Controller
Location: Houston, TX 77092
Salary: $195,000
Position Type: Full-Time/40hrs per week
Department: Finance & Administrative Services

Job Summary:
The Harris County Flood Control District is seeking exceptional, detail-oriented, and qualified candidates for the role of Controller. The District’s core mission is to mitigate the risk of flooding in Harris County which boasts a population of over 4.7 million and includes the City of Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States. The District’s responsibilities extend to approximately 1,500 channels spanning nearly 2,500 miles, over 60 regional stormwater detention basins covering more than 10,000 acres and several wetlands mitigation banks, such as Greens Bayou.

The Controller will serve as a key financial executive, leading the District’s day-to-day finance operations and overseeing a budget totaling $241 million and a bond program that comprises more than $5 billion in projects and construction. This role demands a dynamic leader with a strong command of public sector finance, operational excellence, and strategic execution.
Reporting directly to the Executive Director, the Controller will manage and mentor a team of up to 53 staff members across core financial functions, including general accounting, accounts payable and receivable, inventory management, and the financial administration of complex state and federal grants programs. The Controller will establish and maintain robust financial systems, internal controls, and compliance frameworks that support transparency, accountability, and long-term fiscal sustainability. This role is pivotal in maintaining the fiscal integrity of the District and supporting its ambitious infrastructure and service delivery objectives. The Controller will be both a strategic partner and a hands-on operational leader, driving excellence across all facets of financial management.

Essential Functions & Duties:
Financial Management & Reporting
• Manage all accounting and financial reporting activities while establishing and enforcing policies, strategies, controls, and reporting systems that ensure the District's financial stability and the predictability of expenditures, especially regarding federal and grant funding strategies.
• Provides status of financial condition by collecting, interpreting, and reporting financial data.
• Manage organizational cash flow forecasting; continuously collaborating with the Chief and Division Directors to assess the financial efficacy of program operations and establish finance and administrative systems to support District operations.
Budgeting, Planning & Operations
• Oversee the District’s annual budgeting as well as operations & maintenance, capital improvement planning processes, as approved by Commissioners Court.
• Manages the development and implementation of goals, objectives, and priorities for each assigned area to ensure alignment with the County‘s strategic plan.
Compliance & Audits
• Ensures compliance with all applicable local, State, and Federal requirements and supports any internal or external audits.
• Ensure that a system of internal project controls and a District-wide risk management framework is maintained, and that best practices for cost control, scheduling, process improvement, and risk management are implemented.
Organizational & Personnel Management
• Assesses and monitors workload, administrative and support systems, and internal reporting relationships for assigned areas of responsibility; identifies opportunities for improvement and directs and implements changes.
• Interviews, hires, directs, and evaluates personnel performance; if required, discipline and/or terminate personnel.
Additional Responsibilities and Support
• Carries out other general responsibilities as may be delegated by the executive management team.
• Attend seminars, conference workshops, and other training programs.
• Assist with division or District projects, as needed.
• Assume additional responsibilities as required, adapting to the District's evolving demands, responsibilities, needs, and objectives.

Education and Experience:
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
• Requires a minimum of five years of verifiable experience in a senior-level accounting or finance role with proven experience working with government agencies.
Required Licenses:
• Requires a Valid Class "C" Texas Driver’s License

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Expert knowledge of accounting principles, financial management, controls, and regulations
• Expert knowledge in budget formulation and spending plan development, including monitoring and reporting.
• Expert knowledge of effective managerial practices and methods.
• Must excel in strategic thinking, be open to new perspectives and better ways to do things, be creative, and manage innovation.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and guide others; build effective, collaborative, and cohesive teams toward accomplishing District and division goals.
• Knowledge of applicable Federal, State, County, and other relevant procurement laws, policies, and procedures.
• Skills in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues, government officials, civic organizations, community organizations, and the public.
• Requires good diagnostic and troubleshooting skills to solve work problems and advise on technical questions and/or difficult work solutions.
• Requires analytical skills in applying guidelines, policies, and precedents and adapting standard methods to fit facts and conditions.
• Ability to effectively prioritize, identify, and solve problems using sound and logical approaches by applying innovative and informed solutions that ensure long-term organizational improvements.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, coordinate, train, support, assign, and evaluate the work of subordinate managers.
• Ability to handle confidential materials with appropriate care, considerable personal tact, and initiative
• Be a self-starter; assume ownership in setting goals, organizing work, and completing assigned tasks.
• Ability to exemplify a professional manner in all circumstances.
• Ability to effectively communicate with coworkers, the general public, industry, and/or governmental representatives.
• Ability to work well under pressure, adhering to tight deadlines and accuracy/quality standards.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision, relative autonomy, and general review.
• Ability to utilize good organizational skills and effectively prioritize and schedule multiple tasks/initiatives.
• Ability to read/comprehend written materials, e.g., policies, procedures, operating instructions, and safety notices.
• Ability to write/record legible notes of activity and accurately complete required forms.

Physical Demands & Environmental Exposure:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:
• Frequent stooping, bending, reaching, lifting, and carrying items up to 11 pounds and occasional lifting to 20 pounds.
• Frequent sorting, filing, shelving, and handling of documents, books, files, file drawers, and related materials and equipment required for clerical operations.
• Frequent driving of a vehicle with automatic controls; occasional ascending/descending stairs; prolonged sitting for extended periods of time.
• Occasionally walking up and down steep slopes of ditches, rough and uneven surfaces, or ground such as sloping terrain, plowed or furrowed areas, or construction sites.
• Work is generally performed indoors in a normal office environment with acceptable lighting, temperature, air conditioning, and noise levels.
• When at field locations, may be exposed to significant levels of heat, cold, moisture, air pollution, wind, dust, wildlife, flying/walking insects, aquatic bacteria, viruses, other microorganisms, vibration, and/or noise in excess of 85 decibels.

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