Now hiring: City of Asheville searching for new HR director, finance director

The City of Asheville has posted job openings for two key positions: human resources director and finance director. You can find them here. As you’ll recall, the city’s former HR director, Lisa Roth, and three other employees in the city’s HR department face felony fraud charges.

An excerpt for the HR directorship:

Performs complex and highly responsible professional administrative work involving the planning, development, and maintenance of an audit program for the evaluation of management and fiscal controls of City activities. Work involves examining and verifying accounting records and fiscal transactions for compliance with accepted accounting methods, and studying program procedures for efficiency and effectiveness. Work derives from the need to continually update and improve procedures in an effort to make City Government more cost effective. The employee works closely with departmental managers, finance staff, and employees, as well as with the contracted auditing firm, in the presentation of findings and recommendations resulting from the audit examination. Considerable independent judgment and initiative must be exercised in selecting audit methods, determining the depth of analysis, scheduling audits throughout the City, and recommending changes in accounting systems, procedures, and policies. Work is performed under general supervision of the Chief Financial Officer and some work may be performed under direction of the City Manager, and is evaluated through conferences and review of reports for the effectiveness of duties performed. Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration and 3+ years of progressively responsible experience in auditing or accounting, preferably including work with governmental accounting systems.