ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

REHABILITATION & REENTRY

Our mission is to enhance public safety across Arizona through modern, effective correctional practices and meaningful engagements.

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) is committed to creating a safe, secure, and humane correctional system. With public safety top of mind, ADCRR and its more than 8,000 officers and professional staff are driven by a heart for public service and a commitment to deliver perfect effort each day. ADCRR is redefining itself as an agency whose daily work centers on transparency, accountability, and fairness.

COMPTROLLER

Job Location:

Address:

Financial Services Division
701 East Jefferson Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85034
https://corrections.az.gov

Posting Details:

Salary:  $86,345.00 - $105,00.00

Grade: 26

Closing Date: 10/17/2024

Job Summary:

Are you a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)? Do you have experience managing accounting professionals? Come join our finance team. Apply today!

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) is looking to fill the Comptroller position. This position is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the financial functions of accounting, fixed assets, grants, payroll, and the Arizona Financial Systems. Also, the Comptroller oversees the timely and accurate completion and submittal of the annual Closing Package (financial data and summaries) to ADOA for inclusion into the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), grant reports submitted to grantors, and Indirect Cost proposal submitted to the federal government. This position serves as a technical advisor to the Assistant Director and to the Deputy Assistant Director and responds to inquiries by agency staff and representatives from other agencies.

Job Duties:

- Manages and directs subordinate managers and professional staff in the performance of departmental support functions including accounting, payroll, systems control, grants, and fixed assets
- Directs staff schedules and assignments
- Conducts performance evaluations, recommends hiring, performs dismissal and disciplinary actions
- Designs, maintains and updates various databases to monitor system errors, reconcile financial data, and generate standard ad-hoc reports for upper management
- Establishes, customizes and maintains the organizational and program structure in financial software; authorizes user access levels and passwords to financial software and Procure AZ accounts payable system
- Develops program directives, policies, procedures, and enforcement standards affecting ADCRR
- Ensures effective internal control structures are in place and enforced
- Provides guidance and consultation of automated accounting systems design, implementation, and compliance with accounting rules and regulations
- Provides expert technical guidance and direction
- Responds to inquiries from other state agencies
- Engages in strategic planning, thinking, researching, reading and interpreting reports, policies, laws and related data
- Drives on State business with possible overnight stays
- Performs other duties appropriate to the assignment

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

Knowledge of:
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) at an expert level
- Federal rules and regulations as applied to federally funded grants, state and private grant management
- Principles, concepts, practices, methods, and techniques of government accounting, internal control structures and fiscal management
- Various databases, spreadsheets, and word processing software to analyze data, produce financial reports, and respond to requests for information
- Reconciliation of bank accounts
- Budget and fiscal report and forms preparation
- Financial records maintenance and formats
- Identification and resolution of financial discrepancies
- Management methods and leadership techniques

Skill in:
- Analysis, interpretation, and communication of financial data
- Organization and accomplishment
- Establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships at all organizational levels including other state agencies
- Maintaining accounting records, automated accounting systems, computers and mainframe systems
- Customer service
- Phone etiquette

Ability to:
- Motivate and manage staff
- Interpret law