Finance Manager - Police Department at City of Colorado Springs – Colorado Springs, Colorado

Finance Manager - Police Department

The finance manager oversees and directs all the financial operations of the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD). This role is responsible for budget development, financial reporting, grant management, procurement, accounts payable, and contract administration. This position ensures compliance with financial regulations, oversees the purchasing card program, and manages the department's false alarm ordinance program. Additionally this position provides strategic financial guidance to leadership, developing long-range financial plans, and implementing process improvements.

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As the Police Department Finance Manager, you will:

• Develop, prepare, monitor, and report on CSPD budget.
• Oversee grant lifecycle, including identifying potential funding opportunities, writing grant proposals, managing awarded grant funds, ensuring compliance with grant guidelines, tracking project progress, and submitting required reports to funders.
• Purchase and procurement of all expenditures from a wide variety of sources including budgeted items, federal forfeiture, impact fees, and grants requiring extensive knowledge on purchasing rules and regulations for each source.
• Serve as liaison between subject matter expert team, Procurement Services, and vendors during the life cycle of purchase order, service agreement or contract.
• Work directly with budget managers on day-to-day basis to ensure purchasing and budget guidelines are followed.
• Perform general accounting functions such as reconciliations, journal entries, and subscription/lease tracking to ensure accuracy of the city’s financial reports.
• Manage CSPD’s purchasing card program.
• Perform CSPD’s accounts payable functions to include purchasing requisitions, check requests, change orders, invoices and purchasing card transactions.
• Manage CSPD’s False Alarm Ordinance Program
• Select, train, motivate and evaluate assigned personnel; provides training; works to correct deficiencies and implements discipline and termination procedures.
• Provide strategies and oversight to the bureaus in relation to finance. Identifies stakeholders and processes necessary for advancement of programs.
• Ensure the availability of resources and staff in order to maximize the efficiencies of the various functions.
• Develop and manage long range plans, programs and strategies in relation to finance; establishes goals and objectives; research best practices for continuous improvement; prepare reports, analysis, presentations for Command level staff.
• Other duties include high level, broad, strategic special projects as assigned by the Chief or Deputy Chief.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive knowledge of budget development, financial planning, and reporting principles.
• Comprehensive knowledge of purchasing and procurement regulations
• Knowledge of comprehensive and practical knowledge of general accounting, including reconciliations, journal entries, and financial reporting
• Knowledge of supervision and monitoring performance for a regular group of employees, including providing input or hiring/disciplinary actions and work objectives/effectiveness, performance evaluations, and realigning work as needed.
• Ability to exercise independent judgement and have decision-making abilities
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, orally and in writing
• Ability to establish and maintain effective and professional working relationships
• Ability to be highly organized and detailed oriented
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects, deadlines, and competing priorities.
• Skilled and stakeholder engagement and collaboration with internal and external partners

One year of relevant work experience may be substituted for one year of required education (OR) one year of relevant academic coursework beyond the minimum requirement may be substituted for one year of required professional experience.

• Experience developing an entire budgetary process for a large organization
• Experience managing employees with supervisory experience (second line supervision)
• Experience using PeopleSoft, NeoGov, and Microsoft Office products.
• Experience working in the public sector.
• Experience working in a public safety environment.
• Experience with grants and overseeing grant lifecycles

Please contact CSPD Human Resources at cspdhiring@coloradosprings.gov or 719-444-7447 for any questions about this position.

Pre-employment Requirements: The job offer will be contingent upon successful completion of a polygraph examination, extensive background check, and other pre-employment assessments.

Applicants that have used marijuana or CBD products within 3 months from the date of their application submission will not be eligible for hire. More information about the Colorado Springs Police Department’s Marijuana Use Policy can be found here.

The job offer will be contingent upon successful completion of a polygraph examination, extensive background check, and other pre-employment assessments.

The background check for this position includes a polygraph examination and fingerprinting.