County Cash Manager (Department Manager II)

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The County Cash Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day cash management operations of Johnson County Kansas.  This position ensures the County maintains adequate liquidity to meet financial obligations, while effectively managing idle funds/investment portfolios in accordance with county policies, state laws, and public fund investment guidelines.  The Cash Manager plays a key role in optimizing cash flow, safeguarding public funds, and supporting fiscal transparency and accountability.

Job Duties include:

• Manage short-term and long-term investment portfolios in accordance with Kansas statues, the County’s Investment Policy, industry best practices, and “expanded powers” investment requirement.
• Continually review, evaluate and enhance systems and procedures for making investment decisions and tracking and managing cash and investments
• Act independently within established investment policy, procedures, and guidelines to develop, recommend, or execute investment programs and strategies.
• Develop and monitor short- and long-term cash forecasts for all funds.
• Develop, monitor and review investment strategies, techniques, and instruments through regular contact with other industry professionals and through internal and external research.
• Maintain knowledge of and ensure compliance with current legislation and County policies regarding cash management and investing.
• Examine and monitor legislative, regulatory and economic developments relating to the asset management industry for cash and fixed income market
• Provide complete accrual, amortization and accretion of investments on a quarterly and annual basis and prepare the necessary work papers and journal entries.
• Maintain effective dialogue with brokers, banks, and industry professionals to discuss the markets, the portfolio, portfolio objectives, portfolio performance, and portfolio goals.
• Maintain various historical records on cash flows, cash balances, investment performance, and similar information relative to the cash and investment function.
• Ensure that content relative to the cash management and investment functions remains current on County websites and other literature.
• Maintain current procedures documenting all daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual cash and investment functions and ensure the Cash Manager’s backup has a current copy and is briefed and trained on all changes.

Performance reporting and interfacing with strategic partners:

• Prepare and present quarterly portfolio performance updates to the Investment Review Group, a committee consisting of community volunteers, a County Commissioner liaison and County staff.
• Provide budget and cash management information to BFP, CMO, BOC, TFM senior management, the Revenue Estimating committee and other stakeholders as needed.
• Prepare audit work papers and financial schedules necessary for internal and external audits and the preparation of County financial reports and work with the auditors as needed.
• Annually apply for and maintain expanded powers investment authority form the Pooled Money Investment Board. This authority adds in excess of $2M investment income annually to the County.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in the following field(s) of study: Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or related field is required. Seven (7) years’ increasingly responsible government or corporate cash management experience managing large (>$100M) portfolios and seven (7) years of fixed income investment management experience are required. 

Preferred:

Master’s degree in the following field(s) of study: Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or related field and Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and/or Certified Cash Manager (CCM) are preferred. Also, experience with fund accounting and government finance practice is preferred.