RGS Senior Advisor: Finance Director

Job Description:

RGS Senior Advisor: Finance Director

Description

Position Description

Are you an experienced public sector finance professional with the technical expertise to step into a Finance Director role and immediately assess financial operations, staffing, systems, internal controls, budgets, and processes?

Are you a strong communicator who can explain complex and sometimes unpopular financial information clearly, diplomatically, and effectively to executives, elected officials, staff, and partner agencies?

Are you excited to work remotely in a dynamic, flexible public service organization while also serving a variety of local government agencies, each with its own culture, priorities, staffing model, and operational needs?

Regional Government Services (RGS) is looking for a skilled Finance Director / Senior Advisor to provide high-level finance leadership, strategic fiscal guidance, project management, and technical financial expertise to RGS partner agencies. This role is ideal for a seasoned public sector finance professional who understands the consultant model, enjoys working across multiple agencies, and who can quickly identify what a finance team does well, where support is needed, and how to align the right RGS resources to meet client needs.

This position may serve as the Finance Director for multiple agencies, support agencies that do not currently have a Finance Director, lead finance-related projects, and oversee or coordinate the work of RGS finance team members assigned to client engagements.

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Note: Work hours are flexible and can range between approximately 20 - 40 hours per week depending on candidate availability.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL:

• Have broad and deep public sector finance experience, including accounting, budgeting, fiscal planning, internal controls, auditing, financial reporting, revenue, and compliance.
• Be able to walk into a client agency, assess the finance operation, evaluate staffing and processes, and identify immediate and long-term priorities.
• Understand California public agency budgeting and accounting practices.
• Have experience with categorical funding, restricted funds, grants, special revenues, and other public sector funding structures.
• Demonstrate strong executive communication skills, including the ability to deliver complex, sensitive, or unpopular financial information with clarity, professionalism, and sound judgment.
• Thrive in a consulting environment that requires adaptability, independent judgment, initiative, and comfort working with multiple agencies and organizational cultures.
• Be able to manage projects, coordinate remote teams, assign work to RGS Advisors, and ensure accountability for deliverables.
• Understand how to assess the strengths of a finance team and determine when additional technical, operational, or leadership support is needed.
• Be comfortable working with smaller public agencies where finance leaders often wear multiple hats and must understand the full finance operation.
• Bring strong technical financial and accounting expertise, with the ability to grow into broader strategic and organizational leadership over time.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively with finance and non-finance audiences.
• Be open to alternative perspectives and able to build trust with clients, team members, executives, and elected officials.
• Understand that RGS operates through a consultant model, where assignments may vary based on client needs, project opportunities, and agency priorities.
• Have strong remote-work skills, including the ability to communicate, manage timelines, and lead teams effectively in a virtual environment.

COMPETENCIES

RGS Competencies

• Adaptability/Flexibility: Responds effectively to multiple demands, ambiguity, shifting of priorities, emerging situations, and rapid change.
• Collaboration: Fosters team communication and dialogue, identifies opportunities to build consensus for team options, decisions, and outcomes.
• Customer Service: Modifies attitude, behaviors, and verbal skills to effectively interact with team members and clients.
• Decision Making: Anticipates and seeks an understanding of the impact and implications of decisions on planned outcome or results.
• Initiative: Identifies and takes appropriate action to address problems and concerns of team members and clients.
• Problem Solving: Proactively finds solutions to difficult or complex issues.
• Results Orientation/Execution: Translates objectives into action plans, including identifying task interdependencies.
• Teamwork: Encourages cooperation, collaboration, and partnerships.

Finance Leadership Competencies

• Professional & Technical Expertise: Applies technical subject matter to the job.
• Allocating Resources: Prioritizes the use of fiscal and material resources to maximize organizational effectiveness.
• Analyzing & Interpreting Data: Draws meaning and conclusions from quantitative or qualitative data.
• Business Process Analysis: Defines, assesses, and improves operational processes and workflow.
• Legal & Regulatory Navigation: Understands, interprets, and ensures compliance with laws and regulations.
• Presentation Skill: Formally delivers information to groups.
• Leading Others: Guides and encourages others to accomplish a common goal.

About RGS
Regional Government Services (RGS) is a unique California public agency serving local governments' consulting, administrative, and project management needs. Our greatest asset is our expert Advisors, who pride themselves on delivering outstanding services to support the mission of our partner agencies.

RGS has developed a highly flexible and adaptive team environment and work culture to provide this expertise. We utilize technology to support a remote workforce of over 100 Advisors. Our Advisors are trained and experienced public-sector professionals from a variety of relevant disciplines. We combine the strength of each Advisor's unique experiences, perspectives, and skills through teaming, leveraging their combined talents to benefit our partner agencies.

As an employer, RGS offers Advisors competitive compensation and benefits, client projects that offer rewarding and challenging work, and extraordinary flexibility. While client interactive work must be done during core business hours, there is flexibility to do other work elements on a personalized schedule to maximize flexibility.

Examples of Duties

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Typical Qualifications

Any combination of training, education, and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and competencies is qualifying. Such qualifications may include:

Education:

• College-level coursework or certification in accounting, finance, business administration, public administration, or a closely related field

Experience:

• Seven (7) years of responsible professional experience in public sector finance, accounting, budgeting, fiscal analysis, or financial administration, including experience at a senior analyst, finance manager, assistant finance director, finance director, or equivalent leadership level

Desirable Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in accounting, finance, business administration, public administration, or a closely related field.
• California public agency finance, accounting, and budgeting experience.
• Experience serving as a Finance Director, Assistant Finance Director or equivalent senior public finance role.
• Experience managing finance projects, budgets, audits, internal controls, financial reporting, and process improvements.
• Experience working with smaller public agencies where finance professionals are expected to perform a broad range of functions.
• Experience managing, coordinating, or assigning work to remote teams or project-based staff.
• Experience presenting financial information to executives, governing boards, elected officials, and non-finance audiences.

Supplemental Information

• $57 - $73 per hour DOQ/DOE
• Paid Time Off benefits are available for employees who regularly work more than an average of 20 hours per week.
• Employer Contribution at 10% of earnings to a 401a deferred compensation plan.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits are available for employees who regularly work more than an average of 20 hours per week.
• Flexible work hours with the understanding that some portion of time will be during core work hours of 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST to deliver finance related services.
• More information here: https://www.rgsjpa.org/employee-resources/rgs-salary-and-benefits/

APPLICATION PROCESS AND SELECTION PROCEDURE:

Applications must be submitted online through this applicant tracking system. Materials must be complete and clearly indicate that the candidate meets the minimum qualifications. Incomplete, late, emailed, and faxed applications are not accepted. Resumes are not considered in lieu of the required employment application.

Certificates, resumes, and/or cover letters must be uploaded with your application through this applicant tracking system.

All statements made on the application, resume, and supplemental materials are subject to verification. False statements may be cause for immediate disqualification, removal from eligibility list, or discharge from employment.

The deadline to apply is July 24, 2026, at 11:59 PM PST.

Appraisal Process - (Pass/Fail) After the closing deadline, applications will be screened in relation to the criteria indicated in this announcement.

This process may also include various interviews and/or a skills assessment exam to rank applications, and to prepare a Qualified Candidate List.

Application - Minimum Qualification Assessment - (Pass/Fail) All completed applications and supplemental questionnaires will be reviewed and assessed for each applicant's ability to meet the minimum work experience, training, and education qualifications.

Remote Screen Interview Exam - (Pass/Fail) Candidates who pass the Remote Screen Interview assessment will be invited to a Remote Screen Interview Examination to evaluate training, experience, and other job-related qualifications for the position. The Remote Screen Interview will be conducted via a video conference platform and is tentatively scheduled for mid-to-late July 2026.

Work Sample Exercise - (Pass/Fail) A work sample exercise may be used to evaluate candidates’ ability to review finance related information, identify variances or concerns, assess what can be improved, and communicate findings clearly to a non-finance audience. The Work Sample Exercise is tentatively scheduled for early-August 2026

Successful candidates will be submitted to the hiring manager of Regional Government Services for further consideration.

All communication and notices will be sent via e-mail. Additional inquiries about the position may be directed to [email protected].

The Regional Government Services is not responsible for failure of internet forms or email in submitting your application. Candidates who may require special assistance in any phase of the application or selection process should advise Regional Government Services by emailing [email protected].

Regional Government Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Closing Date/Time: 7/24/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

Salary:

$118,560.00 - $147,680.00 Annually