1. Four years of professional experience in accounting, including at least two years of responsibility for supervising professional accounting/fiscal staff; or,
2. two years of experience performing duties equivalent to an Accountant-Auditor III with Santa Barbara County, including or supplemented by at least two years of supervisory responsibility for supervising professional accounting/fiscal staff; or,
3. a combination of training, education, and experience that is equivalent to one of the employment standards listed above and that provides the required knowledge and abilities.
Additional Qualifications: Possession of valid California Class C Driver's License may be required.
Knowledge of: principles of governmental accounting and budgeting, public administration, management, and supervision; financial and operational auditing standards and techniques; fiscal monitoring and control mechanisms; federal, state, and local codes, rules, and regulations controlling and influencing County fiscal operations; principles and practices of supervision; principles and practices of project management.
Job Description: This class will typically be found only in departments with a high degree of fiscal risk exposure to the County. Characteristics of such departments are: large budgets with complex funding, including grants, pass-through revenues, blended funding, and billable fee-for-service revenues. Incumbents are responsible for managing fiscal functions of the department, including proper accounting for costs and distribution of public monies; for establishing goals, standards and policies to ensure the integrity of departmental fiscal operations; and for maximum recoverability of revenue for services rendered. This class is distinguished from the Business Manager class series in that its sole responsibility is for a department's fiscal matters, whereas Business Managers have other responsibilities in addition to fiscal, such as human resources, information systems, facilities management, etc.
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Definition: Under administrative direction, directs and
administers fiscal programs in a department; exercises primary
control over the operating budget of the department; and performs
related duties as required.
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