Director of Accounting

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About the Position:

As the Director of Accounting, you will manage and lead professional accounting staff within the CDOT Center for Accounting (CFA). You will be responsible for providing overall leadership to the professional accounting staff and directly supervising the CDOT Controllers that are leading individual accounting work units. In addition, you will approve hires of employees for the CFA, review and approve performance appraisals, perform coaching/disciplinary actions, and make recommendations/approvals for promotions and transfers. You will lead the following functions and processes within CDOT’s Accounting organization:

• Provide overall leadership and direction for the Accounting organization.
• Manage the priorities of the position’s direct reports and their work units.
• Set the strategic direction of the CFA and facilitate implementation of the Work Force Assessment Roadmap of improvements (in customer service, skill building, technology application, and specific project work).
• Develop and support a comprehensive culture and environment of compliance and collaborate with other compliance related positions within CDOT.
• Assess risk and identify opportunities to improve processes and reduce risk. Develop and implement programs and initiatives that support the CFA, the broader Division of Accounting and Finance, and ultimately CDOT. Examples include programs such as financial fraud prevention and detection analytics and remediation, continuous process improvement by procedural changes, as well as application of technologies in workflow, document retention, data analytics, and records retention.
• Serve as the responsible liaison to CDOT’s CFO and team members for all accounting functions. In addition, will serve as one of the primary points of contact for regional transportation directors, business managers, and multiple CDOT and state business partners to provide excellent customer service and address questions related to all accounting functions.

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