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The Executive Leadership Council is the preeminent member organization for the development of global black leaders. Comprised of more than 800 current and former corporate black CEOs, board members and senior executives at Fortune 1000 and Global 500 companies, entrepreneurs leading top-tier firms, and recognized thought leaders, we open channels of opportunity for the development of black executives to positively impact business and communities.

Position Overview

The Assistant Controller is responsible for assisting the Controller in directing the organization's accounting functions including cost, payables, and reporting. This roles contributes to the development and maintenance of financial reporting, planning and budgeting systems while overseeing the preparation of periodic reporting and required legal filings. This role also helps to ensure that all corporate and required accounting policies and procedures are documented and followed by the organization. As the Assistant Controller, they will oversee the day to day of the accounting staff and send reports to the Controller.

Essential Job Functions & Key Outcomes

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

• Prepare financial reporting materials for corporate and foundation grants.
• Prepare other financial reports and metrics as needed.
• Provide financial analysis and operational support for staff, as well as guidance on all required policies and procedures.
• Direct preparation of and approve monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
• Prepare month end close and compile financial statements and supporting schedules.
• Assist ELC's leadership in the annual budgeting and planning process.
• Aid implementation and guarantee adherence to accounting policies and procedures.
• Facilitate to ensure a competent, trained staff through regular assessment, development, and goal setting.
• Work with outside auditors to prepare schedules and documents for annual tax filings.
• Support the oversight of all year-end audit schedule preparations.
• Work closely with management to review all financial plans and compare to actual results with a view to identify, explain, and correct variances as appropriate and forecast any additional unplanned expenses.
• Assist in ensuring the integrity of the overall daily accounting operations consistent with GAAP, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, grants accounting, payroll, and general ledger maintenance.
• Establish relevant and timely reports on financial data analytics like the monthly flash report, key financial metrics, and actual spend against budgets/outlook.

GENERAL LEADERSHIP & DUTIES

• Supervise and develop staff to deliver programs and initiatives on time and within budget to meet technical and quality standards; manage direct reports' performance to achieve strategic initiatives/goals.
• Promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality improvement.
• Contribute to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adhere to department policies, procedures, quality standards, and safety standards.
• Maintain current professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing professional networks, and participating in professional associations.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Education, Experience & Credentials

• Previous supervisory experience
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or other relevant academic discipline
• CPA Certification is required
• Experience with all aspects of finance function including accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting
• A minimum of 5 years experience in finance or accounting in a professional association or similar environment

COMPETENCIES

• Communication & Interpersonal Effectiveness: Effectively and appropriately interacts and communicates with others to build positive, constructive, professional relationships; tailors communication style and messages based on the audience; seeks to understand others' points of view, looking at verbal and non-verbal cues to encourage open and honest discussions; uses clear, precise, and error-free language; invites and encourages others to participate in discussions; identifies and helps to resolve interpersonal conflict between team members; does not jump to conclusions or act on assumptions.
• Technology: Proficient with Microsoft productivity suite, financial management software, expense management software, and other functional software relevant to area of responsibility.
• Culture Management: Brings organizational values to life using personality, uniqueness, and the creation of shared vision; demonstrates core values and encourages others to do the same; ensures that individuals and teams are working in a manner that is consistent with organizational values.
• People Leadership: Inspires, motivates, and empowers people to deliver organizational goals, while also delivering value back to employees, including coaching, mentoring, and monitoring employee performance; helps team members accomplish goals and objectives; manages project outcomes, both positive and negative, by providing feedback and support in a sensitive and clear manner; continuously encourages employee development by exposing staff to learning opportunities; actively consults with HR on best practices; adheres to HR performance management policies and procedures; notices and puts an end to office politics.
• Strategic Leadership & Execution: Uses vision to think beyond the immediate situation and explore multiple potential paths; ensures that organizational goals are met by executing, monitoring, and adhering to the organizational action plan; implements new initiatives or adapts existing department initiatives to better meet the needs of the organizational mission and vision; communicates departmental goals to ensure short- and medium-term goals are achieved; displays a 'can-do' attitude for achieving results and encourages others to work in a manner that will meet or exceed the desired objectives or results; demonstrates ability to adapt decision making style based on the situational circumstances.
• Resilience & Managing Uncertainty: Adjusts thinking and behavior in order to adapt to changes in the job and work environment with limited stress; cultivates a culture that views uncertainty as an opportunity to learn and grow and encourages change and constant innovation; respectfully acknowledges the fears and concerns of others when faced with uncertainty and takes actions to mitigate negative impacts of change.
• Problem Solving & Decision-Making: Identifies problems and uses logical analysis to find information, understand causes, and evaluate and select best possible courses of action; seeks information and input to fully understand the cause of problems; takes action to remove obstacles and address problems before they impact performance and results; initiates the evaluation of possible solutions to problems; assesses risks before making a decision; does not take unnecessary risks; effectively navigates through ambiguity, using multiple data points to analyze issues and identify trends.
• Mission Alignment & Awareness: Has a passion for and commitment to opening channels of opportunity for the development of Black professionals to positively impact business and local communities; contributes to the organization by understanding and aligning actions with the organization's goals, core functions, and values.
• Creativity & Innovation: Thinks beyond the confines of traditional models to recognize opportunities and find new and better ways of doing things; questions common practice and contributes to improvement of processes and outputs; proposes novel ideas; utilizes appropriate brainstorming techniques to generate ideas; researches current thinking and shares ideas; explores different alternatives that would achieve a similar output, with the goal of achieving process simplification or efficiencies.
• Relationship Building: Develops and maintains internal and external trusting, professional relationships, including using listening and understanding to build rapport; recognizes the business concerns and perspectives of others and works in a manner that is mutually beneficial; consistently communicates and shares information with others; interacts effectively with people of diverse backgrounds; develops a reputation as a neutral, approachable professional within the department, business units and external contacts; establishes external networks with individuals who can be directly beneficial to the achievement of work-related goals.
• Professional Accounting Standards, Requirements & Procedures, Understanding & Compliance: Ensures the accuracy of financial transactions and reports; oversees that the department conforms to accounting standards, requirements and procedures, and remediates issues in a timely manner.
• Risk Management: Assesses the degree of risk in plans or actions and takes appropriate action to mitigate them or make contingency plans to limit the magnitude of risk, including having the insight and appreciation of organizational needs, priorities, goals and seeing that actions support those goals; demonstrates ability to describe and understand the risks related to a situation or activity; uses past experience and best practices to identify issues, potential problems, and risku mitigates in advance those factors that could interfere with productivity and operational continuity and creates a contingent plan for the risk.
• Organizational Finance Policies, Compliance & Maintenance: Assists in the continuous development of the organization's finance policies; encourages others to comply with all organizational regulations, policies, and processes in terms.
• Planning & Results Orientation: Organizes and executes work to meet organizational goals and objectives while meeting quality standards and following organizational processes; ensures individual performance does not negatively impact the performance of others; recommends additional resources that would improve effectiveness and helps others access required resources; identifies opportunities to improve work processes and efficiency; contributes to setting work priorities and direction; identifies in advance when intended results may not be achieved; takes initiative; is not satisfied with the status quo.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Works well cross functionally and with others on the team to achieve personal goals, team goals, and organizational goals; takes responsibility for individual actions in order to achieve consistent results; fosters team camaraderie, collaboration, and cohesion; understands the impact of one's actions on the ability of their team members to do their jobs; respects the differences other team members bring to the table by openly seeking others' opinions; makes suggestions to improve team engagement and effectiveness; supports implementation of team decisions; professionally gives and seeks feedback in order to achieve common goals.
• Ethics & Integrity: Earns the trust and respect of others through a consistent commitment to integrity, honesty, and professionalism in all interactions.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Work requires frequent ability to comprehend direction and adhere to policies or established procedures, ability to use logic to make sound decisions, ability to interpret and analyze data, ability to gather and organize information for a wide variety of audiences, ability to read and write a variety of materials, and ability to adapt well in the face of workplace stressors.
• Work involves frequently sitting for extended periods of time, frequently talking or hearing, frequently operating a computer, and occasional light physical effort (lifting, pushing, pulling, carrying, etc.) objects weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Hybrid Role requiring travel up to 10% and in office time.
• Work is performed in an interior office setting which has no adverse environmental conditions expected.

The Executive Leadership Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on an individual's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as defined by federal, state, and local law.

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