Organizes, assigns, schedules, supervises and evaluates the work of finance staff and with staff, develops, implements and monitors work to achieve objectives. Provides input to the annual departmental budget; processes purchases and other expenditures in accordance with city procedures and monitors department performance against the annual budget. Participates in developing, implementing and evaluating plans, processes and procedures to achieve established goals and objectives in accordance with department standards; prepares and maintains a variety of records and reports.

Interviews and participates in selecting new finance staff; supervises and evaluates staff performance; establishes performance requirements and personal development targets; regularly monitors performance and provides training, coaching and mentoring for performance improvement; recommends performance recognition when warranted; and with management concurrence, implements the progressive discipline process to address performance deficiencies.

Provides day-to-day leadership; works with staff to ensure a high-performance, customer service-oriented work environment which supports achieving the city’s and department’s missions, objectives and values regarding teamwork, mutual trust, and respect; applies best practices and quality assurance processes to assigned areas of responsibility; enforces the maintenance of safe working conditions and ensures safe work practices are followed by staff. (Refer to job description for complete list of duties and qualifications).