Controller (Remote)

Job Title: Controller                                                            Company: AKI 

Reports To: CFO                                                                    Location:  Remote     

FLSA Status: Exempt                                                           Salary: DOE

Job Summary:

The Controller is responsible for supporting the organization's financial well-being by providing financial reporting and accounting services, preparing growth plans, and directing staff. The Controller directs and coordinates financial affairs according to financial principles and government regulations. The Controller supports the CFO with financial and operational strategies by forecasting cash requirements and staff needs, identifying monetary resources, and developing action plans. The Controller is also responsible for providing financial analysis of operations by evaluating trends, studying revenue opportunities and critical measurements, accumulating resources, and resolving problems.

Essential Job Functions:

• Ensures that adequate internal controls are in place and ensures compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state, and local regulatory laws and rules for financial and tax reporting. 
• Ensures compliance with contract requirements regarding timekeeping, invoicing, and project financial reporting. 
• Supports General Managers/Project Managers with project financial reporting monthly or as otherwise needed.
• Month-end reporting, annual audit review, and special projects as assigned. 
• Manage accounting system controls and internal audits to ensure the accurate and timely production of accounting information and financial reports. 
• Monitors financial performance, assesses the corporation's liabilities and investments for financial risk, and suggests investment strategies by considering cash and liquidity risks.
• Recommends changes and ideas to CFO /VPO regarding policies and procedures and assists in their implementation.
• Review staff work product to include invoicing, cash receipts, payroll, job cost reports, etc. 
• Mentor and develop staff.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field; extensive experience working in a similar capacity may be substituted for a degree. 
• Minimum eight years of professional financial management experience in a related field.  
• Minimum five years in government contracting.
• Expert in Deltek Cost Point in a government contracting environment is required.
• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. 
• Ability to handle highly sensitive, confidential information and situations. 
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must be proficient in basic computer software (i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Participate and contribute to strategic planning efforts to establish the company's growth targets and performance goals.  
• Assist in needed Business Development support to provide subject matter expertise in both opportunity development and project support
• Accountable for supporting ISO and CMMI systems and how their performance contributes to your achievement and the achievement of ISO and CMMI compliance across the organization. 
• Report any issue they see or perceive to be a deterrent to quality and our ISO and CMMI compliance.
• Look for improvement opportunities for ISO and CMMI systems and bring those to management's attention.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Embrace the mission of Akhiok-Kaguyak, Inc.
• Possess excellent writing, communication, listening, and interpersonal skills, including the Ability to work closely with executives, managers, co-workers, staff, and outside contacts.
• Use proper grammar, spelling, vocabulary, editing/proofreading skills.
• Maintain high accuracy and attention to detail in preparing information.
• Possess strong analytical skills to review, evaluate, and synthesize information.
• Possess superior organizational and information management skills and time management.
• Maintain high confidentiality, integrity, and tact in dealing with sensitive information.
• Proficiency with office computer equipment and software, office administration, and procedures.
• Problem-solving and demonstrating initiative to improve processes, procedures, etc.
• Ability to make decisions and exercise good judgment.
• Ability to work under pressure independently with minimal supervision discreetly and confidentially.
• Possess and demonstrate cultural awareness, sensitivity, respect, flexibility, and sound work ethics.
• Ability to travel.
• Position may require extended hours using a computer in an office setting and lifting to 25 pounds.

Physical Demands and Work Environment: 

The work environment and physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.  

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required, sometimes for extended periods, to walk, stand, or sit. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. The employee is occasionally required to climb ladders or stairs; use hands to type, finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and get in and out of vehicles. The employee must occasionally lift and move small or large objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and Ability to adjust focus. The Position will require up to 20% travel.

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his or her supervisor. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the employee in this Position. They are not to be constructed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of a person in this Position. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the direction of Akhiok-Kaguyak, Inc. 

Akhiok-Kaguyak, Inc., is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. 

Akhiok-Kaguyak offers preference to qualified Akhiok-Kaguyak Native Corporation Shareholders and their descendants and spouses and to shareholders of other corporations created pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, in accordance with Public Law 100-241 and Title 43 U.S. Code 1626(g) and Title 42 U.S. Code 2003-2(i).