Position Description: 

The Controller is responsible for maintaining general ledger accounts and efficiently performing month-end account closing to generate timely and accurate financial reports and balance sheet. Coordinates the accounting, data control, accounts payable and receivables processes for the College and prepares various departmental and consolidated financial reports on a regular basis.  

Major/Essential Functions:  

• Manages the day-to-day accounting functions including maintaining of general ledger accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing and collections, and cash.                           
• Reconciles bank accounts, general ledger accounts and revenue accounts to ensure data accuracy. 
• Performs month-end account closing activities and reconciliations and generates and distributes financial reports on monthly basis. 

• Manages the production of the annual budget and forecasts and clculates variances from the budget and reports significant issues. 
• Monitors CBS operational activities to meet, ethics and guidelines and to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations and accreditation standards. 
• Safeguards College assets and maintains appropriate systems of internal control. 
• Manages debt management and collections. 
• Ensures that financial reporting is maintained in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and that internal reporting commitments are met in a timely and effective manner and manages annual external financial audit(s).   

• Ensures compliance with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Acts (FERPA) and other regulatory financial management security and compliance standards as it relates to the assigned areas of responsibility. 

Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Uses accounting software to maintain records and prepare reports. 
• Assists in the development and maintenance of accounting system that records and reports all financial transactions. 

• Assesses current accounting operations and internal control systems to offer recommendations for improvement and implement new processes. 
• Assists various departments in accounting issues and queries. 
• Prepares and analyze monthly bank reconciliations and general ledger account reconciliations. 
• Prepares monthly review of general ledger for month end close to ensure transactions are properly recorded for financial statement preparation. This includes all asset, liability, revenue and expense accounts for CBS. 
• Recommends, reviews, and monitors compliance with financial policies, procedures and controls.  

• Prepares, monitors, and interprets monthly financial reports and analyses for the CFO. This includes but is not limited to revenue and expense statements, balance sheets, and year-to-date financial statement summaries. 
• Manages the cash requirements of the College. This includes responsibility for reporting to the CFO on cash requirements forecasting, investments, line of credit and monthly reconciliation of all bank accounts. 
• Coordinates interim and annual financial statement preparation and audit activities, as well as other information reports and requests; ensures accuracy and integrity of financial, tax and regulatory reporting.  
• Performs related duties as required. 

Qualifications: 

Required:  

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting from an accredited institution of higher education and three to five years of related accounting experience managing general ledgers, including not-for-profit accounting or the equivalent.   
• Be a committed Christian and in good standing with a local church 

• Be in complete agreement with the doctrinal position of the college and able to sign its doctrinal statement without reservation 

Preferred: 

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting from an accredited institution of higher education and three to five years of related accounting experience managing general ledgers in not-for-profit organizations or higher education Institutions.  
• Licensed CPA  

• Experience with Financial Edge and Raisers Edge and student information systems student accounts software systems.