Posting Expires: When filled.
Salary Range: $97,159.89-$145,000.00
General Description and Classification Standards:
The Deputy Controller is responsible for the day-to-day management of key operational areas within the Controller’s Office, including Financial Reporting, Grants Accounting, General Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Payroll. This position ensures accurate, timely, and compliant financial operations and reporting, and provides oversight to ensure strong internal controls and operational efficiency.
This is a senior management role that reports directly to the Controller and supports strategic initiatives while ensuring execution of core accounting functions.
Supervision Received:
The direction received is very general and focuses on strategic objectives and is typically collaborative in nature. This is a policy-making level of management and would be considered "upper middle" management. The position reports to the Controller.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: These are typical responsibilities for this position and should not be construed as exclusive or all inclusive.
Oversee daily operations of Financial Reporting, Grants Accounting, General Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Payroll.
Ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) pronouncements, and City financial policies.
Supervise the preparation of the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR), Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR), Single Audit, and related regulatory filings.
Manage the coordination and execution of external audits, including federal funds and pension audits.
Oversee the accurate and timely recording of capital assets, debts, and liabilities.
Monitor and maintain strong internal controls across financial operations.
Support implementation of accounting system upgrades and integrations (e.g., Oracle ERP).
Lead, coach, and develop staff to maintain a high-performing, service-oriented team.
Serve as acting Controller in the Controller’s absence.
The above statements reflect the general duties, responsibilities and competencies considered necessary to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job and should not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements of the position. COA may change the specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities: This is a partial listing of necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the job successfully, it is not an exhaustive list.
Strong knowledge of public sector accounting, audit standards, and financial reporting.
Proven experience managing large accounting teams and complex operations.
Ability to interpret complex financial data and present findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Proficiency in ERP systems such as Oracle and financial reporting tools.
Ability to manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
Excellent leadership, communication, and analytical skills.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
Minimum of 8 years of progressive accounting and reporting experience.
At least 3 to 5 years in a supervisory or management role.
Demonstrated experience managing audits, reporting, and staff development.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (equivalent professional experience may be considered to substitute the Master’s degree on an exception basis)
Experience with municipal government or public sector financial management.
Familiarity with Oracle ERP.
Certifications such as CPA, CGFM, or CPFO are highly desirable.
The City of Atlanta remains a transportation hub, not just for the country but also for the world: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is one of the nations busiest in daily passenger flights. Direct flights to Europe, South America, and Asia have made metro Atlanta easily accessible to the more than 1,000 international businesses that operate here and the more than 50 countries that have representation in the city through consulates, trade offices, and chambers of commerce. The city has emerged as a banking center and is the world headquarters for 13 Fortune 500 companies.
Atlanta is the Capital city of the southeast, a city of the future with strong ties to its past. The old in new Atlanta is the soul of the city, the heritage that enhances the quality of life in a contemporary city. In the turbulent 60's, Atlanta was "the city too busy to hate." And today, in the 21st Century, Atlanta is the "city not too busy to care".
For more than four decades Atlanta has been linked to the civil rights movement. Civil Rights leaders moved forward, they were the visionaries who saw a new south, a new Atlanta. They believed in peace. They made monumental sacrifices for that peace. And because of them Atlanta became a fast-pace modern city which opened its doors to the 1996 Olympics.
Die-hard Southerners view Atlanta as the heart of the Old Confederacy; Atlanta has become the best example of the New South, a fast-paced modern city proud of its heritage.
In the past two decades Atlanta has experienced unprecedented growth -- the official city population remains steady, at about 420,000, but the metro population has grown in the past decade by nearly 40%, from 2.9 million to 4.1 million people. A good measure of this growth is the ever-changing downtown skyline, along with skyscrapers constructed in the Midtown, Buckhead, and outer perimeter (fringing I-285) business districts.
