Job Description

Description

Salary: $112,294 - $176,332

Position Grade:

21M

Department: Comptroller's Office

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1503

Location: Downtown - St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position are responsible for managing and providing leadership in financial matters and assets of the City of St. Louis at the direction of the Comptroller. Incumbents direct the daily operations of the Comptroller's Office to ensure all financial transactions are handled in a fiscally appropriate manner so that cash flow to the City is maximized and expenditures for City services are minimized.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Manages the process responsible for issuance and management of City's debt. Develops and refines strategies used to improve and maintain long-term debt rating. Represents the Comptroller on development teams and committees focused on financing for development, revitalization, and securing of grants; represents the city in meetings with rating agencies and others with financial interest. Advises Comptroller and other City department heads and officials; guides financial decisions. Ensures special projects/program objectives and standards are established, attained and congruent with overall goals. Determines performance evaluation standards and procedures to provide information to subordinate staff on individual work performance expectations to ensure complete and objective appraisal of subordinates' performance.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid to upper-level data analysis including the ability to coordinate, strategize, systemize and correlate, using discretion in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations within an organizational framework. Requires the ability to implement decisions based on such data, and overseeing the execution of these decisions. Human Interaction: Requires the ability to manage and direct a large group of employees, which may include firstline supervisors. Oversees and controls employee discipline, selection and allocation, and planning of human resources. Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a personal computer, calculator and/or materials used in performing essential functions. Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as financial statements, audit status reports, appraisals, budgets, performance appraisals, regulations, guidelines and non-routine correspondence. Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; requires the ability to interpret descriptive statistics. Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution. Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or multiple programs. Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury. Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling of objects weighing five to ten pounds, such as legal transcripts. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation. Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as participating on advisory boards.

Qualifications

A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration with emphasis in Accounting, or a directly related field; plus ten years of progressively responsible professional financial experience in a municipal government including at least five years of experience in a high level financial management capacity.

OR

an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Scoring Components and Their Weights

Experience and Training: 100%

May be Subject to:

Background Investigation: Pass/Fail

Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request

When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Veterans Preference Points

To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.

City Residence Preference Points

City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points.

City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.

Accommodations

If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information.

This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.

Job Posting

Nov 3, 2025, 10:40:36 AM