Principal CPA, Director of Tax (US - Remote)

Description

PURPOSE OF POSITION: Support the company’s liquidity, capital structure, and financial risk management by owning cash flow forecasting, debt covenant monitoring, treasury operations, and insurance administration. This role ensures strong governance, accuracy, and proactive risk visibility for Finance leadership and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), while contributing to sound financial planning, efficient cash management, and effective stakeholder coordination across banking partners, internal finance teams, and external lenders.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Cash Forecasting & Liquidity Planning

• Own short‑ and medium‑term cash flow forecasting models.
• Perform daily liquidity monitoring and variance analysis.
• Ensure adequate funding availability and proactively identify liquidity risks.
• Align cash forecasts with financial forecasts and annual plan assumptions.
• Provide liquidity and financing inputs for budgeting and long‑range planning (LRP).
• Recommend liquidity management strategies and funding timing.
• Maintain enterprise liquidity targets.

Additional Senior Level Expectations :

• Lead the development, refinement, and continuous improvement of short-, medium-, and long-range cash flow forecasting models, ensuring high accuracy and visibility for finance leadership and the CFO.
• Provide strategic insights into liquidity trends, working capital drivers, and funding needs.
• Proactively identify risks and propose actionable mitigation plans.
• Drive alignment of forecasting assumptions across Finance, Accounting, and operational teams, serving as the subject matter expert (SME) on liquidity impacts of business decisions.
• Independently prepare scenario analyses to support capital allocation decisions, interest rate planning, and sensitivity assessments.

Treasury Operations & Banking Governance

• Lead day‑to‑day cash management operations (wires, disbursements, cash positioning).
• Manage banking relationships and account structure; open/close bank accounts.
• Oversee and approve cash movements (e.g., wire transfers).
• Maintain appropriate bank access and disbursement controls.
• Partner with Accounting on cash reconciliations and reporting accuracy.
• Shape and maintain the cash‑movement governance and approval framework.

Additional Senior Level Expectations :

• Oversee daily treasury operations with a focus on strengthening internal controls, optimizing cash positions, and ensuring high quality execution of disbursements and bank transactions.
• Manage complex banking relationships and lead efforts to rationalize and optimize the company’s global bank account structure.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for cash movement governance, developing and maintaining approval hierarchies, user access controls, and compliance standards.
• Identify opportunities for automation and process modernization across treasury workflows and lead implementation of system enhancements or tool upgrades.

Insurance & Risk Management

• Coordinate corporate insurance programs; manage renewals and broker relationships.
• Support claims tracking; optimize coverage and cost.
• Contribute to finance transformation and treasury process improvements.
• Recommend insurance coverage structure and renewal strategies.
• Ensures consistent adherence to treasury controls, SOX/ICFR requirements, and audit standards.

Additional Senior Level Expectations :

• Lead coordination of insurance renewals, supporting negotiations with brokers, evaluating coverage structure options, and preparing financial analyses to inform renewal strategies.
• Monitor claim activity and trends, escalating risk insights to leadership and recommending actions to reduce exposure and optimize cost.
• Partner with Legal, Operations, and Finance to integrate insurance considerations into strategic planning, capital projects, and contractual decisions.
• Champion continuous improvement across treasury, identifying opportunities to streamline processes, enhance governance, and advance treasury transformation initiatives.

Debt, Capital Structure & Compliance Reporting

• Monitor and report debt covenant compliance; own covenant calculations and tracking files.
• Manage interest payment processes and provide forward‑looking coverage forecasts.
• Analyze funding needs, capital allocation, and financing impacts in partnership with Finance.
• Provide debt‑capacity planning inputs.
• Ensure accurate treasury reporting; maintain documentation, controls, and support audits and lender reporting.

Additional Senior Level Expectations :

• Own the full lifecycle of debt covenant monitoring, including calculation review, documentation, lender communication support, and proactive risk identification.
• Partner with Finance to model capital structure scenarios and evaluate the financial implications of refinancing, new debt issuance, or changes in borrowing capacity.
• Prepare high quality treasury reporting packages for leadership, including covenant dashboards, debt schedules, liquidity analyses, and lender reporting deliverables.
• Strengthen treasury controls by maintaining audit ready documentation, supporting internal and external audits, and driving remediation of any process gaps.

COMPETENCIES

• ACCOUNTABILITY- Takes ownership for actions, decisions, and results; openly accepts feedback and demonstrates a willingness to improve.
• BASIC PRINCIPLES - Interacts with people in a way that builds mutual trust, confidence, and respect; adheres to GCI’s Code of Conduct for Employees – the Basic Principles.
• COLLABORATION - Works effectively with others to accomplish common goals and objectives; maintains positive relationships even under difficult circumstances. Supports others through knowledge‑sharing, coaching, and guidance. Works effectively across cross‑functional, fast‑paced environments, building strong partnerships. Successfully manages external relationships, interacting with banking partners, lenders, insurance brokers, and audit teams.
• COMMUNICATION- Conveys thoughts and expresses ideas appropriately and professionally. Communicates financial information clearly to both finance and non‑finance audiences. Translates financial analysis into business relevant insights. Prepares clear, concise, and impactful presentations for senior executives and management.
• COMPLIANCE - Follows internal controls; protects confidential information; abides by GCI’s Code of Business Conduct & Ethics.
• CUSTOMER FOCUS - Demonstrates commitment to service excellence; gives high priority to customer satisfaction.
• RELIABILITY - Consistently follows through on assigned tasks as expected; demonstrates timely attendance at meetings, training, and other work obligations.
• RESULTS - Uses a combination of job knowledge, initiative, sound decision making, innovation, adaptability, and problem solving. Demonstrates high attention to detail, strong execution, and ownership of deliverables. Detail oriented, ensuring precision in calculations, reconciliations, and covenant reporting. Strong adaptability and prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-moving finance environment. Demonstrated ability to build and maintain cash flow forecasts, liquidity models, and scenario analyses with accuracy and precision. Strong understanding of debt instruments, covenant requirements, credit agreements, and capital structure frameworks. Working knowledge of treasury processes including cash positioning, bank account structure, payment operations, and treasury controls. Ability to identify liquidity, operational, and financial risks and proactively propose mitigation approaches. Strong quantitative ability with a commitment to data accuracy. Ability to interpret financial data, assess implications, and provide actionable recommendations for liquidity, debt, and capital planning. Ability to evaluate processes, identify inefficiencies, and support treasury related workflow enhancements. Applies strong financial judgment when evaluating funding, cash movements, insurance structures, or capital planning scenarios. Stays informed on treasury best practices, banking trends, financial regulations, and technology enhancements.
• SAFETY & SECURITY - Supports a safe work environment by following all workplace safety rules and guidelines; complies with applicable Security policies and procedures.
• TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY - Proficient computer skills and MS Office knowledge (e.g., Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel) to complete job duties effectively, such as using the company intranet and to accurately retrieve and input information into database or equivalent. Strong Excel skills, including the ability to use formulas, create dynamic charts, build macros, and automate tasks to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of reporting and model development. Strong financial systems proficiency.

Level Definition

Position Title: Treasury Analyst

Grade: E06

Additional Job Requirements: This is an intermediate level position within the discipline focused on supporting daily cash operations, assisting in cash forecasting, and performing treasury, debt, and insurance tasks under established processes. The role focuses on accuracy, data integrity, and execution while contributing analyses that support broader treasury activities. Demonstrates broad knowledge and proficiency in areas of responsibility. Performs complex tasks and job duties, receiving minimal instruction on routine work and general instruction on new assignments. Works under moderate supervision with latitude for independent judgment. Supports higher level staff in implementing more complex projects.

Minimum Qualifications

• A combination of relevant work experience and/or education sufficient to perform the duties of the job may substitute to meet the total years required on a year-for-year basis
• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Economics, or relevant field.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in financial analysis, accounting, finance, or related background, to include:
• At least one (1) year of financial modeling experience.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or Finance.
• CPA or CFA certifications.
• Knowledge of Oracle or equivalent accounting system.
• Telecommunications experience.
• Relevant telecom industry or job specific certifications.

DRIVING REQUIREMENTS :

This position may require access to reliable transportation for occasional travel between retail store locations, offices, worksites, or other locations as needed.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS and WORKING CONDITIONS:

Work is primarily sedentary, requiring daily routine computer usage. Ability to work shifts as assigned, work in standard office/home office setting, and operate standard office equipment. Ability to accurately communicate information and ideas to others effectively. Physical agility and effort sufficient to perform job duties safely and effectively. Ability to make valid judgments and decisions. Available to work additional time on weekends, holidays, before or after normal work hours when necessary. Must work well in a team environment and be able to work with a diverse group of people and customers. Virtual workers must comply with remote work policies and agreements. The company and its subsidiaries operate in a 24/7 environment providing critical services to Alaskans and may need to respond to public health and safety matters or other business emergencies. Due to business needs employees may be contacted outside of the core business hours to respond to the immediate emergency. As such, you will be requested to provide emergency after hours contact numbers, to include your home and cell phone numbers if you have those services.

Culture, Engagement, and Connection:

At GCI, we foster an environment where the unique perspectives of our employees, customers, and fellow Alaskans are celebrated. We add value to our community by nurturing and empowering each member of our workforce, ensuring equal opportunities for every Trailblazer.

EEO:

GCI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, veteran status, or any other status or classification protected under applicable state or federal law.

DISCLAIMER:

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. All employees of GCI work in support of the GCI Mission Statement and Declaration of Principles which are located on the GCI Career page and Employee portal.