Edgewood Center for Children and Families

Position Description

Edgewood Center for Children and Families, the oldest children’s charity west of the Mississippi, is seeking a Controller. Edgewood provides behavioral health, family support, and education services to over 5000 children and families in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. Reporting to the CFO, this position occupies the administrative heart of the organization and greatly impacts Agency goals and strategies. The Controller’s primary concern is to help the Agency meet its financial outcomes so that it can develop more programs and services to meet the needs of our clients. To this end, the Controller must exercise independent judgment to make informed cash flow decisions on a daily basis. The Controller must also advise program directors, Human Resources, and other administrative teams regarding budgeting for new hires and other program related expenses.

This position will be based out of the Vicente Street campus in San Francisco and will require occasional travel to our San Mateo program locations. We provide excellent benefits, competitive salary, and a positive working environment.

Essential Functions:
• Experience with medical insurance invoicing.
• Directly supervises accounting employees in the following areas:
1. General Ledger
2. Program Services Invoicing
3. Accounts Payable
4. Accounts Receivable
5. Payroll
6. Collections, billing, & contracts depreciation/fixed assets
• Produces monthly financial statements and analysis for Finance Committee and for Board presentations
• Analyzes and discusses program variances
• Reconciles monthly financial statements reported to the Board to audited financial statements
• Discusses units/revenue maximization on a quarterly basis
• Maintains responsibility for all audits within the agency, including but not limited to:
1. Worker’s Compensation
2. Grantors
3. City,County, State and other government agencies
• Prepares reports for management monthly, or as needed, in the following areas:
1. Cash flow needs of the Agency
2. Restricted Funds
3. Compliance with terms and conditions of outstanding debt obligations
4. Capital expenses
• Reviews and controls posting of all journal entries for monthly and year-end activities
• Prepares all materials necessary for agency and program audits
• Reviews and prepares work papers for all tax returns, pension reporting, state rate reporting, and cost reporting, and all other external reporting
• Maintains the Accounting Policies and Procedures Manual to current standards
• Provides training to accounting employees with regard to Policies and Procedures
• Prepares services billing
• Other tasks as required or requested by the Chief of Finance and Administration

Minimum Requirements:
• BA in Finance/Accounting, MBA preferred
• CPA Required
• 5-10 years of relevant experience, preferably in a medical or social services non-profit context
• 5 years of supervisory experience
• Excellent capacity to interpret and ability to produce detailed reports/analysis
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to work under high pressure
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong knowledge of program and accounting languages
• Strong knowledge of financial auditing pronouncement standards
• Familiarity with labor laws, pensions, and contractual standards
• Strong ability to communicate with employees and clients from a wide range of social/economic conditions and cultural backgrounds

Interest and Application

Please take some
time to learn more about us and our services by visiting our website at www.edgewood.org. Please send resume with salary history and cover letter describing why you are the ideal candidate to : resumes@edgewood.org , or fax to (415) 566-3039
or mail to:

Edgewood Center HR,
1801 Vicente St
San Francisco, CA 94116.

Edgewood is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
employer. Personnel decisions regarding applicants for employment are made without
regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry,
sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, status
as a Vietnam-era veteran or special disabled veteran, age or citizenship.

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