ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT:
The City’s Auditing Division promotes an honest, effective, and fully accountable City government. It strives to provide independent, timely oversight of the City’s finances and operations to ensure that City programs are implemented legally, efficiently, and effectively. The Division functions as a safeguard against potential fraud or misuse of City resources. Auditing contributes to deadline-driven documents such as the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Schedule A, and the Per-Pupil Report, which play a crucial role in providing financial and other information to the City Council, City Manager, the investment community, the state and federal governments, and the residents of Cambridge. The Auditing Division uses electronic processing of accounts payable payments and journal entries in order to reduce paper usage and create an efficient method for tracking information electronically.
ESSENTIALDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Reporting directly to the City Auditor, the Director of Financial Reporting is responsible for timely, accurate, and efficient financial reporting for the City of Cambridge, including City’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and federal and state financial reports. The position plays a critical role in providing financial and other information to the City Council, City Manager, the investment community, state and federal governments, and the residents of Cambridge.
Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited, to the following:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to person essential functions.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Ability to access, input, and retrieve information from a computer. Answer telephones and maintain multiple files. May require minimal lifting of up to 10 pounds
WORK ENVIRONMENT: General office environment with air conditioning and fluorescent lighting. Requires attendance at meetings. Noise level can be high as the office is active with phone calls and walk in applicants.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS:
Please upload the following documents to complete your application:
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, a nexus of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Notably, Cambridge is home to two internationally prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to a 2008 census estimate the city population was 105,594. It is the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. Cambridge is one of the two county seats of Middlesex County (Lowell is the other).
The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely up river from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships. The first houses were built in the spring of 1631. The settlement was initially referred to as "the newe towne". Official Massachusetts records show the name capitalized as Newe Towne by 1632. Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns (including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop. The original village site is in the heart of today's Harvard Square. The marketplace where farmers brought in crops from surrounding towns to sell survives today as the small park at the corner of John F. Kennedy (J.F.K.) and Winthrop Streets, then at the edge of a salt marsh, since filled.
