Director of Finance and Administration

CLAS­SI­FI­CA­TION: Direc­tor of Finance and Administration

DEPART­MENT: Admin­is­tra­tion

SUPER­VI­SOR: Exec­u­tive Director

EFFEC­TIVE DATE: Octo­ber 1, 2023

PAY LEV­EL: 250 ($87,119.82 — $163,055.64)

PAY CLAS­SI­FI­CA­TION: Exempt

DEF­I­N­I­TION: Under gen­er­al super­vi­sion of the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, directs all account­ing, fis­cal man­age­ment, per­son­nel and admin­is­tra­tive func­tions of the Air­port Authority. 

Respon­si­bil­i­ties include lease and prop­er­ty admin­is­tra­tion; air­port insur­ance pro­gram and fis­cal admin­is­tra­tion of fed­er­al and state grant pro­grams; per­forms relat­ed duties as assigned.

EXAM­PLES OF DUTIES: Pre­pares and coor­di­nates the col­lec­tions, inter­pre­ta­tion, recording 

and dis­tri­b­u­tion of finan­cial records and reports; mon­i­tors fis­cal activ­i­ties and insures com­pli­ance with applic­a­ble fed­er­al, state and local reg­u­la­tions; coor­di­nates fis­cal ser­vices with banks and finan­cial agen­cies; devel­ops and main­tains required account­ing and book­keep­ing sys­tems and pro­ce­dures, includ­ing jour­nals, gen­er­al ledgers and sub­sidiary ledgers; coor­di­nates annu­al audit with exter­nal audi­tors; imple­ments changes rec­om­mend­ed by auditors. 

Super­vis­es and par­tic­i­pates in the accounts receiv­able, accounts payable and pur­chas­ing func­tions; main­tains records and reports; process­es pay­ments, ini­ti­ates wire trans­fers, updates and rec­on­ciles data, resolves dis­crep­an­cies; pre­pares bids; pre­pares and mon­i­tors pay­roll for air­port per­son­nel; pre­pares required tax returns and reports; super­vis­es changes and pay­roll deductions.

Main­tains per­son­nel records; pro­vides admin­is­tra­tive sup­port for depart­ment heads and super­vi­sors for all per­son­nel mat­ters; admin­is­ters per­son­nel ben­e­fits pro­gram includ­ing health insur­ance, life insur­ance and retire­ment; pro­vides gen­er­al admin­is­tra­tion of the air­port lease and prop­er­ty man­age­ment func­tions; admin­is­ters the air­port insur­ance program. 

QUAL­I­FI­CA­TIONS: Grad­u­a­tion from an accred­it­ed four-year col­lege or uni­ver­si­ty with major course work in account­ing, finance or busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion; and five years of pro­gres­sive­ly respon­si­ble pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence in gov­ern­men­tal or com­mer­cial account­ing or finance; or any equiv­a­lent com­bi­na­tion of edu­ca­tion, train­ing and expe­ri­ence; thor­ough knowl­edge of account­ing, finan­cial and per­son­nel man­age­ment prin­ci­ples, prac­tices and tech­niques; cer­ti­fied Pub­lic Account or equiv­a­lent expe­ri­ence desired. Must pos­sess strong inter­per­son­al admin­is­tra­tive skills and the abil­i­ty to inter­face with and effec­tive­ly com­mu­ni­cate with Air­port staff, users, ten­ants, con­sul­tants, gov­ern­men­tal enti­ties and the gen­er­al pub­lic; must be able to com­mu­ni­cate effec­tive­ly in both oral and writ­ten form. Employ­ee must be accred­it­ed by the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Air­port Exec­u­tives or com­plete the accred­i­ta­tion process with­in three years of the date of hire.

MIS­CEL­LA­NEOUS REQUIRE­MENTS: Must pass pre-employ­ment drug test­ing as well as peri­od­ic test­ing in accor­dance with air­port pol­i­cy; must pass a 10-year, fin­ger­print-based, crim­i­nal his­to­ry records check as required by the Trans­porta­tion Secu­ri­ty Administration.