Job Title: Chief Financial Officer
Supervisor: Superintendent
Terms of Employment: 246 Days
Job Summary
To administer all financial operations within the District to ensure the responsible management of public funds and the highest level of financial integrity. Financial operations include, but are not limited to, Budgeting, Accounting, Payroll, Procurement, Auditing, Grants Management, Financial Reporting, and Long-Range Financial Planning.
Essential Duties
- Assess district financial needs by conferring with staff and community stakeholders and plan accordingly across all financial service areas.
- Lead fiscal, budgetary, and long-range financial planning across all financial operations.
- Serve on the Superintendent's Cabinet.
- Supervise direct reports, including Finance Division Directors, Managers, and Supervisors, and evaluate their performance yearly.
- Provide assistance and support to school principals relative to financial procedures, budget oversight, and compliance.
- Maintain adequate budgetary controls to ensure the wise, appropriate, and transparent expenditure of district funds.
- Provide assistance and support to District administrative personnel and the Board of Education relative to district-wide financial operations, reporting, and planning.
- Enhance professional growth through attendance and participation in seminars and conferences at the local, state, regional, and national level.
Other Duties
Will also perform such other duties and assume such other responsibilities as may be assigned by the Superintendent.
Job Specifications
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required)
- Master's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Educational Leadership, or a related area from an accredited college or university.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) preferred.
- Minimum of five years' experience in a financial management or administrative role with supervisory responsibilities, ideally within a school district or public-sector environment.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and reach with hands and arms; walk; sit; stoop or kneel; crouch or crawl.
Additional Physical Requirements Include The Following
- Physically capable of frequently lifting or moving up to 40 pounds;
- Specific vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus;
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time;
- Manual dexterity for the purpose of using a telephone and data entry;
- Read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids;
- Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone; and
- Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Pay Grade: 312
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator or supervisor. Horry County Schools reserves the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time without prior notice.
