Chorus America · 14 hours ago
Controller
St Louis, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$110K/yr - $130K/yr
8+ years expChorus America is the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, one of the leading American orchestras, seeking a Controller to oversee finance and accounting operations. The role involves managing a team, ensuring compliance with financial regulations, and optimizing financial processes to support the organization's mission of enriching lives through music.
CommunitiesNon ProfitTraining
Responsibilities
Oversee the accounting and finance operations, providing strategic analysis, executive support, and optimization of financial systems and processes
Manage the accounting and payroll team, ensuring accuracy and timeliness across areas of responsibility
Drive the annual budgeting process and serve as a subject matter expert, consulting with department leaders and providing insight to executive leadership to ensure an effective process and a balanced budget
Ensure financial reporting is completed accurately on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis
Oversee accounts payable processes, expense reimbursements, credit card allocation processes, and appropriate and required documentation of processes
Oversee company retirement plan contributions and upload funds to retirement plan, ensuring compliance
Oversee internal audit processes and serve as primary liaison with external auditors during audit periods
Ensure that all financial operations are conducted in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles and state and federal laws and regulations
Coordinating with the public accounting firm, ensure the preparation of 990 tax returns for SLSO, Encore and SLSET
Provide insight and reporting during insurance renewal processes, retirement plan year-end and compliance testing time periods
Support grant application processing, including completion of financial information sections of grant reports
Develop new and updated processes and policies to ensure the organization streamlines and stays up to date on the latest best practices, requirements and laws
Work closely with other teams to understand challenges and identify ways to improve organizational support
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in accounting, business administration, or related field
8+ years of advanced accounting experience, with a proven track record in a leadership/management role
Minimum of 3 years of non-profit accounting experience
Active CPA license required
Strong ability to motivate a team and achieve successful results through others
Proficient in Word and Excel
High degree of accuracy and ability to meet deadlines
Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to effectively interact with all levels in the organization
Ability to maintain confidentiality and work with confidential data
Preferred
Public accounting experience preferred
Experience managing payroll preferred
Accounting software such as Financial Edge preferred
Company
Chorus America
Chorus America is the advocacy, and leadership development organization.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Catherine Dehoney
President and CEO
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