Assistant City Manager/Finance Director - City of Mountain Brook

TARGET CLOSE DATE:

12/31/2025

PAY GRADE:

Grade 36

TYPE:

Full time

JOB SUMMARY:

The City of Mountain Brook is seeking to hire an experienced Assistant City Manager/Finance Director. This role is responsible for assisting in the planning directing coordinating and monitoring of various financial operations (e.g. property and investment management revenue collection insurance administration) within the city. The Assistant City Manager/Finance Director will handle the preparation and monitoring of the city budgets and handle the responsibility of budget analysis development and oversight. Employees in this position work closely with other city departments and executivelevel staff to develop strategic plans for the city. Employees in this position organize internal employee information (e.g. payroll benefits) prepare and review financial reports coordinate internal audits participate in budget administration and act as the Chief Election Official during City Council elections. As the supervisor of subordinate personnel the Assistant City Manager/Finance Director assigns and reviews work administers performance appraisals provides workrelated feedback and makes recommendations for disciplinary action when needed.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:

The City of Mountain Brook provides competitive pay and comprehensive benefits packages to include medical and dental insurance employersponsored retirement plan (pension) generous paid holidays sick and vacation leave and more.

The pay range for this job is listed below:

Mountain Brook $120619 $187116

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

The following are jobrelated qualifications that are required for employment consideration for this position:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting Business Administration or Finance.

• Experience managing payroll processing for a company or organization (e.g. verification of time in attendance records payroll tax withholding and reporting administration administering benefits).

• Experience supervising employees in the performance of accounting and financial responsibilities (e.g. directing the work of multiple subordinates making final selection and termination decisions training subordinates conducting performance appraisals).

• Experience developing monitoring and managing a departmental budget.

• Experience preparing (e.g. closing monthly books updating subsidiary records) and interpreting financial reports (e.g. reviewing for accuracy and completely analyzing budget variances identifying trends).

• Experience managing the procurement process (e.g. requesting and/or issuing purchase orders complying with applicable bid laws contract development and administration).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

The following are jobrelated qualifications deemed desirable by the City of Mountain Brook. These qualifications may be considered by a hiring agency when reviewing applications and inviting candidates to participate in subsequent steps in the selection processes.

• MBA (Master of Business Administration) MPA (Master of Public Administration) or Master in Accounting

• CPA (Certified Public Accountant)

• Experience managing investments for a company or organization.

• Experience with benefits administration.

• Experience with grant administration.

• Experience developing and administering an organizationwide budget.

• Experience in executive level local government accounting and/or finance.

TYPICAL JOB DUTIES:

• Prepares monitors and administers departmental or organizational budget by reviewing spending trends expenditure reports analyzing financial data and ensuring expenditures are within annual budgetary limits.

• Manages organizational contracts and the administration and reporting of grants.

• Acts as the Chief Election Official during City elections of the five (5) City Council Members and the Mayor.

• Manages the financial operations for the organization through investments policy development guidance and strategic planning.

• Manages the revenue flow of the organization through oversight of the general ledger accounts payable and receivable account reconciliation and auditing.

• Oversees monitors and evaluates insurance lines employee benefits program liability claims etc. to ensure the organization and their employees are adequately protected.

• Supervises staff by assigning and distributing work directing staff in their job duties monitoring progress of work providing feedback and/or training.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Job is primarily sedentary involving sitting for long periods of time but may involve occasional walking or standing for brief periods. Job may also involve occasional light lifting of items or objects weighing up to 25 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work is conducted almost exclusively indoors in an office setting and involves use of standard office equipment such as computer phone copier etc.

EEO STATEMENT:

The Personnel Board of Jefferson Countyprovides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment with the Personnel Board of Jefferson County including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. Each Merit System member city/agencyoperate its own equal employment opportunity policies available on the individual city/agency website.

ACCOMMODATION:

NOTE:

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DISCLAIMER:

This job posting is not meant to be an allinclusive list of the job duties responsibilities or skills and abilities required to do the job and may be changed at the discretion of the Personnel Board at any time.