Date Posted - November 6, 2025
F/T or P/T - part time
Hours per Week (if P/T) - 10
Salary - $27.00
Position Type - Financial Staff
Invitation to Serve - In our Synod, we'll try anything to equip leaders who attend to God's creative, emerging future.
Housing Option - N/A
Housing Information - The Synod’s office is in Bloomfield Hills, MI. The controller role can be remote from any location within the bounds of the Synod of the Covenant (roughly Ohio and Michigan).
Benefits - Salary and Benefit through the Memo of Understanding.
Job Description (PDF) - https://greatlakescallfinder.org/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/1-a3a3213b56ee65da7e4d2b900a41fb27/2025/11/25-11-1-Controller-Position-Description.pdf
Job Description -
Responsibilities
- Ensure that all transactions are reported to the Bookkeeping Service in a timely
manner, ensuring accurate monthly financial statements.
- Review monthly statements to ensure completeness and accuracy and report monthly actual income
and expenses, those budgeted and year-to-date, to staff, the Leadership Team, and the Finance
Committee.
- Approve payments.
- Facilitate deposits, transfers, and withdrawals from bank and investment accounts.
- Report monthly financial position, including income, expense, and balance sheet, to the
Finance Committee and report the same quarterly to the Synod Assembly.
- Provide a detailed current financial report to staff and committees as requested.
- Provide financial forecasting reports.
- Oversee accounts payable and receivable.
- Ensure that reconciliation of ledger and bank account are done.
- Calculate and facilitate payments to Campus Ministry partners.
- Facilitate scholarship and grant distributions.
- Participate with the Finance Committee in annual budget creation and provide
oversight for compliance with the SOC budget.
- Consult and offer banking and investment input to the Finance Committee.
- Ensure that SOC complies with banking regulations.
- Consult with SOC accounting firm to facilitate annual financial review.
- Work with Finance Committee to implement all of the auditor’s recommendations.
Relationships
The Controller will be the primary liaison to the Finance Committee, its subcommittees, external service providers, payroll service, and auditors. The Controller will provide letters of engagement where required, as approved by the Assembly or directed by the Head of Staff. The Controller will provide appropriate documents for the approval and signature of the Corporate Treasurer when necessary. The Controller is a paid Synod staff member and an ex officio member of the Finance Committee with voice but no vote.
Accountability
The Controller is accountable to the Synod Assembly through the Synod Executive/Head of Staff.
Meetings
The Controller shall ordinarily be present at Synod assemblies and other committee/team meetings when requested. Travel expenses will be paid by the Synod.
Desired Qualifications
- Accounting degree, CPA, or equivalent professional experience
- Ability to interpret and oversee information in QuickBooks.
Salary and Benefits
Salary and Benefit through the Memo of Understanding.
Resources
- The Synod will provide access to phone and email systems, along with access to QuickBooks and other resources relevant to the role.
- The Controller will work out of their home or office in their own locale, with very infrequent trips to the Synod office.
- The Controller shall be bonded at the expense of the Synod.
Note
Applications will be reviewed beginning January 5, 2026.
Denomination - PC(USA)
Administrative Body - The Synod of the Covenant - PC(USA)
Organization - Synod of the Covenant
Organization's Address - 1340 W Long Lake Rd, Bloomfield Township, Michigan 48302
Organization's Website - https://www.synodofthecovenant.org/
Organization's Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SynodoftheCovenant
Organization's YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@synodofthecovenantMI
