Executive Director of Accounting for Business Services

The role and its function are part of the Accounting Business shared service model. A Team Member in a shared service structure works within a dedicated business unit (including people, processes, and technologies) structured as a centralized point of service and focused on defined business functions. These units typically serve multiple business groups enterprise-wide and typically have established Service Level Agreements.

• Directs the preparation of timely and accurate financial statements, audit reports, and management reporting that clearly reflect the financial position and performance of gaming operations and affiliated business entities.
• Partners effectively with casino Team Members, managers, contractors, outside agencies, and other enterprise entities to ensure compliance with regulatory and financial requirements of the casino gaming and enterprise entities.
• Provides executive oversight and cross-functional alignment for procurement-related controls and financial objectives, partnering with the Director of Supply Chain Management to support inventory control, buying power, and vendor governance.
• Provides executive oversight of Cash Services and Vault departments for gaming operations, ensuring effective controls, regulatory compliance, security, and operational continuity.
• Leads annual financial statement audits, agreed-upon procedures engagements, and regulatory examinations, coordinating timely responses and successful resolution of findings.
• Maintains the chart of accounts to ensure integrity, efficient account usage, and effective financial reporting.
• Maintains and reconciles balance sheet accounts.
• Oversees liquidity, working capital, cash positioning, and treasury activities to safeguard funds and optimize financial returns in accordance with approved policies and controls.
• Partners with ERP product owners and shared services leaders to improve accounting systems, strengthen controls, and streamline processes.
• Oversees all financial accounting, related reports, and associated paperwork.
• Prepares debt compliance calculations and ensures compliance with debt covenants.
• Makes monthly tribal distributions and ensures compliance with debt covenants, internal controls, and allocation plan governance.
• Ensures the gaming operation’s success for any internal, external, or NIGC annual audits.
• Ensures compliance with the Minimum Internal Control Standards as set forth by the NIGC in conjunction with risk management and compliance.
• Ensures accounting operations and financial reporting comply with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), applicable regulatory requirements, and established internal controls.
• Hires, trains, develops, empowers, coaches, counsels, conducts performance and salary reviews, resolves problems, provides open communication vehicles, disciplines, and recommends terminations as appropriate.
• Builds a work environment that promotes teamwork, partnership, recognition, mutual respect, collaboration, performance feedback/management, and Team Member satisfaction while role modeling the company values, behaviors, and culture.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field.
• Twelve years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including substantial leadership experience in gaming, are strongly preferred.
• CPA designation preferred; active or expired status is acceptable.
• Advanced proficiency with enterprise accounting systems, ERP platforms, financial reporting tools, and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Advanced knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, rules, and procedures, including GAAP, Title 31, gaming regulations, Minimum Internal Control Standards, and NIGC requirements.
• Proven strong supervisory and management skills.
• Must be 21 years of age or older.
• Must apply for, receive, and maintain a Gaming License from the Tribal Gaming Agency.
• Must also apply for, receive, and maintain a Tribal Key License through the State of CA Gambling Control Commission.
• Native American hiring preference applies.

• External (Strategic) Awareness: Having the ability to put things in context and think broadly. Involves consideration and understanding of future business needs within a changing (external) environment (social, political, economic, and related industries, and technology), how processes, methods, and resource requirements might be affected by future trends and developments, and developing long-term goals and strategies extending over a significant time span (i.e., 3-5 years).
• People Development: Having the ability to assess skill strengths and weaknesses of individuals and teams in order to determine what actions are appropriate to build and/or improve the needed skills.
• Achievement Orientation: Being persistent and showing perseverance in achieving concrete and tangible results out of personal responsibility; getting optimum results from situations; being ready to take action and show tenacity in case of obstacles or resistance.
• Oral Communication: Shaping and expressing ideas and information in an effective manner.
• Written Communication: Expressing ideas and opinions clearly in properly structured, well-organized, and grammatically correct reports or documents; utilizing language and terminology that is understandable for the reader.

• Team Member is required to have close visual acuity to detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, estimate, and assess as needed. Allowing the Team Member to perform activities such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; and other activities.
• Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is required to communicate, detect, converse with, discern, convey, express oneself, and exchange information as needed.
• The Team Member is required to sit and use arms/hands (or equivalent) to operate, activate, prepare, inspect, place, detect, and/or position as needed.
• The Team Member is required to work in a stationary position, move, and traverse as needed.
• The Team Member may use their senses to detect, distinguish, and/or determine changes in their surroundings.
• Occasional physical activity may require Team Member to move, transport, position, install, and/or remove up to 25 pounds. Beyond 25 pounds, assistance equipment is required. Physical work is not a primary part of the job (more than 70%).

• While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is exposed to tobacco smoke, moving mechanical parts, and fumes or airborne particles.
• If applicable to job duties, the Team Member may be exposed to human blood, bodily fluids or other potentially infectious substances. Exposure prevention training is provided before the start of employment or within the first ten (10) days of employment. Hepatitis B vaccinations are available at no cost.
• The Team Member is subject to indoor environmental conditions, which provide protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The Team Member is subject to outside environmental conditions and to wet and/or humid conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

• This job description does not list all the duties of the job. Management may instruct you to perform other tasks or functions.
• The requirements listed in the Physical Requirements and Working Conditions sections above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to perform this job successfully. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel classified as such. Upon request, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and/or for sincerely held religious beliefs, unless doing so poses an undue hardship.
• You will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description.
• Management has the right to revise this job description at any time.
• The job description is not a contract for employment.