Job Description

Posting Expires: Feb 16, 2025, 11:59:00 PM

Minimum Salary: $167,608.00    Maximum Salary: $226,763.00

Salary offers will be made within the posted range. Placement within the range will be determined based on your similar work experience. The Port considers work experience to be similar if the scope and level of responsibility of your prior positions match the job being offered.

Some of what you’ll be doing:

As an Assistant Director, Revenues Administration, you will be a member of the Accounting and Financial Reporting (AFR) department senior leadership team and will be responsible for developing and executing business strategies and operational goals/objectives related to the Port of Seattle’s centralized revenues administration operations and related enterprise-wide accounting system and sub-systems.

• You will provide leadership to staff in the Port’s centralized revenues administration department, including Billing, Accounts Receivable (AR), and Credit & Collection.
• You will provide continuous performance management, employee feedback, address performance issues, and conduct performance evaluations.
• You will provide guidance and strategic direction to ensure revenue recognition and cash receipts are administered accurately and timely in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), laws and regulations, Port’s policies, and executed lease terms.
• You will procure, manage, and resolve performance issues involving contracts with external parties providing revenue administration services.
• You will guide direct reports in managerial positions, ensuring they provide hands-on leadership to professional staff, including review and approval of complex monthly journal entries and reconciliations for revenues administration and ensure related financial activity is accounted for in compliance with GAAP.
• You will also offer guidance to indirect reports, drive ongoing operational improvements, align with Port strategies, and manage department budget planning.
• You will respond to pertinent findings and auditor recommendations, and work with both internal and external legal counsel to resolve audit issues. You will present information to and address audit matters with the Audit Committee as required.
• You will monitor and interpret changes in accounting standards, laws, regulations, banking/merchant services industry regulations and guidance related to revenue administration and evaluate impact to the Port.
• You will facilitate collaboration with various Port teams to proactively identify opportunities to improve financial systems, business processes, and application of technology solutions.
• You will align and oversee functional staff to support enterprise accounting system expansions, upgrades, maintenance, and testing involving the core Financials system module, online invoice/presentment portal, ancillary revenue subsystems and various banking/merchant services related payment gateways.

Who you are:

• Experienced – You have six (6) years of accounting/financial management experience including responsibility for accounting operations and systems related to accounts receivables, billing, revenue recognition, credit and collections, and/or financial reporting, to include three (3) years of supervising staff and managing a function related to accounting operation and system and/or financial reporting. You possess an active Certified Public Accountant (CPA)  certification.
• Desired – We hope you have a bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or business administration.
• Committed to Equity – You will apply equity and exemplify shared values, behaviors, and practices in all aspects of the work.  At the Port of Seattle, equity is a daily responsibility and a foundational expectation for all Port employees.
• Expert – You have extensive knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting standards issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) or Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB), internal controls, and emerging technologies. You are experienced in implementing and upgrading financial systems from a leadership perspective. You are skilled in staff leadership, performance management, and providing direction and feedback.
• Strong Leader – You possess highly effective leadership skills necessary to direct a large and diverse group of high performing employees. You can apply systems thinking and link departmental goals and initiatives with enterprise strategies and objectives.
• Efficient Communicator – You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to garner trust and build strong, credible relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels. You also have excellent presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex financial information to non-technical audiences in a variety of public and private settings.
• Analytical Problem-solver – You have strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. You exercise professional judgement and decision making and can tolerate ambiguity, resolve conflicts and manage multiple projects, often with competing priorities under tight deadlines.

What else you need to know:

• Work Schedule – Your normal work schedule will be Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (40 hours per week). Slightly more flexible start and end times are available in this role.
• Work Environment – This work will take place in a hybrid/in-office setting at Management’s discretion.
• Washington State Residency Requirement – Employees must establish a residence in Washington state within 30 days of their first day of employment and must maintain a residence in Washington State during their employment with the Port of Seattle. If a position is eligible to telework, work performed while teleworking must be performed in Washington State.

How to Apply

Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: #finance, Accounting, assistant director, cpa, and director. Salaries: 100,000 and above.

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