Chief, Local Government Programs and Services Division

Division Chief

With general direction from the Chief Operating Officer, the Division Chief is responsible for the planning, organizing, and directing the work of program services, through subordinate managers and professional level staff members, engaged in local government operations in areas in which the State Controller holds constitutional interests as the Chief Fiscal Officer over the expenditure of public dollars. Local governments include counties, cities, special districts, etc., who receive public dollars for purposes established through law, to perform service within their communities. This position will be a member of the Senior Management Structure of the agency and report to the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief of Staff, and as required by the State Controller, like other division chiefs within the organization. The position will have responsibility for policy development and be the principle decision maker regarding program operations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

(Candidates must perform the following functions with or without reasonable accommodations.)

Specific duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Oversee accounting, fiscal controls, and reporting for the State of California related to Local Governments; formulate long-term and short-term goals and objectives;
• Function as a key policy advisor for local government accounting and reporting programs relative to public funds; accomplish statutory and legislative mandates;
• Superintend the apportionment of public revenues; administer cost programs;
• Recommend resolution of the most complex governmental accounting issues to the Chief Deputy State Controller, the Deputy State Controllers, and/or State Controller. Assist the State Controller on matters of statutory, constitutional and policy authority on high-level policy-making committees;
• Manage professional staff responsible for carrying out statutory and legislative mandates as related to Local Governments;
• Ensure that managers, through their bureaus, develop, review and adopt operational policies and procedures that are consistent with the State Controller's constitutional and statutory obligations as the State of California's Chief Fiscal Officer;
• Formulate goals and objectives; direct and manage local government accounting, fiscal controls, and reporting for the SCO, and ensure that related assignments meet the constitutional and statutory financial responsibilities of the State Controller;
• Provide consultative services to the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Deputy State Controller, the State Controller, the Legislature, the Governor's Office, other governmental entities and private financial institutions regarding accounting and reporting statutes relative to the use of state and/or federal public funds;
• Provide private and governmental agencies with final decisions affecting accounting and reporting procedural requirements of the use of public funds for local entities;
• Formulate positions regarding legislative issues affecting the state's financial health and the State Controller's statutory and constitutional authority to administer fiscal programs as related to local governments;
• Work cooperatively with various jurisdictions and internal senior level management team members;
• Participate in Executive Office discussions and presentations before dignitaries as assigned;
• Travel to and from offsite meeting locations when required.

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.

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