state/local agencies and associations, City management and staff, and the public. Perform related duties and responsibilities as required. Requirements A Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration or a closely-related field; and Four years of professional accounting experience, preferably in a governmental or public agency setting. #J-18808-Ljbffr