Accounting Director Job at City of Clarksville, TN in Clarksville

Salary : $85,267.00 - $127,901.00 Annually
Location : FINANCE and ADMINISTRATION - 1 Public Square Third Floor Clarksville
Job Type: Fulltime
Job Number: 001645
Department: Finance & Administration
Opening Date: 09/29/2025
Closing Date: 10/13/2025 4:30 PM Central

Description
GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB
This is the third of five levels in the Accounting series. Incumbents manage a large finance and accounting function for the city or the accounting function for a specific, large City department such as electric or gas and water. Responsibilities may include compiling and preparing an annual budget; managing budgets; cash flows; analyzing financial data and making recommendations regarding operations; preparing and reviewing necessary grant reporting and annual financial reports; monitoring and implementing changes in financial policies and accounting procedures; reviewing financial statements and reports; and supervising lower-level employees.

***PLEASE NOTE: AT LEAST FIVE YEARS OF SUPERVISORY EXPERIENCE WILL BE REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION.***
Example of Duties
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions:

• Manages staff to include: prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; ensuring staff are trained; ensuring that employees follow policies and procedures; maintaining a healthy and safe working environment; and making hiring, termination, and disciplinary recommendations.
• Manages activities of the accounting function for the City or a large City department, which includes coordinating, administering, updating, and evaluating processes, procedures, systems. and standards; and ensures compliance with Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, codes, and/or standards.
• Reviews internal financial reports, worksheets, general ledger entries, and other documents created by subordinates; identifies, researches, and directs the resolution of issues; ensures deadlines are met; and responds to questions from senior management.
• Assists in preparation for the City's Annual Comprehensive Financial Report and other financial reports in preparation for the annual audit. Prepares and reviews reports, worksheets, and audit materials; responds to auditor questions, and resolves identified issues.
• Assists in the preparation, review, and approval of City budgets.
• Works with the City's outside agencies to ensure effective collaboration.
• Responsible for daily cashflow management, optimizing cash balances and forecasting future cash needs.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.

Typical Qualifications
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Six (6) years of accounting experience.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the job's essential duties.

License and Certifications

• Certified Municipal Financial Officer (CMFO) (Preferred)

Supplemental Information
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of:

• Managerial principles.
• Financial management principles, practices, and procedures.
• Budgeting principles.
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) principles.
• Internal financial control practices.
• Applicable Federal, State, and local laws. rules, and regulations.
• Automated financial systems.
• Report preparation techniques.

Skill in:

• Monitoring and evaluating employees.
• Prioritizing and assigning work.
• Managing a City department's financial operations.
• Evaluating and implementing accounting procedures and systems.
• Implementing procedural improvements.
• Reading, comprehending, and analyzing financial statements.
• Preparing and submitting quarterly and annual reports for various governmental entities.
• Organizing, evaluating, and presenting complex financial data.
• Applying Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations.
• Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to give and receive work direction.

Physical Requirements:
The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound.
• Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.

Please see the City of Clarksville's for applicable benefits information.